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Mizzima Three residents of Mindon Township, Magway Region, including a child, were killed between 8 and 12 October in two junta bombings carried out with motorized paragliders, known as paramotors, according to People’s Defense Force (PDF) Thayet District Battalion 4. The battalion said the paramotors took off from the No. 12 Defence Equipment Factory (Ka Pa Sa 12) near Thayet. On 8 October at about 5:25 p.m., three paramotors dropped nine bombs on Chin Nit village, killing M

Mizzima Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said on 12 October that 4.9 million children in Myanmar need humanitarian assistance, citing the military junta’s intensified airstrikes and heavy artillery attacks. He spoke during a discussion on children’s rights at the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly in New York. Kyaw Moe Tun said the junta is intentionally blocking access, leaving 1.2 million children without life-saving

FUZHOU, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- China on Tuesday handed out death sentences to three leading members of a criminal gang led by the Wei family, which carried out criminal activities, including telecom fraud and gambling, in Myanmar. Three others were sentenced to life imprisonment, while another 55 face jail terms ranging from three years and three months to 24 years, according to rulings made by the Intermediate People's Court of Quanzhou and People's Court of Nan'an, both in Fuj

Maung Sar Ga Narinjara, October 13, 2026 A vehicle carrying a Chinese national employed at a gas pipeline facility in Ann Township was hit by military junta aerial bombing and machine-gun fire. The attack occurred on the Ann-Padan road, near the border between Ann Township in Arakan State and Padan in the Magway Region. A source told Narinjara that the vehicle was transporting Chen Jie, a Chinese national, alongside two Myanmar workers employed at the China National Petroleum

Wei Huairen, one of three people sentenced to death by a Chinese court on October 13, is seen being handed over to Chinese authorities in January 2025 (Photo: Xinhua) The sentences were handed down to three members of the “Wei family criminal gang,” including its leader, Wei Huairen A Chinese court sentenced three members of a criminal gang to death on Tuesday for operating a network of brutal scam centres in Myanmar’s Kokang region on the border with China, while jailing doz

Myanmar regime Foreign Minister Tin Maung Sweat a meeting of the newly-formed ASEAN Affairs Committee at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Naypyidaw on Oct. 13. (Credit: Regime media) The regime in Naypyidaw held the first meeting of its newly formed ASEAN Affairs Committee on Oct. 13, stating that it aims to restore Myanmar’s standing within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which banned all senior regime officials from high-level summits and meetings sinc