Current Events Related to Myanmar

Conflict

Myanmar Resistance Backs Conscription Warning With Wave of Assassinations

Junta officials in the crosshairs as forcible recruitment of civilians gets underway across the country.

Myanmar junta forces plant landmines and burn homes in a Bago village

While local houses in Puzunmyaung village are on fire due to arson by the Military Council (Photo: KNU) Mizzima Myanmar…

Fighting Breaks out in Panglng Township

Local People’s Defense Force (PDF) engaged in armed clashes with junta and Pa-O People’s Militia Force (Pa-O PMF) troops after they occupied buildings in Panglong Township, according to local sources. Since 6 March, junta and Pa-O PMF (also known as the PNA PMF) troops have occupied a school building and a Buddhist monastery in Bamauk […]

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KIA: Myanmar Junta Battalion Headquarters Seized

KIA: Myanmar Junta Battalion Headquarters Seized The Irrawaddy

Crisis in the Pa-O Region : A renewed conflict-zone in Myanmar

Crisis in the Pa-O Region : A renewed conflict-zone in Myanmar Transnational Institute

Myanmar junta evicts faculty and students from Kachin State’s Bhamo University

Mizzima The Myanmar junta instructed the faculty members, educational staff and students of Bhamo University to relocate to allow junta…

Myanmar Junta in Dire Trouble, Think Tank Says

Myanmar Junta in Dire Trouble, Think Tank Says Asia Sentinel

Crime & Narcotics

Over 800 Chinese Involved in Cross-Border Cybercrime Repatriated From Myanmar

Over 800 Chinese Involved in Cross-Border Cybercrime Repatriated From Myanmar Caixin Global

Economy

MNDAA Reopens Chinshwehaw Border Trade After Agreement with Junta

After reaching a deal with the Military Council, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) has reopened the Chinshwehaw border trade post in Laukkai Township, northern Shan State. Four meetings were convened between the Junta and MNDAA in Kunming, China, aiming to facilitate the reopening of the Chinshwehaw border trade post in Laukkai Township on […]

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Ethnic Issues

Understanding Myanmar's Ethnic Resistance Organizations • Stimson Center

Understanding Myanmar's Ethnic Resistance Organizations • Stimson Center Stimson Center

Why Shan State’s Formidable Armies Have Shunned the Fight Against Myanmar’s Junta

After six decades of political wrangling, assassinations and opium trading, Shan forces remain bitterly divided, lacking a common vision for their people.

Foreign Affairs

China tightens grip over internet during key political meeting

China operates some of the world’s most extensive censorship over the internet, blocking everything from Google to news websites /…

General News

Auction of Aung San Suu Kyi’s home in Myanmar attracts no bidders

Home being sold after supreme court ruling in dispute with Aung San Suu Kyi’s estranged brother, with the price reportedly set at tens of millions of dollars No bidders have appeared at an auction in Myanmar for the sale of the home of jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, for which the starting price was reported to be in the tens of millions of dollars. The family property on Yangon’s Inye Lake was up for auction by order of the supreme court, after a years-long legal battle between Aung San Suu Kyi, who was ousted in a 2021 coup, and her estranged brother Aung San Oo. Continue reading...

Blood Money launches campaign to ban aviation fuel to Myanmar junta

Blood Money launches campaign to ban aviation fuel to Myanmar junta Radio Free Asia

Myanmar: Time For Unity; The Military And Their Collaborators Should Belong On Ash Heap Of History – OpEd

Myanmar: Time For Unity; The Military And Their Collaborators Should Belong On Ash Heap Of History – OpEd Eurasia Review

Government Media Sources

Women put in list of military service registration in Hmawby Township: Misinformation

Malicious news media are spreading misinformation that women are included in the list of military service registration in the wards […]

Khit Thit malicious media circulates fake news alleging security forces

The subversive media outlet Khit Thit is spreading fake news on social media platforms, alleging that security forces set fire […]

Octane prices rebound slightly in recent upturn

Octane prices moved up slightly in the domestic fuel oil market as the MOPS price index ticked up. Fuel prices […]

Myanmar passport office updates procedures for PP applicants

The Myanmar Passport Office has announced that applicants who have made online bookings for passports need to have their UID […]

Yangon announces Thingyan water pavilion construction application process

It has been announced that requests for permission to construct water-playing pavilions for the Thingyan festival (the traditional water festival […]

False news: Young people in Yangon Region summoned by name to serve in military

Khit Thit, a malicious news media, spread false claims that four to 50 youths per ward and villages in townships […]

Military

Military conscription poised to start in Myanmar’s Yangon

Military conscription poised to start in Myanmar’s Yangon Radio Free Asia

Screws tighten in Myanmar’s conscription drive

File Photo of a road in Yangon on 8 February 2021 Mizzima Editorial In Myanmar’s major cities, young people –…

Village heads quit in anger over military recruitment in Myanmar’s Rakhine state

More than 20 administrators of villages in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state have resigned after the junta ordered them to choose residents for military service and to form militias amid preparations for nationwide conscription, sources with knowledge of the situation said Tuesday. The resignation of the 21 administrators in Rakhine’s Thandwe township on Monday followed a junta directive ordering them to select two residents from each large village and one each small one for military service, with a focus on those who had failed the country’s matriculation exam, a source close to one of the administrators told RFA Burmese.

Myanmar junta initiates conscription lotteries to select young people for training, frontline combat

Regime officials have been distributing the letter to eligible young people through the ward-level administration in the cities, and threatening to arrest those evading service or target their family members for forced enlistment. Aung Paing Min—a member of the military proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) in Lewe Township, Naypyitaw—posted a copy of a conscription summons letter on his social media page last week.