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With Myanmar’s currency plunging and inflation soaring, the owner of three mobile phone shops in Mandalay announced he was giving his employees a raise. Word of his generosity quickly spread on Facebook, and his workers cheered the news.

Chin Brotherhood claims control of entire strategic town but locals worry about potential conflict with rival resistance group.

The Thai Bankers’ Association (TBA) said on Friday that it stood firmly against facilitating transactions for the procurement of weapons for Myanmar’s military junta.

An ethnic Chin group on India’s border has cut off Rakhine’s last major supply route and issued an ultimatum to Myanmar’s Arakan Army.

Historic alliances have prevented tensions between armed groups from boiling over in Myanmar’s northern Shan State, but overlapping territorial claims and ethnic sensitivities keep them at a constant simmer.

Ethnic army and PDF allies capture two dozen junta bases in three days of fighting in townships along the road linking Shan State’s northern capital to Mandalay Region.

UN speaks out after Myanmar Border Guard troops reportedly steel WFP rice and torch warehouse while retreating from Arakan Army attack in Rakhine.

The Ta'ang National Liberation Army has launched coordinated attacks against the regime in northern Shan State and Mandalay Region.

Authorities, who accused the businessmen and wholesalers of selling at prices above the maximum set by the regime, are reportedly holding the detainees in Yangon and Naypyitaw

The airport’s capture has yet to be confirmed by the AA. It would be the first airport seized by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar.

The junta has admitted that its troops shot dead Sayadaw Bhaddanta Munindabhivamsa, despite earlier regime media reports blaming resistance groups.

Bangladeshi shipping is reportedly being fired on while near Myanmar on the River Naf.

In a viral video, a monk who survived the incident explains that junta troops shot dead Sayadaw Bhaddanta Munindabhivamsa. The junta blamed the killing on a PDF group.

Deadly skirmish in Matupi highlights divisions in ethnic Chin fight against junta.

The junta’s annual one-day war on flowers saw about three dozen people arrested on Wednesday, the 79th birthday of detained civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, for wearing or holding flowers.

The media’s increasing obsession with ‘national disintegration’ is playing into the Myanmar junta’s hands and threatening progress toward peaceful federalism.

Civilian residents said the army threatened to shoot people who had left their villages or homes near Sittwe by the deadline, but did not provide other shelter for them

The Arakan Army has captured 10 more junta camps in Rakhine State’s Maungdaw in less than two weeks, killing about 200 junta troops including a strategic commander during battles to capture the township, the ethnic army said.

The attacks, which took place early last week, are so far the worst confirmed mass killing by regime forces in Rakhine State since late last year

Myanmar people need urgent international help to restore free flow of communication after junta bans VPNs, says digital rights advocate.

India’s Joint Director-General of Military Intelligence, Major General Charanjeet Singh Dewgun, led a delegation from the subcontinent to Myanmar on Wednesday to pay a courtesy call on General Maung Aye.

The gift comes as the regime’s navy steps up bombardments of coastal villages and towns in Rakhine State.

More than half of Myanmar’s most economically productive citizens, high-skilled graduates between 20 and 40 years of age, want to flee the country, the latest World Bank update on the outlook for the once-promising economy says.

Min Aung Hlaing concedes regime is struggling to contain popular uprising.

Recent tensions among Ta’ang, Kokang, and Kachin fighters—who previously fought against the Myanmar military as allies—stem from disagreements over mining rights and other matters of territorial control and jurisdiction

Residents of areas north of the Rakhine capital are being forcibly moved out of their villages and into the city as the regime tries to stave off an AA attack, residents say.

Min Aung Hlaing and the head of the country’s highest Buddhist authority sprinkled scented water on the luxury vehicles, before the top monks took them for a spin.

Myanmar junta airstrike on Sagaing monastery kills 13 people including monks, one week after bombing in same region killed 27.

The Government of the Russian Federation has approved a draft agreement on the basic principles of cooperation in the construction…

Myanmar’s junta has frozen the bank accounts of 39 people it accuses of providing unlicensed “hundi” cash transfer services and is warning that it will intensify its crackdown on the service that is widely used by migrant workers to send money home.