Myanmar’s military government claims a record seizure of illicit drugs at production sites

Myanmar's military government has announced its largest-ever seizure of illicit drugs and production equipment.

At This Office Park, Scamming the World Was the Business

Times journalists got a rare look inside one of the compounds where the online fraud industry makes its billions.
Newsweek

Myanmar Holds First Election in 5 Years Amid Civil War, Boycott Calls

Voters in Myanmar went to the polls Sunday for the first phase of the country's first general election in five years, conducted under military government supervision while civil war engulfs much of ...
CNN

Myanmar’s military junta begins elections as civil war sparked by coup still rages

Voters queued at polling stations in Myanmar on Sunday to vote in a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected ...
PBS

Myanmar has declared a ‘zero tolerance’ policy for cyberscams, but the fraud goes on

It looked like a turning point in the global fight against scams. Myanmar’s military leadership, under growing international pressure, vowed to wipe out the industrial-scale cyberscam centers that ...
Los Angeles Times

Myanmar military acknowledges airstrike on hospital it says opposition used as base

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Myanmar’s military acknowledged an airstrike on a hospital, claiming opposition groups used it as a base; local ...
GCN

Myanmar’s proposed December general election raises alarms over atrocious political repression

After Myanmar’s military declared the country’s first post-coup general elections to the public in May 2023, the Myanmar military has since detailed the elections and the country’s future post-coup ...
The New York Times

Dozens Killed as a Hospital Is Bombed in Brutal Civil War

Jets from the Myanmar military dropped two bombs on the facility in Mrauk-U, in what rebels and witnesses called a deliberate attack on civilians. By Verena Hölzl Khaing Lin had just left the hospital ...
Wyoming News

Myanmar junta air strike on hospital kills 31, aid workers say

A Myanmar military air strike killed more than 30 people at a hospital, aid workers said Thursday, as the junta wages a withering offensive ahead of elections. The junta has increased air strikes year ...
World Politics Review

In Myanmar, the World’s Indifference to Authoritarianism Is on Full Display

In this photo released by Thailand's Foreign Affairs Ministry, Myanmar's military leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, attends the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic ...
Bloomberg L.P.

World Bank Sees Myanmar’s Economy Shrinking on Conflict, Quake

Myanmar’s economy will contract this year amid civil war and ongoing drag from a March earthquake, according to the World Bank, which sees growth also constrained by weak domestic demand, labor ...