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Sources told DVB that journalists Sithu Aung Myint and Htet Htet Khine, who worked for BBC Media Action, as well as pro-democracy singer Thanthar Win, were released from prison on Sunday.
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Journalist Sithu Aung Myint, who contributed to Frontier Myanmar and Voice of America, before he was arrested in August 2021, at an unknown location on an unspecified date. (Credit: RFA)
December 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Deaths and injuries from landmines and unexploded ordnance hit a four-year high in 2024, driven by conflicts in Syria and Myanmar as well as European countries moving to withdraw from the treaty banning their use.
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Old landmines that Thailand says were detonated and recovered near the disputed border between Thailand and Cambodia are displayed during a media visit organized by the Royal Thai Army, following a ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand, in Surin Province of Thailand, on Aug. 20. (Credit: Reuters)
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Five members of a family, including a two-year-old, were killed and five others were injured by an airstrike on Natmawoo village in Wetlet Township, Sagaing Region, carried out by the Burma Air Force on Tuesday.
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Residents of Wetlet Township, Sagaing Region, inspect the destruction caused to a home after an airstrike that killed five civilians on Dec. 2. (Credit: CJ)
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Members of the Muslim community in Mandalay Region told said the regime continues to deny them permits to reconstruct mosques damaged or destroyed over eight months after the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar on March 28.
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The Sekkyar (North) Mosque in Chanayethazan Township, Mandalay Region, was damaged by the earthquake on March 28. (Credit: Residents)
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Residents of Maubin Township in Ayeyarwady Region told DVB that four convicted of violating Section 505-A of the Penal Code, and three others detained on the same charge, were the only political prisoners released from Maubin Prison on Friday.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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A total of 1,954 undocumented foreign nationals have been detained at cyber scam centers in Myawaddy Township’s Shwe Kokko and KK Park, in Karen State, in ongoing operations since Nov. 18.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Karen
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Shwe Kokko’s casino, entertainment and tourism complex in Myawaddy Township, Karen State, after Thailand cut electricity, internet and fuel supplies to five border areas in Burma in an effort to curb scam centers on Feb. 19. (Credit: Reuters)
December 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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The U.N. human rights office voiced concern on Friday that the regime was pressuring people into voting in the elections this month and that electronic voting machines and AI surveillance could help authorities to identify and arrest opponents.
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The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw building, which is the seat of the Parliament in Naypyidaw, on Aug. 12, 2011. (Credit: Reuters)
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Tom Andrews, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma, issued a statement on Thursday condemning the U.S. decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nearly 4,000 Burma nationals residing in the U.S.
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UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burma Tom Andrews at a press conference in Bangkok about possible arms deals, via Thai banks, to the regime in Naypyidaw on July 11. (Credit: Reuters)
December 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Nearly 100 military vehicles entered Mogok Township, Mandalay Region on Friday, as part of a China-brokered ceasefire deal between the Ta’ang National Liberation Army and the regime in Naypyidaw reached one month earlier.
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Residents of Mogok Township, Mandalay Region, fled their homes in the lead up to hand over of the town to Naypyidaw control in late November. (Credit: CJ)
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Nearly 170 regime troops have entered Mogok Township escorted by the Ta’ang National Liberation Army since Nov. 20, ahead of the scheduled handover to the military by Nov. 29.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Mandalay #Mogok
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Residents of Mogok Township, Mandalay Region, fled their homes in the lead up to hand over of the town to Naypyidaw control in late November. (Credit: CJ)
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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A total of 3,085 political prisoners have been released in a regime amnesty on Thursday, according to the National Defence and Security Council (NDSC) on Nov. 26.
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Prisoners released in a regime amnesty are welcomed by family members and colleagues outside the main gate of Yangon’s Insein Prison on Nov. 27. (Credit: AP Photo/Thein Zaw)
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations 11-member regional bloc will find it difficult to re-engage with Burma even after its upcoming election, the Thai foreign minister said on Tuesday.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #AungSanSuuKyi
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Thailand’s Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow spoke at a press conference on the sidelines of the 47th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Oct. 26. (Credit: Reuters)
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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The Karen National Union announced on Tuesday that embassies must retrieve 741 foreign nationals, detained from a raid on a cyber scam center allegedly operated by the pro-regime Democratic Karen Benevolent Army in Karen State, on Nov. 21.
