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Tin Htet PaingApril 3, 2022

As coup turns back the clock, many in Myanmar resist a return to ‘old normal’

Memories of what life was like under previous regimes have hardened attitudes towards the one now in power

In-Depth

Tin Htet PaingFebruary 1, 2022

Timeline: Myanmar’s year of resistance

Myanmar Now reviews key events of the first year of a new struggle to end Myanmar’s long history of oppression

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Myanmar NowFebruary 22, 2021

More than a dozen protesters detained in Naypyitaw

Security forces also tried to arrest several journalists but they managed to escape

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Myanmar NowFebruary 13, 2021

Prominent Rakhine nationalists among prisoners released in amnesty

Arakan Front Party chair Dr. Aye Maung and writer Wai Hin Aung were both serving 20-year sentences for sedition

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Myanmar NowFebruary 13, 2021

Election officials being held in military detention centres

The new ruling junta started rounding up local-level members of the Union Election Commission on Wednesda

2021uprising

As coup turns back the clock, many in Myanmar resist a return to ‘old normal’

Timeline: Myanmar’s year of resistance

More than a dozen protesters detained in Naypyitaw

Prominent Rakhine nationalists among prisoners released in amnesty

Election officials being held in military detention centres

Myanmar army troops torch hundreds of houses in Myingyan Township

KIA, allies seize Myanmar junta’s Sezin base in Hpakant Township

Myanmar junta says its troops have taken back trade hub on Thai border

Myanmar regime continues to stoke ethnic tensions as fighting rages on in northern Rakhine

Give credit where it’s due: An open letter to Hunterbrook Media

Junta’s conscription plan will only hasten the end of military rule in Myanmar

Myanmar’s junta is up to its old tricks with attempt to play the ‘Suu Kyi card’

Thingyan massacre reveals depths of Myanmar junta’s depravity—and its growing desperation

Myanmar army troops torch hundreds of houses in Myingyan Township

KIA, allies seize Myanmar junta’s Sezin base in Hpakant Township

Myanmar junta says its troops have taken back trade hub on Thai border

Myanmar regime continues to stoke ethnic tensions as fighting rages on in northern Rakhine

Three civilians killed in junta airstrikes near Sagaing Region’s border with India

Myanmar regime scrambles to deal with loss of border trade hubs

Myanmar’s economy declines despite junta claims of progress

Myanmar junta detains gold traders for ‘unlicensed transactions’

Foreign commerce falls by more than 11 percent

MNDAA reopens two Myanmar-China border trading points

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