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Aung NaingNovember 21, 2023

Junta warns against large bank withdrawals amid financial uncertainty

Banks close their branches in areas seized by resistance forces, and the coup regime threatens to prosecute individuals attempting major cash withdrawals in other areas of the country

Junta briefly detains KBZ Bank executive at airport

Nang Lang Kham, deputy CEO of KBZ Bank and daughter of tycoon Aung Ko Win, is interrogated for two hours in Yangon’s airport

KBZ Bank robbed in northern Shan State

It is the fourth bank robbery in Myanmar in recent months, but the perpetrators have yet to be identified

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Junta warns against large bank withdrawals amid financial uncertainty

Junta briefly detains KBZ Bank executive at airport

KBZ Bank robbed in northern Shan State

‘The sense of safety and security for Myanmar women is declining by the day’ – An advocate for abuse survivors speaks out

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

‘Treat Them as Humans’: Inside Myanmar’s resistance POW prisons

‘To light the way for others, we must be willing to risk getting burned’: resistance leader

Rohingya militants accused of war crimes in Bangladesh camps

Myanmar relief camps receive last World Food Programme aid as cuts begin

Myanmar records steep fall in number of students taking matriculation exams

Ongoing airstrikes in Singu Township kill 35, including women and children

Myanmar junta air raids outside Bhamo kill seven, including Kachin fighters

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

International payment services suspended for Myanmar users

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