By Ra Wai / MPA At least 10 residents in Myanmar’s Yangon region have been arrested by the military council after their identity cards were used to open bank accounts for online fraud syndicates, known locally as "Kyar Phant". The arrests in Kayan Township follow a recruitment scheme during the 2025 rainy season, where agents working for the gangs reportedly offered locals 30,000 kyat...

By Nway / MPA Myanmar military troops have detained a married couple who were travelling to a clinic for medical treatment in the central Magway region, local sources say. The incident occurred on the morning of 5 February* at the Weilat Bridge checkpoint, a key entrance to the town of Gangaw. According to the local monitoring group Yaw Alin Tan, soldiers stopped four people—two...

By Nway / MPA Dr Sein Win, a prominent figure in Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement and the first cousin of detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has died in the United States at the age of 83. The National Unity Government (NUG), Myanmar's current parallel administration, confirmed that Dr Sein Win passed away on Friday morning in Maryland. Born into Myanmar’s most famous political family,...

By Ko Myo / MPA A young man has died and another has been injured after jumping from the fourth floor of a municipal building in Yangon, in a desperate attempt to escape forced recruitment into the military. The incident took place on the night of 6 February at the Ward 11 Administration Office in Hlaing Township. The two men had been detained as...

By Hsu Yee/MPA A young novice monk and five other civilians have been killed after Myanmar military fighter jets bombed a Buddhist monastery in the country's north-western Sagaing region on Thursday. Local sources told the Myanmar Pressphoto Agency (MPA) that the Mingala Monastery in Thitseik Kone village, Taze Township, was struck at approximately 10:00 local time. Witnesses described a scene of devastation, reporting that...