Authorities in Myanmar’s largest cities Yangon and Mandalay have ramped up housing checks in the two weeks since the junta enacted the country’s military conscription… Read More »Junta ramps up guest list inspections in Yangon and Mandalay
With Myanmar’s junta plowing ahead toward a full-scale draft, young men say they are staying indoors to avoid getting dragooned into the army to fight… Read More »Myanmar youths go into hiding to avoid getting forced into battle
The Arakan Army has captured two key military units in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, giving it effective control of Minbya township and putting it in… Read More »Arakan Army captures two junta battalions in Rakhine state
Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government, or NUG, on Monday vowed to hold the perpetrators of extrajudicial killings accountable amid an increase in the number of… Read More »Myanmar shadow govt vows accountability in extrajudicial killings
Amid the news of escalating violence, it’s easy to lose sight of two events in August 2023 that exposed the Myanmar military regime’s vulnerability. First,… Read More »Myanmar’s post-coup economy comes crumbling down
Many of the 42 people who went missing in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state after a landslide buried workers at a jade mine were migrants displaced… Read More »Victims of jade mine landslide were mostly displaced by conflict in Myanmar
Thai authorities arresting a Myanmar arms broker last year confiscated assets owned by the children of junta chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, a legal… Read More »Discovery of junta family assets in Thai raid prompts call for probe
Artillery and landmine blasts have killed at least 51 civilians and severely injured 122 others, including more than 20 children, over the past two months… Read More »Children among 173 casualties from artillery, landmines in Myanmar since August
A recent order requiring anyone buying a SIM card to register their identity is a bid by Myanmar’s military regime to crack down on anti-junta… Read More »Myanmar activists say junta will use SIM card registration to target opposition
Vietnamese firms are confronting political risk from overseas investments as the price of doing business with Myanmar’s brutal military regime, a less predictable partner than… Read More »In Myanmar, Vietnamese firms learn the political risks of backing the junta
