News About Myanmar

The speaker of the resistance-led Chinland Parliament has issued a formal appeal to the Malaysian government, urging an immediate halt to the deportation of Myanmar nationals, including members of the ethnic Chin community and anti-coup dissidents. In an open letter dated Oct. 5 to Malaysian Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Speaker U Hung Naing called on Kuala Lumpur to provide temporary humanitarian protection to detainees facing severe risks if re

Some homes damaged by junta airstrikes. Myanmar’s military junta launched three consecutive days of airstrikes on villages in northern Kawkareik Township, Karen State, using fighter jets and Y-12 transport aircraft to drop dozens of heavy bombs, according to local sources and resistance fighters. The attacks, which ran from Oct. 6 to Oct. 8, targeted villages including Htihpoezan, Miparle, Myapataing, and Kwimaungtaing. The area is located in Dooplaya (Kawkareik) District, an

Photo: Crd Dozens of ethnic Chin deportees repatriated from Malaysia aboard Myanmar junta navy warships remain stranded in Yangon, unable to return to their conflict-affected hometowns due to travel hurdles and financial constraints, according to local relief workers. The group of 173 Chin nationals—originating from Chin State as well as the Magway and Sagaing regions—arrived at Yangon’s Thilawa Port on Oct. 4. They were part of a larger batch of 1,476 Myanmar detainees hande

Mizzima The United States has opened direct talks with Myanmar’s military regime, with a senior State Department intelligence official meeting junta leader Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyidaw last month, Reuters reported on 8 October. The meeting was the highest-level contact between Washington and the generals since the February 2021 coup. According to Reuters, which cited seven current and former officials and others familiar with the policy shift, Michael Vance, the Assistant Sec

9 October 2026 The Trump administration has opened direct talks with Myanmar’s military authorities for the first time since the 2021 coup, Reuters reported, even as junta leader Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, who declared himself “president,” returned to Naypyidaw on the afternoon of 8 October from a two-day official visit to Malaysia, a double diplomatic opening for the regime that has drawn sharp criticism from the United Nations, rights groups and Myanmar’s own opposition. Junta L

Residents queue to buy vegetable oil in Yangon in August 2022. / AFP More than 37 million people—over two-thirds of Myanmar’s population of more than 54 million—are experiencing or at risk of “multidimensional poverty,” according to the latest report from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released on Thursday. Drawing data from a nationwide household survey of nearly 7,500 people in 2025, the UNDP’s latest analysis examines what it calls multidimensional poverty