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The Myanmar army torched villages on the east bank of the Ayeyarwady River in Myingyan Township on April 20 and 21 after the resistance forces launched coordinated assaults on four military targets simultaneously.

Aung NaingApril 24, 2024

Myanmar army troops torch hundreds of houses in Myingyan Township

A junta column raided villages on the east bank of the Ayeyarwady River in Mandalay Region in response to resistance attacks on army bases and pro-junta militias

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Aung NaingJanuary 30, 2024

Myanmar regime forces kill five youths near Myingyan

None of the five victims were members of an anti-regime group, according a source close to some of them

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Htoo AungNovember 1, 2023

Myanmar junta set to reopen second major plant in its bid for steel

Once operational, the iron mill in Pinpet, southern Shan State is expected to provide feedstock by railway to a steelmaking facility Myingyan, Mandalay Region

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Nay Min NiJune 28, 2023

Myingyan political prisoners hit with solitary confinement for using mobile phones

Three of more than a dozen inmates targeted in the crackdown are also facing additional criminal charges surrounding their alleged phone use, sources close to them say

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Moe OoJune 5, 2023

Resistance forces use drone to bomb junta infantry in Myingyan

The attack occurred one day after a visit to the area by coup leader Min Aung Hlaing

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Myanmar army troops torch hundreds of houses in Myingyan Township

Myanmar regime forces kill five youths near Myingyan

Myanmar junta set to reopen second major plant in its bid for steel

Myingyan political prisoners hit with solitary confinement for using mobile phones

Resistance forces use drone to bomb junta infantry in Myingyan

‘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

Myanmar military drone strike kills civilian, escalates tensions in key port town

Exclusive: Myanmar junta invites Russia to extract gems, minerals in active conflict areas

Indian MPs’ calls for Myanmar border regions to join India greeted with scepticism, rejection

Myanmar troops under armed attack flee across border: Thai military

War of words: Myanmar migrants face disinformation in Thailand

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