Tag: Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar — Following a high-level leadership shuffle within Myanmar’s military, the nation has seen a dramatic surge in aerial bombardments, with the new Commander-in-Chief reportedly deploying larger fleets of fighter jets to strike resistance-held territories and civilian infrastructure. General Ye Win Oo, who officially took over the role of ...

YE TOWNSHIP, Myanmar — Forced into service under a contentious national conscription law, an increasing number of new recruits are fleeing the Myanmar military to join the very resistance forces they were sent to fight. The Ye Guerrilla Force (YGF), an armed resistance group operating in southern Mon State, confirmed ...

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — China’s newly appointed ambassador to Myanmar, Ms. Ma Jia, has expressed confidence that the country will "prosper" under the leadership of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, marking the first formal diplomatic endorsement of the junta chief’s self-styled presidency. During a meeting held in the capital on Friday, ...

YANGON, Myanmar — At least 265 civilians have been killed in Myanmar over a four-week period as the military junta’s leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, moved to formally install himself as President, according to new data from a prominent research group. The report by Nyan Lin Thit Research Group ...

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 ...