News About Myanmar

Mizzima On 17 October, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) issued a statement following a forum held on October 16, 2025. The forum was co-hosted by Progressive Voice and the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (ALTSEAN-Burma) and was titled “Strengthening Regional Accountability: ASEAN’s Failure on Women, Youth, Peace, and Security in Myanmar.” The statement is as follows: SUHAKAM stands in firm solidarity with the people of Myanmar, particularly women and youth

YANGON—Myanmar’s junta raided one of the country’s most notorious internet scam centers and seized Starlink devices, it said Monday, after an AFP investigation revealed an explosion in their use in the billion-dollar black market. Internet sweat shops where workers scam unsuspecting foreigners with business or romance schemes have thrived in war-ravaged Myanmar’s lawless border regions since the coronavirus pandemic. A transnational push by Thai, Chinese and Myanmar authoriti

Regime media reported on Friday that Myanmar refugee rights activist Thuzar Maung, 48, and her family were arrested on an unspecified date after their “illegal” return to Myanmar from Malaysia and are under investigation by police.  This news comes over two years after Thuzar Maung, her husband Saw Than Tin Wan, and their three children; Poeh Khing Maung, Aung Myint Maung, and Thukha Maung, disappeared from their family home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 4, 2023 .  Regim

The National Unity Government (NUG) U Nay Bone Latt, the spokesperson of Union Prime Minister Office-NUG, stated that peace would not emerge unless the military junta leaves politics. In Salin Township of Magway Region, the People’s Defence Force destroyed Myanmar beer, the junta’s products, confiscated on the Salin-Sinphyugyung Road. In Monywa Township of Sagaing Region, the revolution forces attacked junta troops on their way to send rations to the junta army stationed at K

Narinjara News, October 18, 2025 Intense combat was reported once more in two areas close to Chinese developments in Kyaukphyu, situated approximately 10 miles from the city. A local military source close to the AA reported that hostilities have resumed since October 14, when the Myanmar junta army launched a new offensive. “The fighting is happening daily at this time. It is fierce. The military is once more launching an offensive against the areas governed by the AA, and th

The Arakan Army (AA) said on Tuesday that its forces are still battling to seize full control of the junta’s Nat Ye Kan air defence outpost, located on the Ann–Padan road, a key route linking Rakhine State and Magway Region. In a statement, the ethnic armed group said several camps remain under junta control but that its troops are conducting assaults to capture the remaining positions. “In order to fully capture the strategic Nat Ye Kan hill, we are carrying out assaults on