VOA has recently obtained video footage depicting Rohingya from Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps being trained as soldiers in Rakhine state, the scene of heavy fighting between Myanmar’s …
Flight to freedom: Myanmar’s scam center workers repatriated to China
YANGON Myanmar – Hundreds of people who worked in Myanmar notorious scam centers have left on Chinese-organized evacuation flights …
Myanmar Farmers Turn To Opium Poppies Amid Coup And Conflict
For many farmers in conflict and coup-riven Myanmar, poppy farming has become their only way of making ends meet amid the social and economic turmoil across the country. The opium resin extracted from …
Boom times for Myanmar opium farmers as coup chaos bites
In a remote corner of Myanmar a line of farmers move through a field of nodding poppies, making small cuts in the greenish-purple pods to release opium resin.”I can only know about my region of poppy …
Boom times for Myanmar opium farmers as coup chaos bites
In a remote corner of Myanmar a line of farmers move through a field of nodding poppies, making small cuts in the greenish-purple pods to release opium resin.”I can only know about my region of poppy …
Arakan Army Claims Seizure of Myanmar Junta Border Outpost
The Arakan Army (AA) says it seized a Myanmar junta outpost on the Bangladesh border in Maungdaw Township, Rakhine State, on Tuesday, forcing 179 regime troops across the frontier. More than 1,200 …
US Well-Placed To Guide Myanmar’s New Governance
(MENAFN- Asia Times) In Myanmar, hardly a day passes without a report of another village, town or township being“liberated” by one or more of the ethnic resistance organizations (EROs) or People’s …
Over 800 Chinese repatriated from Myanmar
BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) — More than 800 Chinese nationals involved in online gambling and telecom fraud crimes have been repatriated from Myanmar, the Ministry of Public Security said Wednesday.
Old pictures falsely portrayed as ‘western Myanmar air strike in 2024’
Two pictures of what appear to be a burned village resurfaced in Burmese-language Facebook posts that falsely claimed they show the aftermath of a military bombardment in Myanmar’s western Rakhine …
Remembering Two Deaths that Changed the Course of Myanmar’s History
To mark the 36th anniversary of the deaths of RIT students Ko Phone Maw and Ko Soe Naing, The Irrawaddy revisits an article published in March 2018.