News About Myanmar

Journalists covering an anti-coup protest in Yangon's Hlaing Township in March 2021. Photo : Frontier DMG Newsroom 5 October 2026, Yangon The Independent Press Council Myanmar (IPCM) has launched an emergency assistance programme for journalists forced to relocate because of threats linked to their work and for Myanmar journalists living abroad who need legal documentation to continue working safely. In a statement issued on October 5, IPCM said journalists have faced sustain

Radio Free Asia Myanmar’s military-backed government is increasingly resorting to attacks on civilians as a means to bring the rebel Arakan Army in the western coastal state of Rakhine to the negotiating table, Rakhine politicians and analysts told Radio Free Asia. The government launched an airstrike on the town of Kyauktaw, dropping bombs on a crowded marketplace and other civilian areas killing at least 50 people, including children and pregnant women, according to the Ara

Mizzima Progressive Voice have issued a report on 4 October entitled “Breaking Barriers: Myanmar’s Women Push for Peace Against Violence and Exclusion” that examines the challenges for women in Myanmar. Please see the report below: Women’s organizations are challenging the assumption that justice and gender equality can wait until the revolution succeeds. Women in Myanmar have long organized to challenge the structures that deny them power. This year’s International Day of Pe

https://www.mizzimaweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Mizzima_Weekly_Issue-25_Vol-3_September-24-2026.pdf

Insight Myanmar “I could not stay under a military rule that’s been killing thousands of people,” Maple tells the Insight Myanmar Podcast, recalling the moment she chose open resistance over safety. “I cannot just sit and watch.” Maple was studying Business Management and Entrepreneurship in South Korea when her country’s military seized power in February 2021. A scholarship student who had left an IT university in Myanmar years earlier, she had imagined building a financiall

yanmar migrants repatriated from Malaysia sit together at a temple during their official reception process in Thanlyin on October 4, 2026. / AFP THANLYIN, Myanmar—Nearly 1,500 Myanmar migrants from Malaysia returned to their war-ravaged home country on Sunday under an opaque repatriation scheme that rights monitors say cannot assure their safety. Dozens of migrants were transported on buses to a Buddhist monastery hall for immigration and health checks, AFP journalists saw, a