News About Myanmar

Residents across 10 townships in Mon State are growing increasingly alarmed as military regime troops operating in civilian clothes carry out arbitrary vehicle seizures, abductions, and extortion targeting local villagers and plantation workers, according to residents and human rights groups. The regime has intensified security checks at town entry points, major road junctions, and rural thoroughfares. Beyond inspecting vehicles, junta personnel have reportedly been abducting

The 11th anniversary ceremony of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), held in Naypyitaw. Myanmar military regime leader Min Aung Hlaing has renewed his invitation to the Chin National Front (CNF), the Karen National Union (KNU), and the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) to participate in peace talks. The appeal was made on October 15 during ceremonies in Naypyitaw marking the anniversary of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA). "We’ve already invited not

Photo: Phyoe Ratha More than 400 Arakanese nationals deported from Malaysia after serving prison sentences remain detained under heavy security by the military regime in Yangon, with authorities preventing them from returning to Arakan State, according to sources close to the detainees. On October 4, officials from both countries helped 1,476 Myanmar nationals return to Yangon from Malaysia. More than 400 people among them are from Arakan State. Authorities have temporarily p

U.S. officials held a meeting with Myanmar miliary regime officials in Tokyo last week, Reuters reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the meeting. It was the second round of talks between the two countries within a month. A U.S. delegation led by Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research Michael Vance visited the regime’s capital Naypyitaw in mid-September. Vance also led the delegation in Tokyo, which included over a dozen U.S. officials, while th

China‑backed refinery lets regime bypass jet fuel sanctions A jet fuel module for the Thanlyin refinery waits to be shipped to Thilawa Port. /PCCS Myanmar’s military regime has restarted the Thanlyin No.1 Oil Refinery near Yangon, allowing it to bypass jet fuel sanctions and sustain its deadly air raids on the civilian population. According to Nikkei Asia, Phase 1 is designed to produce 150,000 metric tons of jet fuel annually, roughly equal to Myanmar’s import volume last ye

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko (left) talks with Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyitaw on July 2, 2026. /president.gov.by Myanmar’s military regime, squeezed by a worsening fiscal crisis, has turned to its ally Belarus for high‑interest loans, with its rubber-stamp parliament granting approval to borrow at rates nearing 10 percent. On Wednesday, lawmakers endorsed coup leader Min Aung Hlaing’s proposal to secure loans from Belarus just eight days after he submitted the requ