Tag: MPA

YANGON, Myanmar — The Myanmar military authorities are introducing stringent new security checks at Yangon International Airport, requiring all domestic and international travelers to undergo detailed identity verification by aviation police. A directive from the Yangon International Airport Joint Coordination Committee states that the measures are designed to ensure "law ...

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 ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Despite a crippling fuel shortage that has paralyzed much of the commercial capital, Myanmar’s military junta has intensified its campaign of forced conscription, with monitoring groups reporting a significant spike in "street abductions" across Yangon in March. The Rangoon Scout Network (RSN), a local monitoring group, documented ...

CANBERRA, Australia — An influential Australian parliamentary committee has called on the federal government to significantly sharpen its policy toward the Myanmar military, urging a formal rejection of upcoming "sham" elections and the imposition of sanctions on state-controlled banks. The report, titled by the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, ...

YANGON, Myanmar — The National Unity Party (NLD) has issued a defiant statement asserting that no political solution can be reached in Myanmar without the direct involvement of its detained leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. In a social media statement released on Saturday, the party emphasized that the Nobel laureate ...

SALIN, Myanmar — Three civilians were arbitrarily detained by Myanmar military forces on Saturday morning while performing agricultural work in Salin Township, part of the conflict-torn Magway Region. According to the local monitoring group Pyithu Nyidaw-Salin, a military column of approximately 30 soldiers entered Taung Kan village at around 7:00 ...

MAGWAY, Myanmar — At least four members of the People’s Defence Forces (PDF) have been killed following a heavy aerial bombardment by the Myanmar military on an oil field in Magway Region. The attack, which took place on the afternoon of April 4, 2026, targeted a security outpost at the ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Activist groups and military defectors have warned that Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s formal ascension to the presidency will lead to an even higher death toll among frontline soldiers, as the military doubles down on its violent campaign to secure the junta chief's political ambitions. The advocacy ...

By Cherry May / MPA April 3rd will be recorded as a day of national shame in Myanmar’s history. Military junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has finally fulfilled his lifelong ambition, assuming the presidency through a puppet parliament acting out a script he wrote himself. However, to the people of ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar is experiencing a period of extreme thermal stress, with six of its cities currently listed among the 15 hottest locations in the world, according to data from global weather monitoring site EldoradoWeather. On April 2, 2026, Minbu in Magway Region recorded a blistering 43.2°C (109.8°F), placing ...