News About Myanmar

By Nava Thakuria Narinjara, 2 October 2026 Troubles are brewing in the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) in south Bangladesh, bordering India’s Tripura and Mizoram along with Myanmar’s Rakhine (Arakan) province, as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led government in Dhaka lately constituted three high-level committees with an aim to address all long-standing challenges embracing the disturbed CHT region of the south Asian nation. A large group of Bangladeshi intellectuals with civ

Myanmar Navy vessels UMS King Sin Phyu Shin and UMS Moattama with Myanmar Navy hospital vessel Thanlwin, which will repatriate Myanmar nationals from Malaysia, docked at the Lumut Naval Base in Lumut, Malaysia, on Sept. 29, 2026. (Credit: Reuters) Nearly 1,500 Myanmar nationals repatriated from Malaysia aboard three Myanmar Navy vessels entered home waters on Thursday, and are expected to dock at the commercial hub of Yangon within days, regime media reported on Friday. The n

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) hosted the launch of People’s Goal’s report: “Wind of Change: Inside the Defection Wave & The Future of Myanmar’s Security Sector” in Bangkok on Sept. 25, 2026. (Credit: People’s Goal) A new research report based on in-depth interviews with military defectors reveals mounting internal decay, fear-driven compliance, and shifting defection patterns inside Myanmar’s armed forces. Released by civil society organization People’s

Kelley E. Currie, who was given the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar in April, at a UN meeting on human rights in China in 2019. (Credit: UN) The new U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Kelley E. Currie, issued an urgent appeal to Malaysian authorities on Thursday, calling for an immediate halt to the ongoing repatriation of Myanmar nationals. The U.N. human rights expert warned that returning as

A Myanmar military airstrike targeted Kyaukseik village in Ponnagyun Township and Kutaung village in Rathedaung Township, Rakhine (Arakan) State, killing one resident and injuring three others on the night of Sept. 30, according to local sources. At around 9 p.m., a military jet bombed Kyaukseik, a site near Ponnagyun town sheltering internally displaced persons (IDPs). The attack injured two civilians: four-year-old Maung Nay Kyaw Lin, who suffered severe leg injuries, and 2

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and allied resistance forces have captured several military junta positions across northern Myanmar, overrunning bases in Momeik (Mongmit) Township in Shan State as well as Bhamo and Mohnyin townships in Kachin State. Expanding its offensive from Kachin State into neighboring northern Shan State, the KIA-led coalition captured a strategic junta hilltop camp near Shwemintin Pagoda, outside Momeik Town, around 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 28. Frontline