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By Saw Thuu / MPA Following Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s transition to the presidency, General Ye Win Oo has assumed the role of Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces. Shortly after taking the helm, the new army chief rolled out a strategic initiative widely seen as a move to prolong ...

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 ...

30 April 2026 By Wadi In the dark corners of pro-military Telegram channels in Myanmar, a chilling phrase has become a recurring command: "Burn it to ashes" (Pyar Cha Pay Par). This is not a call to dispose of waste. It is a direct incitement to destroy the homes and ...

27 April 2026 By Crystal "Surviving in this broken era feels like a never-ending nightmare. We console ourselves only with the grim realization that as long as the dictatorship remains, things could get even worse." These are the words of a 30-year-old woman living in Yangon, capturing the exhaustion that ...

By JPaing | MPA | April 16, 2026 As Myanmar marks the traditional Thingyan Water Festival, a profound internal debate has emerged within the pro-democracy movement. It is a dialogue between the "frontlines" and the "city streets," represented by two distinct perspectives: Maung Saung Kha, a revolutionary leader in the ...

By Ko Myo | April 16, 2026 On the outskirts of Mae Sot, Thailand, a young man nicknamed "Gyi-Taw-Chaw" (Little Fellow) pauses from cutting grass for cattle. His eyes drift toward the hazy mountains of the Myanmar border. "There is nothing more heartbreaking than not being able to go home ...

By Hsu Yee 14 April 2026 Analysis — In the murky corridors of Naypyidaw, a persistent rumor once circulated: Beijing was looking for a new face to lead Myanmar’s military government—anyone but Min Aung Hlaing. The speculation intensified after the first phase of the junta’s widely condemned general election on ...

By Mon Lay / MPA Throughout the reigns of military leaders Saw Maung, Than Shwe, and now Min Aung Hlaing, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has remained their greatest threat. As a symbol of democracy, the daughter of the nation’s independence hero, and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, her political ...

While the people of Myanmar struggle with a crippling fuel crisis—exacerbated by the spillover of the conflict in Iran—the military commission’s "killing machines" seem to have no shortage of aviation fuel. Across the country, civilians are forced into "odd-even" rationing systems for their daily commute, yet the sky remains thick ...

The current military and political landscape in Myanmar is shrouded in a complexity that goes far beyond conventional warfare. For those tracking the maneuvers of regional superpowers, the signals are increasingly ominous. Following the Kunming ceasefire talks, the military commission appears unable to resist China's gravity, seemingly trading national sovereignty ...