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At least 59 people were killed and 129 injured in Sunday’s crackdown by security forces in Yangon’s suburban and industrial townships, according to sources at three area hospitals.
The junta’s...
The coup regime’s forces killed seven and injured 20 on Sunday during an attack on protesters in Yangon’s Thingangyun township, a doctor from the Thingangyun Sanpya Hospital told Myanmar Now. ...
Content warning: This report contains graphic images of wounded and dead protesters
At least 16 people were shot in Yangon on Sunday as the military ordered deadly attacks on peaceful protesters...
Two prominent Rakhine nationalists sentenced to 20 years in prison for sedition have been released as part of a general amnesty announced by Myanmar’s ruling junta on Friday.
Rakhine political...
Three political candidates were talking to members of their party’s campaign team in a house in Phaungka, a village in southern Rakhine state’s Taungup township, when a group of armed men suddenly...
The Arakan National Party (ANP) has said one of its MPs should be Rakhine’s next chief minister because the party won the most seats in the State Hluttaw in last year’s election.
The call came...
The National League for Democracy’s (NLD) vice chair has dealt a blow to hopes the party will follow through on its promise of a “national unity government” by all but ruling out the possibility of...
The Rakhine state parliament approved a motion on Thursday calling on the Union government to remove the Arakan Army (AA) from a list of terrorist organisations.
The proposal, which was put...
The National League for Democracy (NLD) says it has received a dozen responses to a letter it sent to ethnic parties last month inviting them to help establish a democratic federal union.
Magwe...
Several local governments will be able to operate without scrutiny from opposition parties after the National League for Democracy (NLD) won every elected seat in five of Myanmar’s seven regional...
