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26 May 2026 By Ra Wai / MPA Justice For Myanmar (JFM) has welcomed a decision by Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to suspend a private placement share sale by a Thai public company to entities linked to Sky Aviator, a notorious Myanmar military arms brokerage network. The regulatory ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

25 May 2026 By Nway MYAING, Myanmar — Joint anti-junta resistance forces have overrun a heavily fortified pro-military militia village in Magway Region, capturing nearly 40 personnel including active-duty soldiers despite a barrage of retaliatory state airstrikes, military sources confirmed. The coordinated assault on Thayet Kan—a notorious base for the ...

24 May 2026 By Naing Yarzar Min At Yangon General Hospital—Myanmar’s oldest and most historic medical institution—a predatory network of extortionists operates with near-total impunity. For ordinary citizens seeking life-saving treatment, navigating the hospital has become a gauntlet of financial exploitation, where bribes are extracted at every turn. Despite the ...

25 May 2026 By Foe Aww Yaw NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Myanmar’s military junta leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, has unveiled plans to establish computerized greenhouse networks to boost agricultural exports, a move independent experts have swiftly dismissed as a hollow fantasy due to the country's collapsed electrical grid and ...

23 May 2026 By Poesangle NAWNGHKIO, Myanmar — Corrupt officials from the Ministry of Immigration and Population are systematically extorting war-weary residents in the junta-controlled town of Nawnghkio, charging vulnerable families between 100,000 to 500,000 Myanmar Kyat (MMK)_150 USD just to replace national identity cards lost during active combat. The ...

23 May 2026 By Nway KANPETLET, Myanmar — A strategic mountaintop town in southern Chin State is being rapidly evacuated following an ultimatum by ethnic resistance forces, as intense, close-quarters combat with nearly 1,000 advancing military junta troops rages right at the city's gates. Heavy fighting has entered its third ...