The incident comes ahead of the second phase of the regime’s carefully stage-managed election, set to take place next Sunday Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

Residents said a village in Wetlet Township was bombed despite the absence of fighting, as air attacks intensify Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

Bombs hit a school sheltering displaced families, a Buddhist monastery, and residential areas in Khin-U and Katha townships Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

Polls were held only in a few military-controlled towns as fighting and resistance control forced widespread cancellations Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/junt...

The victim’s family expresses dissatisfaction with a decision to drop charges against a third defendant Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/two-...

Myanmar is the world’s most dangerous country for landmine casualties, according to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which monitors use of the widely prohibited weapons Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/land...

Attacks across Sagaing, Mandalay, Chin State and northern Shan hit villages, a hospital and a monastery, killing civilians including women, children and a monk Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

Attacks across Sagaing, Mandalay, Chin State and northern Shan hit villages, a hospital and a monastery, killing civilians including women, children and a monk Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/few-...

With aid to refugee camps on Myanmar’s borders cut off, there are few options left for the inhabitants of Nu Po camp in Thailand’s Tak Province myanmar-now.org/en/news/our-...

The Rakhine nationalist leader discusses his decision to enter the controversial election and its outcome in his home state  myanmar-now.org/en/news/adva...

The armed resistance seized two military hilltop outposts before advancing into the urban wards of Katha, Sagaing Region, the day after the military regime held elections in the town Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/resi...

Climate change, volatile prices, and nearly five years of conflict are pushing the country’s farmers closer to catastrophe Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/unde...

The People’s Pioneer Party led by former junta minister Thet Thet Khine has thus far failed to win any parliamentary seats in the ongoing, multiphase election Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/part...

Fighters commanded by the publicly mandated, anti-junta shadow government are executing operations aimed at compromising the junta’s armaments production, intensifying pressure while the regime attempts to hold secure elections Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/nug-...

A senior Chinese diplomat has publicly endorsed Myanmar’s military-run election and confirmed it was carried out under an agreement between Chinese President Xi Jinping and junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, in the clearest sign yet of Beijing’s backing for the polls. myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

To no one’s surprise, the USDP has emerged as the clear frontrunner in polls conducted in areas under regime control Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/army...

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), which returned control of the city of Lashio to the military this year, did not allow ballots to be cast in the nearby village tracts it continues to hold Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/koka...

The attacks, by both regime and resistance forces, highlight the ongoing violence in the country amid military-organised polls Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/airs...

Security has also been tightened in Mandalay following reports of two rockets landing near a polling station in the city Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

The election, the first in five years, has been widely dismissed as a bid to entrench authoritarian rule Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/tigh...

While the resistance campaigns to discourage participation, polling station locations are still unknown to locals in the capital, Monywa, and other towns due to the secrecy surrounding the military regime’s plans for the vote Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/secu...

As the military strong-arms the country’s citizens to go to the polls, few can muster any real interest in the outcome Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/acro...

The Myanmar military has stepped up offensive operations in a final bid to exert control in the five Chin townships where elections have been scheduled in the coming weeks Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/conf...

With Myanmar’s health system in ruins and more people than ever traumatised by war, a grassroots network of clinicians is circumventing the stigma around mental health needs to build a new culture of care Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/seek...

The attack comes a day after another that left seven people, including children and elderly women, dead in Sagaing’s Wetlet Township Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

Civil society groups have long opposed the hydropower project due to its potential to cause flooding and environmental damage and disrupt the livelihoods of people living near the project site Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

The outcome of the vote is a foregone conclusion: a continuation of military rule in a different guise Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/what...

The Trump administration’s decision to abruptly end US support for refugees is dramatically reshaping the humanitarian landscape along the Indo-Myanmar border Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/in-i...

It was unclear who was behind the planned shipment of the drones, which the four suspects said they had been “ordered” to bring to Myanmar Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

Even in the three remaining townships where the military exercises authority, elections will not be feasible in some jurisdictions and the competing parties have scant popular support Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

Amid condemnation inside and outside Myanmar and its own purported doubts about the military’s fitness for rule, Beijing has given crucial support to the junta generals in holding the election Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/chin...

A career in the criminal industry of online fraud—known locally as “Kyar Phyant”—has become an alluring option for many of Myanmar’s young people, who say they were not coerced into it but voluntarily sought it out for the potential income Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/will...

Despite airstrikes and a massive build-up of ground troops, the regime continues to struggle to retake positions near its Nat Yay Kan air defence base Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/inte...

The company informed the country’s military regime that it could no longer operate under the current economic and political conditions that have developed there Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/swis...

The latest killings in Sagaing Region’s Khin-U Township come as the regime intensifies its efforts to retake towns across the Ayeyarwady River in northern Mandalay Region Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/civi...

Singu, a town that has been under the control of resistance forces for more than a year, is the latest to be recaptured by the regime in recent months Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

Major tech companies have stopped hosting propaganda channels linked to the Myanmar military regime following pressure from activists Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/tech...

The two sides clashed earlier this week over a dispute with a local man with ties to a KNLA-led guerrilla force, sources said Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/50-p...

After agreeing to a ceasefire with the military junta, the ethnic armed group Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) is overseeing arrangements for the upcoming military-run polling outside northern Shan State’s junta-controlled capital Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/vill...

Resistance forces in Palaw Township vow to bring the killers to justice, while also facing questions about deaths of junta-affiliated officials Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/nug-...

New coalition says it aims to improve coordination and command among post-coup armed groups while pursuing federal democracy Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/nine...

Residents of at least seven villages have reportedly been forced to join the Shanni Nationalities Army in recent months, sources say Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

One of many infrastructure and development projects in Myanmar supported by Chinese investment, the mining site in that resumed operations this year in Salingyi Township is now shutting down again until February Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/wanb...

Resistance forces say Myanmar’s military is pushing from two directions to retake the Chin State town included in the regime’s election plans Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/heav...

As the junta forces step up drone strikes, shelling, and ground assaults on the resistance-held town on the Ayeyarwady River north of Mandalay, resistance forces are steadily falling back Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

The publicly mandated National Unity Government (NUG) has declared for the second time in a week that it will attack the junta forces entering the towns of Mogok and Mongmit following a Chinese-mediated ceasefire Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/resi...

Residents, volunteers and reporters describe scenes of chaos and loss after Myanmar military jets bombed a hospital in Rakhine State, killing at least 34 people and injuring more than 70 Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/utte...

Ending practices of free movement in one of the world’s most underdeveloped border regions has impacted livelihoods and threatened age-old cultural connections among communities in northeast India and neighbouring parts of Myanmar Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/new-...

As the junta prepares to conjure an election, Myanmar remains a country shattered by war, mass displacement, with a military that violates its own Constitution Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/the-...

The hospital hit by the bombing, which occurred on International Human Rights Day, was a major facility serving civilians from multiple townships held by the Arakan Army (AA), the ethnic armed group that controls most of Rakhine State’s territory Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/doze...