POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• Myanmar people at home and abroad on Monday have raised more than US$ 2.2 million in 11 days to provide anti-aircraft launchers for resistance fighters to counter the regime’s airstrikes against civilians and anti-regime fighters in the country. (The Irrawaddy) SAGAING• Kalay: on April 10th Read more…
SAGAING• Kalay: Burmese troops burned several houses in Nat Chaung village• Kalay: The Chindwin News Agency reports that the body of Lian Khaw Siam (23) has been found dead at the military hospital. He was missing since April 8th. His body show a gunshot in his leg and signs of Read more…
Resistance groups are increasing their attacks in Yangon. After the attack to Myanmar Central Bank vice-Governor Daw Than Than Swe who was shot at her house in Bahan Township, and yesterday’s attacks with rockets at the air force base in Mingaladon, a golf course and a military-controlled factory, today Resistance Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• 3 artillery shells fired by Resistance fighters hit the Yangon City Golf Course, the Mingaladon air force base, and a noodle factory in Yangon. A caddy was killed during the attacks.• The military regime is preparing to reopen the country to international tourism: foreigners wishing Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• US authorities said Thursday that they had arrested a Japanese yakuza organized crime leader and three Thai men who trafficked heroin and methamphetamine and tried to acquire surface-to-air missiles for rebel groups in Myanmar (UWSA, the Karen National Union and the Shan State Army) and Read more…
BBC Burmese reports that Thant Phone Wai Yan, a 4-year-old child, was abducted by regime soldiers at his kindergarten. Burmese soldiers were looking for the parents and decided to arrest the child when they did not find them. Nearly 300 children have been arrested since the 2021 coup. The UN Read more…
Journalists in Myanmar keep receiving incredibly harsh sentences for simply reporting what is happening in Myanmar. Outdated laws from the British colonial era, allow the military government to attack anyone at will, especially journalists, activists, opposing politicians, and members or supporters of the Resistance. There have been reports of young Read more…
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• A total of 135 journalists have been arrested in Myanmar since the Feb. 1, 2021, military coup that overthrew civilian rule in that country, according to a local press freedoms group. (Source: RFA)• The Myanmar military regime’s recent order halting all jade mining in Kachin Read more…
The fact that a representative of the military regime, guilty of several human rights violations, was allowed to attend the 34th ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) is just absurd. Make no mistake, ASEAN is recognizing the military junta de-facto. It did exclude Min Aung Hlaing from recent meetings, Read more…
Political prisoners in Monywa prison, Sagaing, started protesting by chanting anti-coup slogans. A prisoner was shot and killed and at least 5 were injured by a violent crackdown by regime soldiers. POLITICS, ECONOMY AND OTHER NEWS• New research by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) shows that online illegal wildlife trade Read more…