News About Myanmar

Narinjara News, October 26, 2025 It has been announced that the youngest volunteer of the Phyu Sin Yin Kwin Foundation, Maung Htay Aung Hein, also known as Ko Lat, age 14, tragically lost his life in Ponnagyun, located 16 miles north of the state capital Sittwe, when a terrorist army drone targeted him while he was transporting a patient. According to his brother Ko Kai Hein Htet on social media, the young volunteer lost his life when the terrorist group launched a drone stri

Scam operations in Karen State’s Myawaddy Township are operating as usual, according to locals, despite the junta’s purported “raid” on major scam hub KK Park—an operation that, though widely dismissed as a PR stunt, has prompted many of its workers to move to nearby crime centers. Thousands of workers have fled the scam compound since Oct. 22 amid reports that another junta “raid” is pending, but another 100-acre (40-hectare) compound near Mae Htaw Thalay Village not far fro

150 Indian nationals and one South Korean national were detained on October 26 after illegally entering Myanmar from border areas and committing online gambling and online fraud in the KK Park area of Myawaddy-Me Htaw Tha Lay, Kayin State,according to the Ministry of Immigration and Population. The ministry said that the necessary documents are being collected by the relevant departments to ensure that the detained foreigners can be repatriated to their respective countries a

The Karen National Union (KNU) stated on Sunday that it has no involvement in alleged cyber scam operations ongoing inside the Chinese-backed KK Park in Myawaddy Township, Karen State. Myawaddy is located along the Myanmar-Thailand border 81 miles (130 km) east of the Karen State capital Hpa-An. The KNU said in its Oct. 26 statement that its Mulaei Ahlin Company withdrew from the collaboration with Trans-Asia International Holding Group (Thailand) in December 2022, suspending

Members of parliament in New Zealand held a public meeting in Auckland, New Zealand, to share the results of their fact-finding mission to the Thailand-Myanmar border, on Saturday.  “Their purpose is to witness the situation of refugees and the displaced persons along the border. They learned what kind of assistance [New Zealand] can provide,” a Myanmar national living in New Zealand who attended the meeting told DVB on the condition of anonymity.  Three New Zealand MPs Phil

Myanmar on the agenda at the ASEAN 47th Summit in Malaysia Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 2025 chair, he has worked with all sides to reduce violence in Burma before welcoming delegates to the ASEAN 47th Summit, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Sunday. He added that the ASEAN Five Point Consensus, the regional bloc’s peace plan for Burma, must be the starting point for peace and reconciliation.  “Lasting peac