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False Peace, Real War in Myanmar
The Irrawaddy
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June 30, 2025
From June 25-27, the junta staged a carefully choreographed event in Naypyitaw, deceptively titled the “Peace Forum.” This event had nothing to do with peace. It was a cynical performance, a deceitful façade masking an intensified and atrocious...
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Jun 21, 2025 Evening
MoeMaKa
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June 21, 2025
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Jun 21, 2025 Evening 📌📌 1. Revolutionary Leaders Attend Graduation Ceremony of BPLA’s 9th Basic Military Training Course in Ta’ang Region June 21 — Northern Shan State The graduation ceremony for the 9th weekly...
In Myanmar's Rakhine, India has to hunt with the hounds, swim with the crocodiles
The Federal
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June 30, 2025
The fighting between the Myanmarese Army Tatmadaw and the separatist Arakan Army seems to have entered a crucial phase in the country's southeastern coastal province of Rakhine (former Arakan). After a ceasefire announced by both sides to help...
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Jun 20, 2025 Evening
MoeMaKa
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June 20, 2025
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Jun 20, 2025 Evening 📌📌 1. Commemorative Donations Made by the Office of the Union Prime Minister on the Occasion of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 80th Birthday June 20 The Office of the Union Prime Minister has announced...
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Jun 20, 2025 Morning
MoeMaKa
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June 20, 2025
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Jun 20, 2025 Morning 📌📌 1. On the Occasion of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 80th Birthday, NUG Interim President Urges Continued Struggle for “Freedom from Fear” Alongside Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the People June 19 Radio...
Myanmar Military News Updates – Jun 20, 2025 Evening
MoeMaKa
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June 20, 2025
Myanmar Military News Updates – Jun 20, 2025 Evening 🚩🚩 1. Senior Military Officer from Thagara Military Industrial Complex Arrested, Taungtha Pa-Ka-Pha Confirms June 20 A senior warrant officer from the military junta’s Thagara Military...
Myanmar junta urged to stop using child soldiers
JURIST
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June 21, 2025
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for the Myanmar military to stop the recruitment and use of child soldiers on Friday. Since the junta took over Myanmar in the 2021 coup, the recruitment and use of child soldiers has surged, especially after the...
Myanmar’s new realities demand a new Rohingya strategy
Daily Star
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June 21, 2025
The idea of opening a humanitarian channel into Myanmar's Rakhine State to deliver aid directly to the Rohingya certainly carries a moral appeal. With Bangladesh having sheltered nearly one million Rohingya refugees for over six years—most of them...
Immigration in Japan: Understanding Who is a Refugee
JAPAN Forward
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June 21, 2025
このページを 日本語 で読む Criticisms such as "Japan is cold toward refugees" or "Japan accepts very few refugees" frequently appear in the media. In the past, there may have been a basis to think so. But, I have worked in immigration and refugee support for...
China-Myanmar 75th anniversary celebrated with youth cultural show
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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June 29, 2025
A youth fine art performance marking the 75th anniversary of China-Myanmar diplomatic relations was held yesterday morning at the National Theatre in Yangon. Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs and Culture Daw Nu Mra Zan, the Chair of the...
Myanmar junta battles guerrillas for control of jade hub
Daily Star
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June 20, 2025
Sat Jun 21, 2025 01:59 AM Last update on: Sat Jun 21, 2025 03:22 AM AFP, Yangon Sat Jun 21, 2025 01:59 AM Last update on: Sat Jun 21, 2025 03:22 AM Myanmar's junta and anti-coup guerillas battled over the country's jade mining hub yesterday, a...
Myanmar Fellowship gathers for just that (not business) in Dallas
Baptist Press - Tennessee
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June 20, 2025
DALLAS – The people of Myanmar (formerly Burma) have had it rough ever since a coup in 1962. Since 2008, nine cyclones and other named storms have devastated Myanmar. In 2008 alone, 130,000 people died, Pastor James Amar of Elim International...
Ahom Valour Makes Its Way Into NCERT Textbooks In Step Towards Honouring Assam’s Legacy
News18
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July 17, 2025
Last Updated:July 17, 2025, 16:13 IST The Ahoms, who migrated in the 13th century from Mong Mao (in present-day Myanmar) to Brahmaputra Valley, laid the foundations of one of the most enduring and effective dynasties In November 2022, Assam CM...
Myanmar: Stop Recruitment, Use of Child Soldiers
Human Rights Watch
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June 20, 2025
(Bangkok) – The Myanmar military’s recruitment and use of child soldiers has surged since the 2021 coup, including a significant number recruited after the junta enacted a conscription law in February 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. On June...
Myanmar citizens in US to protest before Chinese consulate for...
Eleven Myanmar
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Myanmar citizens living in the United States of America will stage a protest in front of the Chinese consulate and the Myanmar embassy on April 19 demanding to terminate the Myistone dam project. The invitation letter for joining the protest says:...
Youth cultural performances celebrate 75 years of China-Myanmar diplomatic relations
Xinhua News Agency
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YANGON, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Youth cultural performances by students from Chinese schools in Myanmar and the State High School of Arts in Yangon were staged here on Sunday to celebrate the 75th anniversary of China-Myanmar diplomatic relations. The...
Muslims Ethnically Cleansed 1 Million Christians in Kazakhstan
FrontPage Magazine
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June 29, 2025
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Myanmar Junta Changes Election Law Ahead of Polls
The Irrawaddy
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June 20, 2025
Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing has amended the Union Election Commission Law, which allows government staff to chair all Myanmar’s election bodies ahead of voting due in December or January. Many government departments are led by ex-military officers...
Is Myanmar’s human rights crisis reaching breaking point?
ImpACT International
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Myanmar’s human rights crisis, now in its fifth year since the 2021 military coup, has reached catastrophic proportions. The country is gripped by war, economic collapse, and a humanitarian disaster that has left millions displaced, impoverished,...
Flag handover marks Myanmar as host of Mekong Tourism Forum in 2026
Xinhua News Agency
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VIENTIANE, June 29 (Xinhua) -- The 2025 Mekong Tourism Forum concluded successfully, with Laos officially handing over a symbolic flag to Myanmar, the designated host for the 2026 forum. The handover ceremony was led by Phonemaly Inthaphome,...