News About Myanmar

Sources close to the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA)-run administration in Mogok Township, Mandalay Region, told DVB that the ethnic armed group will withdraw from the town famed for its lucrative ruby mines from Nov. 20-25, as part of the Chinese-brokered ceasefire agreement with the regime in Naypyidaw reached on Oct. 29 .   “We learned that the TNLA is negotiating with the regime to let it open a liaison office after withdrawing from the town,” a TNLA source told DV

Oil companies based in British Overseas Territories have earned hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues for the illegal Myanmar junta since the military’s 2021 attempted coup, in suspected violation of UK sanctions. These include two joint ventures between the junta-controlled Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) and the Thai energy giant PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP) that are still operating in British Overseas Territories, 18 months after

BEIJING: China sentenced five people to death on Tuesday (Nov 4) for their involvement in a violent criminal gang with fraud operations in Myanmar's Kokang region along the border, state media reported. Scam compounds have flourished in Myanmar's lawless borderlands, staffed by foreigners - many of them Chinese - who often say they were trafficked and forced to swindle people online, part of a multibillion-dollar illicit industry. Beijing has stepped up cooperation with Sout

Mizzima A statement released by the Arakan Rohingya National Council (ARNC) on 1 November strongly condemned the ongoing and indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations three townships of western Myanmar. The text of the statement is as follows. The Arakan Rohingya National Council (ARNC) expresses its strongest condemnation of the brutal airstrike carried out by the Myanmar military junta on October 30 and 31, 2025, in Ponnagyun, Kyauk Phyu and Rathedaung Townships, which

Mizzima Progressive Voice, a rights-based research and advocacy group, issued a new briefing paper on 3 November warning that Myanmar’s military junta is orchestrating a “sham election” on 28 December 2025 to legitimize its rule and entrench military dictatorship. According to the report, the junta – which recently rebranded itself as the State Security and Peace Commission after lifting a repeatedly extended state of emergency – is seeking to use the vote to “manufacture fal