News About Myanmar

The National Unity Government (NUG) Committee Representing Pyitaungsu Hluttaw sent a statement of honour to the 65th anniversary of the establishment of Kachin Independence Organization on Saturday. In No. (1) Military Region under the NUG, the Headquarters of Ministry of Defence-NUG called for public participation in the campaign to support armour for the People’s Defence Forces in Sagaing Region. For the second time, Gantgaw District PDF paid respect to the family members o

Mizzima The People’s Defence Force (PDF) under the Naypyidaw Military Region Command has seized several junta bases in Ywathit village, Yedashe Township, Taungoo District, Bago Region, on 20 October, according to the group. The junta has since launched continuous air and artillery attacks in retaliation. PDF units captured the main military outpost and nearby positions on the eastern bank of the Sittaung River. The group said 15 junta troops, including Deputy Battalion Comman

JOINT STATEMENT We, the undersigned trade unions, civil society, and human rights organisations from across the ASEAN region and international community, issue this urgent and unequivocal call to our governments ahead of the upcoming ASEAN Summit: outrightly reject the Myanmar military junta’s planned sham election. Anything less would be a betrayal of the people of Myanmar and a stain on the conscience of our entire region. The junta’s planned election on 28 December 2025 is

Two leading human rights organizations have urged ASEAN to end reject the Myanmar junta’s planned election and stop engaging with the military regime. In separate statements ahead of the 47th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Justice for Myanmar (JFM) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on regional leaders to take a firm stance against the junta’s “sham” election and to support democracy and justice in Myanmar. JFM said ASEAN “has the opportunity at this summit to end its continu

The regime Union Election Commission (UEC) told pro-regime media on Saturday that the founder and chairperson of the People’s Pioneer Party (PPP) Thet Thet Khine is disqualified from running for a seat in the Amyotha Hluttaw, or the upper house of parliament, in the upcoming regime elections scheduled to begin on Dec. 28.  The UEC cited Section 8(d) of the Amyotha Hluttaw Election Law for the disqualification in its written response that surfaced on social media on Oct. 25. T

ASEAN’s four-year-old plan for peace in Myanmar is not difficult to implement and the military regime should adhere to it and allow humanitarian aid to be distributed, Malaysia’s foreign minister said on Friday. Mohamad Hasan also said the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional bloc could not stop regime scheduled elections in Myanmar set to being on Dec. 28 but its foreign ministers want the contest to be fair and inclusive. ASEAN agreed on a “Five-Point Con