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A cyber scam center allegedly run by the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army in Minletpan village of Myawaddy Township, Karen State, was raided by the Karen National Liberation Army on Nov. 21. (Credit: KNU)
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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The pro-regime Democratic Karen Benevolent Army announced that any individual caught transporting foreign nationals, specifically Chinese, within areas under its control in Karen State will be arrested and prosecuted.
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Democratic Karen Benevolent Army members held by the Karen National Liberation Army after a raid on a scam center in Minletpan village of Myawaddy Township, Karen State, on Nov. 21. (Credit: The Reporters)
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated that it is ending Temporary Protected Status for citizens of Burma, arguing they can safely return home with the regime’s 2025-26 elections as evidence of an improving situation.
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A U.S. Department of Homeland Security sign in New York City, U.S., on July 21. (Credit: Reuters)
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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The National Unity Government (NUG) stated on Monday that it has temporarily suspended its Prime Minister Office’s Permanent Secretary Kyi Pyar and is investigating her and her husband for alleged corruption and financial fraud.
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The National Unity Government launched an investigation into alleged corruption and financial fraud by Kyi Pyar, the Prime Minister Office’s Permanent Secretary, on Nov. 24. (Credit: NUG)
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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The U.N.'s WGAD has delivered a landmark ruling, declaring the nearly three-year detention of prominent Rohingya community spokesperson Dil Mohammed in Bangladesh to be arbitrary and unlawful under international law.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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A day after regime leader Min Aung Hlaing visited the Karen State capital of Hpa-An last week, two sources said army officers met members of the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) with a directive: they had to suppress burgeoning cyber scam centres at its headquarters of Shwe Kokko.
A casino, entertainment and tourism complex in Burma’s Karen State called Shwe Kokko, seen from Mae Sot District, Tak Province of Thailand, after electricity, internet and fuel supplies were cut by the government in Bangkok to Shwe Kokko, and four other towns along the border, on Feb. 19. (Credit: Reuters)
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Regime courts delivered heavy sentences to three people in Hlaingthaya Township of Yangon Region and one in Chaungzon Township of Mon State under the Election Protection Law on Wednesday.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Yangon
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November 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Organizers of protests in front of The White House and the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. told DVB that over 400 members of the diaspora and others denounced the regime’s “sham” 2025-26 elections in Burma, on Saturday.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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The Sagaing Federal Unit Hluttaw elected Soe Oo, the NLD member of parliament for Sagaing Township No. 1 in the Sagaing Region Hluttaw from 2020-21, as Prime Minister of the Sagaing Federal Unit Interim Government on Monday.
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Members of the National League for Democracy party in Sagaing Region, who were elected in 2020 but ousted in the 2021 military coup and joined the Sagaing Federal Unit Hluttaw post-coup, at a meeting at an undisclosed location in February 2021. (Credit: SFUH)
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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The Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) and the Karen National Union (KNU) told DVB that they have submitted letters temporarily suspending their memberships to the National Unity Consultative Council earlier this week.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Seven civilians were killed and at least 20 others were injured by airstrikes carried out by the Burma Air Force in Kangyi village of Myaing Township in Magway Region on Thursday, according to the residents.
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Residents of Myaing Township, Magway Region, inspect damage caused by airstrikes to one of the 10 homes hit on Nov. 20. (Credit: Anyarmyay aid group)
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Tun Min Lat climbs a bamboo ladder in the longan orchards of eastern Thailand, moving from tree to tree as he plucks the juicy tropical fruit in the sweltering heat of a November morning.
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A refugee from Myanmar, who was granted a work permit by the Thai government, works at a longan farm in Chanthaburi province, Thailand, on Nov. 6. (Credit: Reuters)
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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The Philippines will maintain the current approach that Malaysia has taken to the Burma crisis, since the 2021 military coup, when it assumes the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Jan. 1, 2026.
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Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Theresa Lazaro speaks at the UN General Assembly in New York on Oct. 14. (Credit: Ma Theresa Lazaro)
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM