Wathone Nyein Aye, Author at Myanmar Now

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Wathone Nyein AyeApril 15, 2022

Woman abducted by junta with 3-year-old son accused of ties to urban guerrilla forces

Information obtained from the woman while in detention led to the arrest of resistance force members allegedly planning bombings during Thingyan, the Myanmar military claims

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Wathone Nyein AyeApril 12, 2022

Junta soldiers detain woman along with her son on his third birthday

After blindfolding Ma Wai and taking her away, troops arrived at her son’s kindergarten to take him too

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Wathone Nyein AyeApril 5, 2022

Married couple arrested at anti-junta protest hit with hefty sentences

The pair have been separated from their son and the husband was allegedly tortured after his arrest, his lawyer said

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Wathone Nyein AyeApril 5, 2022

Chin fighters kill 16 junta soldiers in day-long clash

The soldiers were part of a column of reinforcements heading towards Matupi

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Wathone Nyein AyeApril 1, 2022

Teen sentenced to 10 years in Myanmar prison for alleged $7 donation to resistance group

A former inmate who met the 19-year-old woman inside Dawei Prison says she allegedly gave the small donation to a guerrilla force over a mobile wallet app

Wathone Nyein Aye

Woman abducted by junta with 3-year-old son accused of ties to urban guerrilla forces

Junta soldiers detain woman along with her son on his third birthday

Married couple arrested at anti-junta protest hit with hefty sentences

Chin fighters kill 16 junta soldiers in day-long clash

Teen sentenced to 10 years in Myanmar prison for alleged $7 donation to resistance group

European govts back company that uses Chinese tech to monitor Myanmar internet users

Trapped in a war zone: Civilians and the displaced in Nawnghkio, northern Shan State

‘Don’t leave me behind’: The earthquake that shattered a Buddhist sanctuary

‘Still haunted’ by Nargis: Remembering the worst disaster in Myanmar’s history

Airstrike by Myanmar’s military kills three women in Mandalay Region’s Myingyan Township

Myanmar air force kills six in bombing near Magway Region oil fields

Demand for high-rise apartments drops in Yangon after quake

Kachin fighters bring down junta helicopters near Bhamo

Teenager killed in airstrike on resistance-held gold-mining village north of Mandalay

Myanmar junta airstrikes kill three civilians sheltering in Rakhine State monastery

Myanmar’s factories cling to life as power shortages persist

Bought Out or Seized: Mandalay farmers face impossible choices amid land grab

Myanmar junta partners with Chinese firm to build natural gas terminal despite Rakhine State conflict

Myanmar garment makers forced to exchange export earnings at junta-imposed rate

Thai officials call on Myanmar regime to crack down on fraud, trafficking gangs on Thai-Karen State border

Myanmar military continues to lose ground to anti-junta forces in northern Shan State

Despite escalating violence, Myanmar junta leader says elections will proceed

NUG-founded bank set to sell shares to meet ‘emergency needs’

Myanmar’s junta bears ‘sole responsibility’ for Suu Kyi’s health—NLD

Karenni youth fight for freedom at the cost of their lives and limbs

The mothers of the Magway resistance

A Myanmar artist finds freedom behind bars—by portraying prisoners’ oppression

As Myanmar’s revolution beckons, a new breed of activist photographers heeds the call

The man behind the Myanmar junta’s campaign of terror in Sagaing

Authorities tighten restrictions on passport process for Myanmar nationals in Thailand