Villagers have been forced to flee in Tanintharyi Region after junta troops responded to an attack on a police station with artillery strikes.
The 76-year-old who had already been jailed to six years for other charges was sentenced five more years for corruption on Wednesday.
At least 30,000 people have been displaced in two townships in Sagaing Region this month, as junta forces burn villages after suffering heavy casualties.
Trade with Thailand has been restricted since the closure of the Myawaddy border.
Min Aung Hlaing’s two Yangon properties are among the regime-owned and confiscated real estate that the NUG will put on sale soon.
Two men’s bodies and a heavily wounded woman were dumped in Mandalay in response to a resistance threat.
Min Aung Hlaing’s call for talks is seen as a desperate attempt to reduce attacks from ethnic armed organizations while the regime battles the people's defense forces.
One year after the bloc’s failed Five-Point Consensus was agreed, western countries were also criticized for a lack of action and standing behind ASEAN’s hollow words.
Soldiers and pro-junta militia have committed multiple rapes in Mandalay Region since the coup.
Min Aung Hlaing has decorated regime figures and spent hundreds of billions of kyats on titles and pensions when the economy is in chaos.
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