Bangkok/Yangon – For Aung Thet, a thriving entrepreneur in Yangon, working a enterprise under Myanmar’s army routine feels like “riding a rollercoaster”. The Southeast Asian country’s economic system ...
02.02.2023 Aljazeera.com and 9 sitesTwo civilians were killed and three injured last week by landmines in Rakhine State, where remnant explosives from previous fighting between the Arakan Army (AA) and military council troops have becom...
01.31.2023 Myanmar-now.orgA new law, issued just days before the end of a two-year nationwide state of emergency imposed after Myanmar’s military coup, has placed a high bar on the registration of political parties ahead of a ...
01.30.2023 Rfa.orgAnalysis Will Myanmar’s Brutal Military Remain United? Myanmar regime troops during the Armed Forces Day parade in Naypyitaw in March 2021 Ever since the military first seized power in a coup in March...
01.30.2023 Irrawaddy.com and 1 sitesBy David Aung 2 February 2023 Built by former military dictator General Than Shwe for then ruling military elites and their families, Myanmar’s administrative capital Naypyitaw is now a hideout for the junta leaders who succeeded him. Covering some 70, 571 square kilometers, the purpose-built capital of Southeast Asia’s second-largest country has become the safehouse for generals facing a popular revolt after their coup in 2021. Naypyitaw is bordered to the north by central Myanmar, the resistan...
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