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- Explainer: Who are the companies and cronies backing Myanmar junta leader’s Thailand visit?by kaung (Myanmar Now) on August 7, 2026 at 9:59 am
Some familiar faces could be seen in Bangkok on Thursday, as Min Aung Hlaing continues to use economic enticements to win international acceptance
- From palace stages to exile: A Myanmar dancer who chose conscience over ceremonyby kaung (Myanmar Now) on August 7, 2026 at 8:49 am
A respected performer sacrifices status and security to live among his country’s uprooted and oppressed
- AA says it is blocking the Myanmar military’s attempt to advance into Rakhine State from Ayeyarwadyby kaung (Myanmar Now) on August 7, 2026 at 7:13 am
Despite a bolstered junta offensive and intensifying air attacks, the AA says it is blocking regime attempts to enter Rakhine State and have seized several bases during the clashes
- Thailand backs greater ASEAN role for Myanmar junta as Min Aung Hlaing visits Bangkokby kaung (Myanmar Now) on August 6, 2026 at 12:04 pm
The two countries agree to push for greater economic cooperation, as critics blast the visit for legitimising and enriching the regime
- Myanmar junta raids online scam hub in southern Shan, arrests 49 including 38 Chinese nationalsby kaung (Myanmar Now) on August 6, 2026 at 8:37 am
Despite the raids, residents say the cyberscam networks remain resilient, relocating to militia-controlled areas in Shan and Karen states to evade crackdowns
- Myanmar junta launches counteroffensive after KIA, allies seize outpost near Shweguby kaung (Myanmar Now) on August 6, 2026 at 7:46 am
Airstrikes and heavy artillery fire have been reported in the area since allied Kachin forces overran the outpost on Monday
- Investment, energy sector talks to dominate Myanmar junta leader’s visit to Thailandby swewin (Myanmar Now) on August 6, 2026 at 3:25 am
The visit comes as rights groups accuse Thailand of helping sustain the junta through energy revenues and access to the international banking system
- Wa delegation holds talks with Myanmar junta as analysts see possible political concessionsby kaung (Myanmar Now) on August 5, 2026 at 10:41 am
Two days of meetings in Naypyitaw fuel speculation on possible progress on long-sought political demands, including statehood
- Imprisoned NLD member’s health worsens after regime denies breast cancer treatment for almost one yearby kaung (Myanmar Now) on August 5, 2026 at 9:52 am
The NLD member is one of five female party members jointly arrested last year, two of whom have been denied adequate medical treatment in Mandalay’s Obo prison
- Fighting intensifies as Myanmar junta pushes into former DKBA territory near Myawaddyby kaung (Myanmar Now) on August 5, 2026 at 8:04 am
The push into southern Myawaddy Township comes as the regime renews claims of a crackdown on scam centres
- Where is the civil war in Myanmar heading next?by [email protected] (UCA News) on July 21, 2026 at 12:49 pm
Myanmar’s military is regaining ground, but resistance groups are regrouping, and civilians continue to suffer
- Floods in Myanmar displace thousands amid ongoing military strikesby [email protected] (UCA News) on July 13, 2026 at 8:30 am
Amid natural disaster, social media also witnessed surge in anti-Rakhine rhetoric from military’s supporters
- The devastating human toll of Myanmar’s civil warby [email protected] (UCA News) on July 5, 2026 at 4:30 am
Millions of innocent citizens are displaced as brutal violence tears apart families across divided Myanmar
- Myanmar’s hidden war : one hundred thousand deadby [email protected] (UCA News) on July 4, 2026 at 4:30 am
A brutal civil war in Myanmar has claimed one hundred thousand lives over five years
- Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing visits Laos in ASEAN diplomatic pushby [email protected] (UCA News) on July 3, 2026 at 6:45 am
Min Aung Hlaing’s first state visit to an ASEAN country as president highlights Myanmar’s bid for regional legitimacy
- Myanmar’s forgotten civil war claims one hundred thousand livesby [email protected] (UCA News) on July 3, 2026 at 3:30 am
The world has looked away from Myanmar’s brutal civil war. Five years after a military coup, the staggering death toll has topped one hundred thousand
- ASEAN request to meet Aung San Suu Kyi denied by Myanmar juntaby [email protected] (UCA News) on July 2, 2026 at 11:52 am
Hlaing to visit Laos in first official visit to an ASEAN country as ‘president’
- Myanmar junta airstrike kills 8, including 4 childrenby [email protected] (UCA News) on June 30, 2026 at 5:17 am
Bombing of Sagaing Township targeted civilians for no reason; there was no active fighting in the area, local monitor says
- How war and poverty are driving Myanmar’s drug crisisby [email protected] (UCA News) on June 29, 2026 at 2:31 am
As drugs flood urban areas, recovering addicts, community leaders fear a lost generation is emerging amid ongoing conflict
- Myanmar junta jails nun for eight months under repressive lawby [email protected] (UCA News) on June 26, 2026 at 5:11 am
Sister Benedetta Nya Moe provided medical care, food and nutrition to displaced people
- China and Russia vie for Myanmar’s Tungsten mountby [email protected] (UCA News) on June 23, 2026 at 5:15 am
Minerals extracted from Loi Khi Lek are directly bankrolling atrocities against civilians, say rights activists
- Indigenous rights, war and religion in Myanmarby [email protected] (UCA News) on June 19, 2026 at 11:34 am
Scott Johnson discusses faith, ethnic resistance and the shifting realities of Myanmar’s civil war after years spent alongside rebel forces
- On Suu Kyi’s 81st birthday, Myanmar must prove she is aliveby [email protected] (UCA News) on June 19, 2026 at 2:38 am
Six years into detention, Aung San Suu Kyi’s whereabouts and condition remain unknown as junta intensifies its repression
- Myanmar detains US businessman who wrote about 2021 coupby [email protected] (UCA News) on June 13, 2026 at 3:21 pm
Adam Castillo is a former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar
- Five Myanmar bishops forced from dioceses amid civil warby [email protected] (UCA News) on June 9, 2026 at 4:05 am
Ongoing conflict has displaced clergy and parishioners, shuttered churches and deepened country’s humanitarian crisis
- Myanmar’s farmers are running out of everything — and the world barely noticesby [email protected] (UCA News) on June 3, 2026 at 12:30 am
A war thousands of miles away is starving Myanmar’s paddy fields of fuel and fertilizer
- Myanmar was once the world’s rice bowl. Now its farmers want to quit.by [email protected] (UCA News) on June 2, 2026 at 2:30 pm
From the world’s top rice exporter to a country where farmers fear they may soon vanish altogether
- Myanmar’s farmers face collapse as Middle East war starves fieldsby [email protected] (UCA News) on June 2, 2026 at 5:00 am
As the US-Iran conflict chokes global supply chains, Myanmar’s rice farmers — already broken by civil war — are running out of seeds, fuel, and will
- Blast at rebel-held mining exposive site kills dozens in Myanmarby [email protected] (UCA News) on June 1, 2026 at 7:20 am
Rescue workers warn of an increase in the death toll as searches continue through destroyed homes
- Myanmar’s civil war: Hunger, displacement, and the taste of homeby [email protected] (UCA News) on May 22, 2026 at 12:30 pm
A brutal civil war has plunged Myanmar’s Rakhine state into a hunger crisis
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