News About Myanmar

Letter dated 22 December 2025 from the Permanent Representative of Myanmar to the United Nations, H.E. Mr. Kyaw Moe Tun, addressed to the Secretary-General H.E. Mr. Antonio Guterres, on the heartbreaking situation in Myanmar, together with the Information Update on the current situation in Myanmar as of 15 October 2025. Identical letters attached with the Information Update mentioned above were also sent to H.E. Ms. Annalena Baerbock, President of the 80th Session of the Unit

Local ethnic communities in Arakan (Rakhine) State’s Buthidaung, Maungdaw and Rathedaung townships, areas under the control of the Arakan Army (AA), have voiced growing concerns over their security amid recent activities by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). Residents reported that ARSA armed combatants have recently been seen moving through villages and forested areas along the Mayu Mountains, which lie between Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships. “We’re really worried

Mizzima The National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) has welcomed Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s 13 December 2025 Chair’s Statement condemning the airstrike on Mrauk-U Hospital in Rakhine State but stressed that statements alone are not enough. In this statement, NUCC called on ASEAN to take clear, concrete, and timely action to stop airstrikes, protect civilians, ensure humanitarian access, and hold the Myanmar military accountable for serious violations

Mizzima A question is now being asked openly across international media, diplomatic briefings, and human rights forums: will Aung San Suu Kyi ever be free? Because the world delayed demanding an answer, another question now carries unavoidable urgency: is she even alive? Aung San Suu Kyi is not a marginal political figure. She is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the democratically elected leader of Myanmar, and one of the most globally recognized symbols of nonviolent resistance

YANGON: Myanmar's junta is set to preside over voting starting Sunday (Dec 28), touting heavily restricted polls as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last elected government, triggering civil war. Former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains jailed and her hugely popular party dissolved after soldiers ended the nation's decade-long democratic experiment in February 2021. International monitors have dismissed the phased month-long vote as a rebranding of

Amid condemnation inside and outside Myanmar and its own purported doubts about the military’s fitness for rule, Beijing has given crucial support to the junta generals in holding the election