News About Myanmar

Myanmar nationals queue outside the Myanmar embassy in Singapore awaiting assistance in May 2022. (Photo: Kyaw Ye) Myanmar diplomatic missions in Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand have introduced stricter processing rules and mandatory clearance requirements for passport category conversions, creating significant delays for overseas citizens. A Myanmar national with a Passport for Visit (PV) living in Singapore told DVB on the condition of anonymity that

Bo Kyi in an April 2021 campaign photo calling for the release of political prisoner Wai Moe Naing, a pro-democracy activist who was arrested in Monywa Township, Sagaing Region on April 15, 2021. (Credit: Bo Kyi) Bo Kyi, co-founder and joint secretary of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), was selected as one of three recipients of the 2026 Ramon Magsaysay Award, the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation announced on Monday. Award recognition and AAPP histor

Antonio Graceffo For more than six decades, Burma’s (Myanmar’s) wars have been closely connected to illicit trade. Opium and heroin financed armed organizations, including Khun Sa’s Mong Tai Army (MTA), as well as government-aligned militias, traffickers, and corrupt officials in Shan State. Successive military regimes, including the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the State Administration Council (SAC), and its

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Mizzima Myanmar Facebook users are comparing this week’s online climate to the surveillance-heavy teashops of military-ruled decades, after two Mon State residents were arrested this month for comments left on a resistance group’s Facebook page. “It’s reached the point where we’re afraid to do anything now,” one user writes. Another draws a direct parallel to the past: people could no longer speak freely in teashops, they say, and “now we can’t say anything online either.” Th

Sai Wansai Recent reports of Shan Herald Agency for News and Khit Thit Media on cyberscam and scam center operations have made headlines, raising questions about whether Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s claim that the illicit trade is being eradicated is credible or just state propaganda aimed at portraying China as in control. Let’s take a closer look and compare it with the reality on the ground. The Displacement from Border Compounds to Urban Ghost Hotels The narrative s