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The junta collected an additional one trillion kyat in the 2024-25 fiscal year, largely thanks to workers abroad, according to analysts

Regime forces shot and killed a farmer while he was irrigating his field in Sagaing Region’s Wetlet Township on Wednesday, according to sources. The troops, part of a reinforcement column advancing through the area, opened fire when they encountered the 58-year-old man and two others from the village of Hla Htway at around 2am, a member of a local resistance force told Myanmar Now. “The column advanced at night to avoid detection and came across the farmers directly in their

A man was killed in the bombing raid and both pilots died in the crash, according to resistance sources

Sources close to the film industry told DVB that Myanmar film star Phway Phway, a three-time Myanmar Academy Award winning actress, was detained and questioned for not responding to a Ministry of Information request to participate in activities promoting the regime’s 2025-26 elections on Wednesday.  A source close to the Myanmar film industry confirmed to DVB that Phway Phway, 37, was detained for questioning by police during a film shoot in Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay Region, on

Ongoing clashes and airstrikes by military junta forces in Tanintharyi Region have displaced more than 80,800 people as of the end of October, according to local monitoring groups. The surge in displacement has been driven by ground offensives into villages, arbitrary arrests and killings of civilians, burning of homes, and frequent air attacks by junta forces. According to FE5 Tanintharyi, an organization monitoring the conflict situation in the region, both clashes and air

Fierce fighting raged around Htiphosan Village in northern Kawkareik Township, Karen State, from early November until November 5, inflicting heavy casualties on the junta forces. The junta columns suffered heavy casualties from attacks by the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and allied resistance groups. Consequently, the troops withdrew to Kyondoe Town in Kawkareik Township to regroup with newly arrived reinforcements, according to a resistance source. “Junta troops tri