POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• Hun Sen, Cambodia Prime Minister and current ASEAN chairman, urged the Myanmar military regime not to execute the 4 pro-democracy activists and politicians that were sentenced to death for opposing the military coup. Former NLD lawmaker Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw and the popular activist Ko Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• According to the World Bank Global Economic Prospects report, “Myanmar’s economy appears to be stabilizing after a steep 18 percent contraction in fiscal year 2021. The near-term outlook remains fragile owing to sharply higher input prices, recurring electricity outages, escalating conflict, and the recent introduction Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• Myo Min Htut, a driver for the World Health Organization in Myanmar, was shot dead in Mawlamyine, Mon State. A local resistance group called the People’s Defense Organization Mawlamyine initially claimed responsibility for the killing, saying he was a military informant and relative of Lieutenant-General Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• According to the Karen National Union (KNU), around 300 regime troops have been killed in Karen State in May, and a total of 1800 have been killed in the past 5 months• As local organizations and foreign governments and institutions are condemning the Burmese military Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• 59 Rohingya people have been found on a Thai island. They were probably abandoned by human traffickers. They now risk deportation to Myanmar• Mizzima reports a 40% drop in Myanmar student enrolment this year, compared to pre-coup levels• Regime soldiers seized truck full of weapons Read more…
SAGAING• Khin U: a 79 year-old woman was set on fire by the Burmese military during a raid in Thagara village• Kalay: regime troops burned several houses in Natchaung village KACHIN STATE• Shweku: the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) attacked and seized a military base in Pang Khon Yan village KARENNI Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• A total of 70 members of the Military Council and Karen Border Guard Forces (BGF) were killed during clashes in May in the KNU’s 1st Brigade area, Thaton District, Kayin State, according to a statement by the Karen National Union (KNU) released 2 June. (Source: Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• The military regime confirms the death sentences by hanging of prominent Resistance leaders Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw and Ko Jimmy. • They were arrested for leading Resistance groups. Although the military regime sentenced over 100 civilians to death since the military coup, there have been Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• The military regime is no longer requiring a pre-flight Covid screening test for passengers who already received 3 doses of vaccine• Ai San Ming, an ethnic Wa, was sentenced to death by the military regime in Tachileik, Shan State for allegedly throwing a bomb at Read more…
