News About Myanmar

During the election period, the State ensures that citizens have the right to vote, and whether they choose to vote or not is entirely the will of the voters, said Acting President and Chairman of the State Security and Peace Commission Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. He made the remarks during a meeting on November 23 with district- and township-level officials, as well as local community elders, in Ma U Pin. He stated that preparations are being made to ensure a free and fa

The People’s Defence Force (PDF) and residents of Mogok Township in Mandalay Region told DVB on Monday that the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) has surrounded areas captured by the PDF with TNLA forces and artillery ahead of its scheduled withdrawal from the town and handover to regime forces by Nov. 29 . “The TNLA has aimed its artillery at [PDF] positions,” Soe Htay, a Mogok resident and pro-democracy activist, told DVB. He added that the TNLA controls the 88-mile (1

The Ta'ang National Liberation Army’s (TNLA) decision to return two towns under its control to the junta has shocked locals and raised questions about resistance unity and the group’s revolutionary objectives. The TNLA announced that it would return Mogok in Mandalay Region and Momeik (Mongmit) in northern Shan State to the junta following a Chinese-brokered ceasefire agreement, a decision that shocked both town residents and the wider Myanmar public. Local political analysts

A man from Kwan Rite Village in Chaungzone Township, Mon State, who was charged under the Election Protection Law, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison by the military tribunal, according to family members and people close to him. U Kyaw Myint, a 65-year-old resident of Kwan Rite Village, was arrested on November 4 after allegedly tearing down a list of parliamentary candidates posted at the village administrator’s office. He was subsequently charged at the Chaungzone Tow

Ethnic Mro residents in northern Maungdaw Township, Arakan (Rakhine) State, who have fled their homes due to threats and aggressions by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), are now facing severe shortages of food and shelter and urgently require essential aid. Around 1,500 people from nine villages including Donenyo, Upper Innchaung, Lower Innchaung, Ngatet, and Byaywe have been displaced by border clashes and the looming threat from ARSA. They are currently taking refu

Fighting between the junta and the resistance coalition led by the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) around Minletpan Village near Lay Kay Kaw Town, south of Myawaddy in Karen State’s Myawaddy Township, has forced many residents to flee into Thailand, while hundreds of others remain trapped on the Myanmar side of the conflict zone. A junta column of around 300 troops advanced toward Minletpan, a border village, on the banks of the Moei (Thaungyin) River, which forms the b