News About Myanmar

YANGON: Acting President Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (pic) said some ethnic armed groups that have signed peace agreements with the government are still engaging in illegal border trade for their own benefit instead of showing loyalty to the state. Speaking at a development meeting with officials and community leaders in Mawlamyine on Sunday (Nov 16), he said instability in border areas has forced the closure of several border gates. He claimed that some government staff a

Narinjara News, November 17, 2025 An Arakan Army drone strike killed many soldiers from the Myanmar junta army while they were getting ready to line up for propaganda photographs in front of the Min Pyin Weather Radar Station located in Kyaukphyu Township. The incident took place at around 10 a.m. on November 14. Approximately 20 junta soldiers were reported dead, with many more sustaining injuries, based on information from a source at the scene. A video recording of the dro

Regime personnel have subjected people displaced from Mogok, whom they suspect of sympathising with the anti-junta resistance, to invasive inspections on various routes away from the town

Residents say soldiers are sweeping the city in private and military vehicles, detaining youth at checkpoints as the regime expands its draft to fill depleted frontline units

Foreign Governments Should Reject Sham Electoral Process, Denounce Abuses Originally published on HRW Foreign governments should reject the Myanmar junta’s plans to hold elections from late December 2025 through January 2026 because they will not be free, fair, or inclusive, Human Rights Watch said today. Since the February 2021 military coup, the junta has systematically dismantled the rule of law and the country’s nascent democratic systems, and ahead of the polls it has ra

Around 35,000 residents of Pauk Township in Magway Region have fled their homes due to a regime counteroffensive, the National Unity Government (NUG) Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management reported on Monday.  The U.N. estimates that there are 3.6 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Myanmar. Residents in Pauk, Myaing, Seikphyu and Yesagyo townships told DVB that regime forces launched a counteroffensive against the People’s Defence Force (PDF) in