Ousted NLD member Daw Sandar Min, ethnic party chief Dr. Aye Maung and NP News founder lobbied Japanese MPs against anti-regime resistance, urged them to back junta poll.
The Karen National Union has disassociated itself from former chairman Saw Mutu Say Phoe, who attended “peace talks” in Naypyitaw at the weekend.
The ethnic armed organization said ex-chairman Saw Mutu Say Phoe’s talks with Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyitaw would have no impact on the KNU’s ongoing war against the regime.
State media said the program had started in Karen, Bago and Mandalay, and would include Naypyitaw. The census is a prerequisite for the regime’s planned general election.
The purging of confidants Lt-Gen Moe Myint Tun and Lt-Gen Soe Htut is a humiliation for Min Aung Hlaing and will force him to rely on generals less beholden to...
The regime’s literacy drive is a transparent attempt to discredit the revolution, which includes many striking doctors, university students and other educated people.
A total of 135 out of 222 Malaysian MPs say Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners must be released by Myanmar's junta.
Deng Xijun’s visit coincides with UN General Assembly, where decision is expected on Myanmar’s permanent representative.
In his new book, former Yangon CIA station chief Barry Broman is either ignorant of, or covering up, the Myanmar military’s historic involvement in the drug trade.
The National League for Democracy says it holds the junta solely responsible for the jailed leader’s declining health.
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