News About Myanmar

Myanmar’s military junta has opened criminal cases against overseas dissidents, political opposition figures, and independent media organizations, and is seeking Interpol Red Notices for their arrest, according to a senior official. Min Thu, deputy minister for the junta’s Ministry of Home Affairs, disclosed the measures on October 6 in the military-controlled Pyithu Hluttaw (lower house), responding to an inquiry from Than Than Aye, a lawmaker with the military-backed Union

The Myanmar military deployed formations of fighter jets and Y-12 transport aircraft to conduct heavy, continuous bombing raids on mountain ranges in Arakan (Rakhine) State's Kyauktaw Township early Thursday morning. Residents reported that three fighter jets and a Y-12 aircraft flew over in formations, dropping at least 30 bombs in waves between 3:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. on October 8, targeting the Hminechaung mountain range north of Yokethar and Nagayar villages in upper Kyau

Mizzima The Arakan Army (AA) released a statement on 7 October expressing its gratitude to individuals and organizations that opposed and condemned the military junta’s airstrike in Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine State, which claimed the lives of 50 local residents. On 28 September, shortly after 12:00 PM, the military junta carried out an airstrike near the India Market and the Kissapanadi Bridge in Kyauktaw. The attack killed 50 local residents and injured 57 others. The AA’s s

Mizzima Malaysia and Myanmar agreed on 8 October to send home the remaining Myanmar nationals held in Malaysian immigration detention, but neither government has said who is covered, and the UN refugee agency says it has had no access to the first 1,476 people returned to check whether they chose to go. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim told a joint press conference in Putrajaya, during a two-day visit by junta leader Min Aung Hlaing that the remaining detainees would be returned

Mizzima Years of conflict, economic disruption, displacement and repeated shocks are eroding the foundations that people across Myanmar rely on to survive, cope and recover, according to a new UNDP report released on 8 October. More than two in three people are now either living in multidimensional poverty or vulnerable to falling into it, leaving millions with little capacity to withstand further crises. The report, Layers of Deprivation: Multidimensional Poverty in Myanmar,

By Shwe Zin Win Htike | Narinjara, October 8, 2026 The Myanmar military regime has reportedly transferred more than 200 recently deported Arakanese(Rakhine) nationals to a military recruitment center in Yangon, where they are being interrogated over potential links to the Arakan Army (AA). Concerns are mounting as families report they have lost all contact with the detainees. Among the undocumented migrants recently repatriated from Malaysia to Yangon, 220 ethnic Arakanese in