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Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 22, 2025 Evening

MoeMaKa · August 22, 2025

Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 22, 2025 Evening 📌📌 1. Junta’s planned election is a political trap, says Anti-Dictatorship People’s Coordination Committee – Mandalay August 22 The Anti-Dictatorship People’s Coordination Committee – Mandalay...

Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 22, 2025 Evening

MoeMaKa · August 22, 2025

Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 22, 2025 Evening 📌📌 1. ABSDF and Mandalay Region Revolutionary Forces to cooperate in anti-dictatorship activities August 22 The All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) and the Mandalay Region Revolutionary...

Indonesia BNN, Myanmar join forces to block Golden Triangle drug flow

Antara · August 22, 2025

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) has strengthened cooperation with Myanmar authorities to prevent drug trafficking, particularly the entry of cross-border syndicates into Indonesia. “BNN has strengthened cooperation with...

Myanmar Ambassador attends GEF scholarship awarding

Global New Light Of Myanmar · August 22, 2025

attendees are presence together at GEF scholarship awarding. Including three Myanmar students, Global Elim Foundation (GEF) scholarship was awarded to 39 students from 19 countries for 2025 fall semester and Myanmar Ambassador to the Republic of...

Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 21, 2025 Evening

MoeMaKa · August 21, 2025

Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 21, 2025 Evening 📌📌 1. Summary Report on PRF International Contributions: Singapore, Myanmar, the United States, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and Japan ranked as the largest contributors August 21 According to...

Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 22, 2025

MoeMaKa · August 22, 2025

Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 22, 2025 📌📌 1. Prime Minister Man Win Khaing Than: The junta is attempting by all means to hold elections in NUG-administered areas, while brutally attacking civilians with airstrikes, heavy weapons, and small...

Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 21, 2025 Evening

MoeMaKa · August 21, 2025

Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 21, 2025 Evening 🚩🚩 1. Airstrikes on Villages Along Kawlin–Hteechaik Border Kill Three, Including a Revolutionary Fighter, and Injure Eight August 21 According to local sources, indiscriminate airstrikes by the...

Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 22, 2025 Morning

MoeMaKa · August 22, 2025

Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 22, 2025 Morning 🚩🚩 1. Over 20 junta soldiers killed and 8 supply trucks destroyed in clashes as junta column advanced from Dawei to Meta Town August 21 – Radio NUG According to the Karen National Union (KNU), a...

To Counter China, India Should Support Myanmar’s Pro-democracy Movement

The Diplomat · August 22, 2025

Myanmar’s post-coup civil war is now into its fifth year and regional geopolitics are playing a bigger role than ever in the success of the country’s pro-democracy movement. According to some estimates, the military now controls less than 30...

Myanmar: NSO Appeals for Restraint, Accuses Kachin Forces of Undermining Fraternity

Ukhrul Times · August 22, 2025

Ukhrul, August 22: The Naga Students’ Organisation (NSO) at Lahe town in Naga Self-Administered Zone has issued a formal rejoinder to the Kachin Wesean Students’ Association (KWSA), expressing both appreciation for their solidarity and deep...

Over 40% of Nay Pyi Taw hotels hit by Mandalay quake reopen

Global New Light Of Myanmar · August 21, 2025

In the Nay Pyi Taw Council Area, which has 102 hotels and guesthouses with 6,434 rooms, the Mandalay Earthquake partially damaged 99 hotels and caused three to collapse, while over 150 tourists are staying in bed spaces and more than 1,500...

Why do war-torn Myanmar's generals want elections?

Deutsche Welle · August 22, 2025

Myanmar's military rulers officially ended the country's state of emergency in early August — more than four years after it was imposed following the 2021 coup. Power has been transferred to an interim civilian government, with national elections...

42,000 Myanmar Nationals Mapped Under New FMR Policy Along Indo-Myanmar Border

The Sentinel - Assam News ·

Imphal: Under the newly enforced Free Movement Regime (FMR) policy, the Assam Rifles have successfully mapped around 42,000 Myanmar nationals who entered India through various border points since December last year. Officials confirmed that the...

Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge 1 opens as usual

Global New Light Of Myanmar · August 22, 2025

Kawthoung port. At present, Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge 1 has been open as usual and bilateral transport has been ongoing, according to sources. The bridge which is a regular border trade route has been closed in Myanmar side for temporary...

Eight years after brutal military assault, Rohingya suffering continues: Myanmar

The National Tribune · August 22, 2025

OHCHR As we near the passing of another year with no justice for the violence which started on 25 August 2017 in Myanmar, we are left to ask the question of when the enduring misery for these and ongoing crimes will end, particularly for the...

Myanmar military post-coup elections to begin on December 28 [AUDIO]

Democratic Voice of Burma · August 22, 2025

The regime’s Union Election Commission (UEC) announced on Monday that its general elections will begin on Dec. 28, with specific dates for polls in January 2026 to be announced later. Nay Phone Latt, the National Unity Government (NUG) Prime...

Magnitude 5.6 quake strikes near Myanmar-India

Newsfirst ·

(Reuters) - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck near the Myanmar-India border on Friday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), EMSC said.

8 Years On: Accountability needed for Myanmar atrocities against Rohingya

Amnesty International · August 22, 2025

August 25, 2025, marks eight years since the Myanmar military and authorities launched widespread atrocities against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Starting in August 2017, Myanmar security forces razed several hundred...

A history of high-paid Western grifters in Myanmar

Asia Times · August 22, 2025

Myanmar’s rebranded State Security and Peace Commission (SSPC) has announced elections for December 28, in a flurry of domestic dictatorial reformation. But they also want to deceive world opinion too, with the early-August announcement of a US$3...

Myanmar bodybuilders win four golds at SEA Championship

Global New Light Of Myanmar · August 21, 2025

T he Myanmar national bodybuilding and physique sports athletes won the Champion of Champions Overall Champion trophy along with four gold, two silver, and three bronze medals at the XIX Southeast Asian Bodybuilding and Physique Sports...