News About Myanmar

Antonio Graceffo Myanmar recorded more than 1,000 landmine and unexploded ordnance casualties in 2023, the highest in the world, according to UNICEF and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Independent human rights experts said this figure represents only part of a wider crisis as the junta escalates attacks on civilians, including people with disabilities. They reported that soldiers have forced civilians to walk through minefields and have blocked medical care and p

AFP Myanmar’s military said Sunday it arrested nearly 1,600 foreign nationals in five days in a highly publicised crackdown on a notorious internet scam hub on the Thai border. Sprawling fraud factories have mushroomed in war-torn Myanmar’s border regions, housing scammers who target internet users with romance and business cons worth tens of billions of dollars annually. Myanmar’s junta has long been accused of looking the other way as the illicit industry grows, but has tru

Mizzima The National Unity Government (NUG) announced that its Foreign Minister, Daw Zin Mar Aung, met with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on 17 November at Parliament House in Canberra to discuss Myanmar affairs. According to the NUG’s statement released on 20 November, the discussion covered humanitarian needs, transnational crimes, and regional peace and stability. Mizzima contacted the NUG Foreign Minister and the NUG spokesperson via social media for further comm

Narinjara News, November 22, 2025 More than 200 Burmese demonstrators gathered in front of the White House and the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., this evening to protest against China's interference in Myanmar and the military's manipulated election. The demonstrators showed their disapproval of Chinese intervention in Myanmar and the military's fraudulent election. They also urged for the prompt release of political detainees, which includes President U Win Myint and N

Kyaw Thiha (Intern Journalist), Narinjara News, November 23, 2025 The military regime, encountering defeats in the current conflict with the Arakan Army in Kyaukphyu, Rakhine State, has been indiscriminately attacking the civilian populace with heavy weapons, not even showing any regard for places of worship. The junta navy's artillery has burnt down the monastery in Ywa Ma Sin Bok Village in Kyaukphyu Township. It is said to have demolished a school structure in another vill

US protest against regime’s 2025-26 elections Organizers of protests in front of The White House and the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. told DVB that over 400 members of the diaspora and others denounced the regime’s “sham” 2025-26 elections in Burma, and demanded an end to online scam operations along the Burma-Thai border, on Saturday.   “We demanded the Chinese government to change its policy [in supporting the regime]. Then, we requested the [U.S.] government to offi