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    • NewsPresident Win Myint, centre, is flanked by Aung San Suu Kyi and his wife, first lady Cho Cho, at the presidential residence in 2018 (Photo: Ministry of Information)
      Maung Shwe WahApril 17, 2026

      Win Myint, Myanmar’s ousted president, released by regime

      There are also unconfirmed rumours that Aung San Suu Kyi could soon be moved from prison and placed under house arrest

    • NewsHuman rights activists call for the release of Myanmar Now photojournalist Sai Zaw Thaike during a protest in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 8 (Photo: Amnesty International Thailand)
      Maung Shwe WahApril 9, 2026

      Insein Prison authorities deny medical treatment to seriously ill Myanmar Now journalist

      Sai Zaw Thaike has been denied permission to receive urgently needed surgery, according to prison sources

    • NewsKyi Myo Zaw or U Kyi, 54, from Yangon’s Hlaing Township (Photo: U Kyi’s Facebook profile)
      Maung Shwe WahMarch 30, 2026

      Critic of Myanmar junta denied amnesty, sentenced to hard labour

      A bicycle courier in his 50s was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour after pro-junta propagandists accused him of disparaging Myanmar’s junta leader and funding terrorists

    • NewsA building on the four-storey monastery compound caught fire in the March 20 junta airstrike in Katha (Photo: Indaw Revolution-IR)
      Maung Shwe WahMarch 24, 2026

      Dozens estimated killed in Katha monastery airstrike

      The Myanmar military has continued to carry out aerial bombing campaigns nearly every day even as global fuel shortages exacerbated by events in the Middle East have forced cancellations of commercial flights

    • NewsA protester holds a placard supporting the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) and its armed wing, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), during an anti-coup protest in Hpakant, Kachin State in May 2021 (Photo: AFP)
      Maung Shwe WahMarch 17, 2026

      KIA captures army, SNA security bases in Kachin State

      Forces led by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) overran two security outposts near Indawgyi Lake manned by junta soldiers and members of the Shanni Nationalities Army (SNA)

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