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The Myanmar civil war (Burmese: မြန်မာ့ပြည်တွင်းစစ်), [o] also known as the Burmese civil war or Burmese Spring Revolution, is an ongoing civil war since 2021. It began following Myanmar's long-running insurgencies , which escalated significantly in response to the 2021 coup d'état and the subsequent ...
In 1836, the country's first newspaper, The Maulmain Chronicle, was published [7] followed by The Rangoon Chronicle in 1853, [8] later renamed to The Rangoon Times. King Mindon was an advocate of press freedom and encouraged the creation of Myanmar's first Burmese-language newspaper, Yadanapon Naypyidaw Thadinsa (ရတနာပုံနေပြည်တော်သတင်းစာ) to ...
During the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests, the channel criticised Western media outlets for "fabricating stories" about the incident, describing them as "not happy with peace, stability and development of the [Burmese] nation." A news programme broadcast slides reading "VOA and BBC, sky full of liars. Beware of destructionists, BBC and VOA."
After the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, people from Chin State were particularly active in anti-coup protests.Days after the beginning of the 2021 Kalay clashes on 28 March 2021, resistance groups in Chin State formed the Chinland Defense Forces on 4 April 2021 to defend civilians from the Tatmadaw's violent crackdowns against protestors. [6]
Peng Daxun [n 1] (Chinese: 彭大顺; pinyin: Péng Dàshùn, Burmese: ဖုန်တာရွှင်), also known as Peng Deren (Chinese: 彭德仁; pinyin: Péng Dérén, born 1957 or 1965), is a Burmese Kokang military leader serving as commander of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) since 2009.
Myanmar Now was established by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2015 to support in-depth independent journalism, in the lead-up to the 2015 Myanmar general election. [1] The news service officially launched in August of that year. [5]
While the route wasn't clear for supply at the time, the Burmese Red Cross announced its plan to send supplies into the two townships to aid the refugees. [24] The junta army blocked traffic into and out of Loikaw on the main roads at 11am on 29 May, along with the road from Loikaw into neighboring Shan State . [ 25 ]
On 9 December 2024, Arakan Army captured all of the Burmese military outposts and seized control of all of the Myanmar's border with Bangladesh. [13] With this victory, the AA now controls all three Burmese townships bordering Bangladesh: Maungdaw, Buthidaung, and Paletwa. In the aftermath of the Maungdaw battle, the AA arrested Brigadier ...