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Myanmar NowNovember 13, 2025

Three executed for murder in MNDAA-controlled Mongko

The ethnic Kokang armed group also handed lengthy sentences to two other prisoners who were paraded in the town of Tuesday

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Aung NaingNovember 13, 2025

Hong Kong-based company to resume work on electric power projects in Yangon

Two projects, initiated under the civilian administration of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and suspended after the 2021 military…
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Myanmar NowNovember 13, 2025

Junta struggles to regain territory ahead of election push

Despite fresh offensives and a northern ceasefire reprieve, the military’s push to retake territory ahead of the election is stalling…
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Saw RehNovember 13, 2025

The Myanmar prisoner who regained his freedom—with a spoon

Three years after making a daring escape from one of the junta’s notorious interrogation centres, a young resistance fighter remains…

November 12, 2025

Future uncertain for Mogok, Mongmit after planned handover to Myanmar military

With resistance forces refusing to relinquish control of the towns despite a ceasefire between the military and Ta’ang National Liberation…

November 12, 2025

Four junta soldiers killed in Mandalay’s Ngazun Township; 12 locals arrested

The regime forces were among around 100 travelling through the area when they were hit by a landmine attack on…

November 12, 2025

Junta charges Karen leader and other opposition figures under new election laws

The regime’s latest arrests under harsh election laws highlight a widening crackdown on dissent

November 12, 2025

Teen rescued days after migrant shipwreck off Malaysia

Malaysian authorities said another eight bodies had been recovered by Tuesday afternoon, taking the total to 20

November 12, 2025

Images show Myanmar scam hub largely standing despite crackdown

Satellite imagery contradicts junta claims of demolishing a notorious Myanmar scam hub, revealing most of KK Park still intact

November 11, 2025

Warplanes kill eight in Sagaing as junta launches wave of new airstrikes

Locals say the military is stepping up air and ground assaults across Sagaing ahead of planned elections, targeting villages with…

November 11, 2025

Myanmar military seizes key hill position from Chin resistance

The Taingen outpost, linking Chin State’s Falam and Tedim towns, had been under Chin resistance control since early 2024

November 11, 2025

Thai court rules Chinese scam hub tycoon to be extradited

Arrested in Thailand in 2022 for allegedly running vast transnational trafficking and online fraud operations from Myanmar’s border regions, She…

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Arakan Army troops in January 2024, two months into an offensive that has since seen the group take control of much of Rakhine State (Photo: Arakan Princess Media)

August 14, 2025

Is the war in Myanmar approaching its ‘culminating point’?

August 1, 2025

Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing: The dictator who would be president

Julie Bishop addresses the UN General Assembly as Australia’s foreign minister in September 2015 (UN Photo / Cia Pak)

April 4, 2025

Bishop’s dual crises: Myanmar role under fire amid ANU turmoil

February 28, 2025

Argentina’s arrest warrants and Myanmar’s reckoning with justice

December 16, 2024

There’s no stopping the Myanmar junta’s downfall now

October 11, 2024

Despite ban, regime officials continue to represent Myanmar at ASEAN meetings

A truck coming from Myanmar waits to cross over into Thailand at the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Thailand’s Mae Sot District on April 12 (Manan Vatsyayana / AFP)

April 26, 2024

What was behind the KNLA’s withdrawal from Myawaddy?

This photo taken on February 4, 2024 shows a building destroyed and a damaged Buddha statue (L) following fighting between the military and the Kachin Independence Army in Namphetka, Kutkai Township, northern Shan State—the region where Operation 1027 took place in the months prior (AFP)

March 6, 2024

What has changed in northern Shan State since Operation 1027?

Vice Senior General Soe Win visits injured soldiers at Mingaladon Military Hospital in Yangon in late December 2023 (State Administration Council)

January 29, 2024

Three years on, Myanmar’s military remains on the road to ruin

November 28, 2023

As Myanmar junta loses its grip over border, its ties with China also show signs of slipping

November 23, 2023

Laukkai’s transformation from gambling city to scam hub

November 10, 2023

As Shan State burns, Myanmar’s dictator frets over China ties

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October 23, 2025

Photo essay: Yangon’s port workers struggle to make ends meet amid soaring prices

The dock workers in Yangon’s ports often have few options for supporting their families as the cost of living rises…

October 9, 2025

The junta chief’s autocratic globetrotting and political survival

Having withstood nearly five years of armed resistance from within, failed diplomacy from neighbours, and ineffectual pressure from the West,…

October 1, 2025

Genocide and massacres in Myanmar: The case for accountability has never been stronger

Overwhelming evidence of atrocities by the country’s military demands action from the international community

September 17, 2025

Telenor should be investigated

The state-owned company’s compliance with the Myanmar junta have put Norway’s reputation as a supporter of democracy and human rights…

August 29, 2025

Myanmar military’s sham election is yet another setback for gender equality

December’s election is set to cement the military’s culture of misogyny, further eroding women’s rights

August 22, 2025

Myanmar Now at 10: A decade of chronicling Myanmar’s struggle for democracy

This month marks the 10th anniversary of Myanmar Now, which began its journey in August 2015.

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