News About Myanmar

A Chinese-owned pipleline (photocrd) The Myanmar military junta carried out an airstrike using a fighter jet on October 12 against a vehicle carrying a Chinese national working at a China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) natural gas pipeline facility in Ann Township, Arakan State, according to reports. The vehicle, which was carrying Chinese employee Chen Jie (ထင်ကြည်) and two Myanmar workers employed at a Chinese natural gas pipeline facility in Ann Township, came under

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12 October 2026 Myanmar democracy activists received an international award at the Forum 2000 Conference in Prague on 12 October, as the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) separately reaffirmed its recognition of the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) for a fifth consecutive year even as junta airstrikes killed and injured civilians inside Myanmar, underscoring the gap between growing international support for the resistance and worsening conditions on the ground.

Photo: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, President-elect of Belarus, centre. Mizzima Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, President-elect of Belarus and Head of the United Transitional Cabinet, had an important message to say at the opening ceremony of the 30th Forum 2000 Conference in Prague on 11 October. “We must learn a very simple truth: dictators can’t be appeased. And when you do that – you only strengthen them,” she said. “Believe me, dictators don’t want peace, because war it’s what fu

Arakan Army troops pose after they destroyed and seized junta gunboats in Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine State in February 2024. / AA Info Desk Fierce battles have erupted around rebel-held Nga Pyi Island in Rakhine State’s Kaladan River delta, where regime forces keep trying to land troops despite heavy losses. Local sources say scores of regime solders were killed or captured in the first three days of fighting as the Arakan Army (AA) defends the strategic outpost while laying

Ruins burn in the aftermath of the regime airstrike in Kyauktaw, Rakhine State on September 28, 2026. / AFP In the week after the Sept. 28 massacre on Kyauktaw’s Indian market that killed 50 people and injured at least 58 others, Rakhine State endured another wave of aerial attacks. Local media reported at least nine bombing incidents across the townships of Ponnagyun, Rathedaung, Pauktaw, Kyauktaw, Thandwe and Kyaukphyu that killed at least another 12 civilians and injured m