More than 50,000 abandon homes in Sagaing township as Myanmar regime troops respond to resistance’s ‘final warning’ with arbitrary artillery and airstrikes.
How Should Bangladesh Handle Myanmar’s Fleeing Soldiers?
On February 6, 264 members of Myanmar’s border and security forces took shelter in Bangladesh to escape heavy fighting between Myanmar’s army and the Arakan Army. They were disarmed by the members of …
Why Shan State’s Formidable Armies Have Shunned the Fight Against Myanmar’s Junta
After six decades of political wrangling, assassinations and opium trading, Myanmar’s Shan forces remain bitterly divided, lacking a common vision for their people.
Why Shan State’s Formidable Armies Have Shunned the Fight Against Myanmar’s Junta
After six decades of political wrangling, assassinations and opium trading, Myanmar’s Shan forces remain bitterly divided, lacking a common vision for their people.
Myanmar awaits approval to add traditional Thingyan festival to Unesco lists
YANGON: Myanmar’s traditional Thingyan festival (water festival) was submitted to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) in March 2023 and the approval comes through …
Video Shows Rohingya Forcibly Recruited Into Myanmar Military
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 …