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The Karen Border Guard Force (BGF), a junta-aligned Karen armed group, has declared war on telecom scam businesses, locally known as Zhapian gangs, operating in Myawaddy Township in Karen State along the Thai-Myanmar border, including the notorious Shwe Kokko Town, the BGF said. \ Speaking to Thai media on November 17, BGF spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Naing Maung Zaw announced his group’s declaration of war on Zhapian businesses. “The fight to eliminate Zhapian will be car

The National Unity Government (NUG)  According to Sagaing Federal Unit Hluttaw, U Soe Oo was appointed as the Chief Minister of their government. Additionally, the Chief of Unit Hluttaw was approved.  In the north of Pauk Township in Magway Region, the junta army has been invading the area with three troop contingents. According to the Local Humanitarian Department, over 30,000 local residents of over 40 villages have had to run away.  In Tanintharyi Region, a conscripted sol

Narinjara News, November 18, 2025 Recently, there have been two separate landmine explosions in Maungdaw Township, Arakan (Rakhine) State, near Bangladesh, leading to the death of one individual and causing another person to amputate a leg. The individual who passed away was identified as U Daung Rying, aged 42, from Khongdaing Village in Maungdaw Township. Additionally, another person, U Abu La Chain, aged 55, from Nganchaung North Village in Maungdaw Township, had his right

The Myanmar junta’s Union Election Commission (UEC) has rejected an appeal by Thet Thet Khine, People’s Pioneer Party (PPP) chair and a former junta minister, upholding her disqualification from the upcoming election. “I submitted an appeal, but the UEC has already rejected it. That means I can no longer contest,” she told supporters at a PPP rally in Yangon’s Hlaing Tharyar Township on Friday. She was disqualified on Oct. 21 under Section 8(d) of the Election Law, which bars

The Myanmar junta-allied Karen State Border Guard Force (BGF) and regime forces on Tuesday raided the notorious Shwe Kokko scam hub, which has until now operated under its protection. The raid came a day after the junta’s BGF announced a “final war” against the scam operations in the compound on the Thai-Myanmar border in Karen State’s Myawaddy Township. Forces from the BGF and the Myanmar military and police raided the crime hub, arresting over 300 foreign nationals, most of

Appointment of former NLD official Soe Oo formalises a new civilian administration in one of Myanmar’s most contested regions