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Karen Armed Group Seizes Border Outpost From Myanmar Regime Forces

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War Against the Junta

By The Irrawaddy

The KNLA’s successful raid on the military outpost on the Salween River in Hpapun District came just a day after the junta chief vowed to crush resistance to his rule.

Yes, the Myanmar Military Really Could Implode

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Editorial

By The Irrawaddy

Rank-and-file soldiers are well aware they are despised by the people and led by incompetent and corrupt generals. Morale is low and recruitment has collapsed.  

Yangon Guerrillas Kill Myanmar Junta Money Laundering Chief

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News

By Hein Htoo Zan

The assassination of Minn Tayzar Nyunt Tin is another warning to all regime tycoons and associates, says the Urban Owls group.

Myanmar Junta Deployment Crushed: Kayah Resistance

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War Against the Junta

By The Irrawaddy

The Karenni Nationalities Defense Force claims resistance groups have killed around 90 regime troops in Demoso Township this week.

China Once Again on Wrong Side of History in Myanmar

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Commentary

By Aung Zaw

Strategic interests have led Beijing to make its support for the Myanmar junta more explicit in recent months, but it may come to regret doing so.

Sounds of the Loom Return to Myanmar’s Home of Traditional Weaving

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Features

By Yuzana

With the support of well-wishers, weavers in Sagaing who lost everything in regime arson attacks hope to rise from the ashes.

China ‘Increasingly Concerned’ About Instability in Post-Coup Myanmar: US Expert

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Interview

By Igor Blazevic

In the first part of an interview, Asia security expert Jason Tower discusses China’s evolving relationship with the Myanmar junta and northern ethnic armies.

Global Community Slammed for Failure to Act Over Myanmar Junta Atrocities

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Myanmar’s Crisis & the World

By The Irrawaddy

Rights groups blame inaction for increasing violence against and slaughter of resistance members and civilian population.

More than 80 Myanmar Junta Troops Killed in Week of Clashes: NUG  

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Burma

By Hein Htoo Zan

Acting battalion commander among the dead in fierce battles with PDF and resistance groups in Kayah and southern Shan State.  

NUG Demands Thai Energy Giant Switches Off Gas Payments to Myanmar Junta

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Myanmar’s Crisis & the World

By The Irrawaddy

PTTEP is given 30 days to comply with demand or face arbitration proceedings in Singapore.

Powerful Shan Party Refuses to Re-Register Under Myanmar Junta’s New Law

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Interview

By The Irrawaddy

The general secretary of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy told The Irrawaddy that the junta’s proposed election will be meaningless unless it brings positive change.

Myanmar Armed Ethnic Coalition and Chinese Special Envoy Meet in Kunming

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Burma

By The Irrawaddy

FPNCC urged to talk with Min Aung Hlaing, but truce with military regime seen as unlikely.

Kayah Resistance Commandos Seize Myanmar Junta Border Outpost

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Burma

By The Irrawaddy

Kayah special forces claim to have raided eight regime bases in recent months.

Indonesia ‘Working Behind the Scenes’ for Myanmar Peace

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Myanmar’s Crisis & the World

By The Irrawaddy

President Joko Widodo hints that ASEAN’s chair is now implementing plan to engage with all stakeholders in the country.

NLD Members Request Meeting With Detained Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

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Burma

By The Irrawaddy

Any meeting with Suu Kyi is likely to concern whether the National League for Democracy should register under the junta’s new law for political parties.