POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• Myanmar air force chief General Htun Aung has apologised to his Thai counterpart after a Myanmar military fighter jet intruded into Thai airspace on Thursday (Source: The Irrawaddy)• The intrusion in Thai airspace happened while Burmese jet fighters were attacking Resistance groups near the Myanmar-Thai Read more…
The junta army shelled the artillery towards Madat village near Mindat from the artillery base in Mindat town, killing a 13-year-old boy where the artillery hit on Wednesday in the southern Chin state of Myanmar. (Source: The Chindwin) POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• The number of internally displaced people (IDP) Read more…
A Facebook video of a woman being beheaded last February by pro-regime troops in Myaing Township, Magway, is circulating online. Although we are all aware of the cruelty of the Burmese military, videos like this are shocking. The lack of intervention by the international community and the lack of media Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• The Pa-O National Liberation Organization (PNLO) says it has reached agreements with the military regime. Major ethnic organizations refused to negotiate with the Burmese military.• DVB reports on criminal gangs operating in Myawaddy near the Thai border and in Laukkai, near the Chinese border. These Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• ASEAN Special Envoy Prak Sokhonn will not be allowed to meet with Aung San Suu Kyi on his second visit to Myanmar, military council spokesman Gen. Zaw Min Tun told RFA. SAGAING• Khin U: regime troops abducted around 50 civilians during a raid in Ba Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been reportedly moved to Naypyidaw prison and will be held in solitary confinement. She was under house arrest since the February 2021 military coup• Australia will not take part in an upcoming meeting on counter-terrorism to be co-chaired by Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• Regarding the junta’s plan to execute 4 pro-democracy activists, including Ko Jimmy and Phyo Zeya Thaw, Nicholas Koumjian, head of the UN’s Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, said ‘Imposing a death sentence, or even a period of detention, on the basis of proceedings that do Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• The military minister of defence will be invited at the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM).• A cold war between the Arakan Army (AA) and the Burmese military is currently underway. 10 people were recently arrested by the military regime in Ponnagyun, Arakan State, just a Read more…
Phyu Phyu Khine, a 29-year-old lawyer killed herself after the Burmese military took her relatives as hostages in Patheingyi township, Mandalay. Her brother and sister were arrested and tortured after the soldiers failed to find her. Phyu Phyu Khine was part of the Mandalay Lawyers Strike group POLITICS, ECONOMY AND Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• “The Pagoda is closed today due to the death penalty”, says a banner put at the one of the entrances of the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. The banner refers to the junta’s intention to execute 4 pro-democracy activists and politicians• A Russian cargo operated by Read more…