By Naing Yarzar Min / MPA Following the Myanmar military’s brutal crackdown on the 1988 pro-democracy mass uprising, thousands of students and young activists fled to the jungle frontiers to take up arms against the dictatorship. Among them was the country’s legendary musician, Htoo Eain Thin, who channelled the spirit of the resistance into a poignant masterpiece titled "Thway Thit Sar" (The Blood Oath)....

26 May 2026 By Ko Myo HPA-AN, Myanmar — A military airstrike has struck a residential area in the opposition-controlled town of Kyaikdon, killing three women and leaving a teenager severely wounded, ethnic Karen administrative authorities announced on Tuesday. The attack occurred at approximately 12:30 PM on Sunday, 24 May, when a single junta fighter jet dropped ordnance near the entrance bridge of Kyaikdon,...

26 May 2026 By Ra Wai CHAUNGZON, Myanmar — More than 10,000 acres of vital rice fields in Mon State’s Chaungzon Township have been left completely uncultivated this season, after the ruling military junta refused to allocate subsidized diesel fuel for agricultural machinery, local farmers and monitors report. The agricultural crisis unfolded during the crucial plowing and dry-seeding months of March and April. Local...

25 May 2026 By Ko Myo MANDALAY, Myanmar — Armed military personnel and regime administrators in the town of Kyaukpadaung, Mandalay Region, have begun widening their forced conscription net to target elderly men, using arbitrary detentions as a lucrative extortion racket to fund military operations. For nearly two years, young pedestrians, motorcyclists, and migrant laborers from nearby villages have been systematically rounded up on...

25 May 2026 By Mon Lay NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Khin Yi, the leader of the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and nominal speaker of the regime's unrecognized Pyithu Hluttaw (House of Representatives), has asserted that the junta-created assembly must act as a primary mechanism to shield the state from what he termed domestic and international aggression. Addressing the USDP Central Executive Committee...