Scam hubs linked to Naypyidaw
Myanmar’s junta and its armed local affiliates are keeping the country’s scam centers in business in the midst of a...
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Post-disaster conundrum
The recent 7.7-magnitude earthquake that ravaged central Myanmar magnifies systemic neglect of a people already reeling from oppressive junta rule.
Defunded dreams
Crucial education programs and initiatives supporting democracy in Myanmar are only some of the many casualties of the U.S. aid...
A controversial count
Myanmar’s junta wants a recent census to help pave the way to elections that it insists on holding, but questions...
Anti-junta forces gain more ground
This year may end up a pivotal one in the quest of Myanmar’s resistance forces to free the country from...
Beijing bets on Myanmar’s junta
China is now openly backing Myanmar’s military junta and pressuring ethnic armed groups fighting it to go back to the...
Myanmar’s two terrors
A super typhoon has killed at least 300 people in Myanmar and rendered hundreds of thousands more without food and...
War reaches Myanmar’s urban areas
Myanmar’s raging civil war is no longer confined to the rural areas, and is now forcing even city dwellers to...
Myanmar military continues airstrikes on hospitals and clinics in Chin State
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Progressive Voice: Persecution of political prisoners must stop
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Sleepless in Naypyitaw: Myanmar junta leader lives in fear of assassination
Myanmar l The Irrawaddy
Myanmar records highest April temperature of 48.2 deg C
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Myanmar junta announces plans to expropriate unused land
Myanmar l Mizzima Myanmar
Tensions flare between Myanmar ethnic armed groups in Shan State town
Myanmar l The Irrawaddy
Myanmar junta leader struggles with setbacks and a democracy icon
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Myanmar UN ambassador calls for international support amid political and economic crises
Myanmar l Mizzima Myanmar
The organic logic of Myanmar’s revolution
Myanmar l The Irrawaddy
In Myanmar, a record-shattering heatwave takes a toll on elderly, children, poor
Myanmar l The Irrawaddy
Around 80 women, children killed by Myanmar junta in Kale in two months: Report
Myanmar l The Irrawaddy
Resistance forces disrupt Myanmar junta trade routes, says junta leader
Myanmar l Mizzima Myanmar
‘Neutral’ Border Guard Force helped Myanmar military retake Myawaddy: KNU
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Ethnic army executes three men after public trial in Northern Myanmar
Myanmar l The Irrawaddy
“Myanmar warlord at centre of battle for key border town “
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New conscripts forced to hand over phones as training begins
Myanmar l Myanmar Now
Stateless, twice over
Deported from the U.S. to a homeland that won’t take them back, Bhutanese refugees now find themselves trapped in a...
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Laboring under a tariff threat
Hundreds of thousands of workers in Sri Lanka – particularly those in the garments and apparel sector – are getting...
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Left out by the law
India’s new criminal law has been in effect for almost a year now, but the country’s transgender community is finding...
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Between memory and forgetting: Keeping the spirit of Tiananmen alive
Yearly candlelight vigils in Hong Kong remembering the Tiananmen victims may have been extinguished. Yet the embers of activism through...
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