Despite Myanmar Ethnic Parties’ Bold Election Strategy, NLD Insists on Going It Alone

Aung La Nsang, the champion mixed-martial arts fighter, also known as the Burmese Python, has COVID-19 and is under quarantine.

NLD elder U Win Htein’s comment that Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing could become President if he backs charter reform does not reflect the party’s policy, a senior member said.

The army’s refusal to discuss the details of its prosecution of three military personnel over the massacre of 19 Rohingya has been criticized as a failure of justice.

Saw David Lah faces up to three years in prison for arranging a series of religious gatherings in April blamed for spreading coronavirus to at least 80 people.

Six European Union countries agreed to a one-year deferral for debt payments from Myanmar worth almost US$100 million, in a bid to help the country deal with COVID-19.

Myanmar’s general election will be held on Nov. 8, the UEC announced; it will be the country’s first nationwide poll held under a civilian government in six decades.

Military tensions with the Restoration Council of Shan State in Kyaukme this weekend saw the army allegedly shoot three civilians as hundreds of villagers fled their homes.