23 April 2026 By Poesangle NAUNG CHO, Myanmar — For the sugarcane farmers of Naung Cho, the end of active combat has brought little peace. Instead, the fields that once promised a bountiful harvest have become a deadly landscape of hidden landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO), claiming dozens of lives ...
By Poe Sangle / MPA Tensions within Myanmar's powerful anti-junta coalition have boiled over into armed clashes between two major ethnic rebel armies, sparking fears of a broader turf war in northern Shan State. Fighting has erupted in Kutkai Township between the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and the ...
By Ko Myo | MPA Northern Shan State, Myanmar — The leader of one of Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic armed groups has declared that its vast administrative territories were secured solely through military conquest rather than political dialogue, marking a triumphant tone during the group's national day celebrations on Monday ...
By Sayar Ngaat / MPA A prominent local journalist has been detained by an unidentified armed group in a resistance-controlled...
