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April 25, 2020
Dr Thant Myint-U — Myanmar is facing two new crises: (1) a health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, and (2) an economic crisis caused by the...
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo. Photo: Mizzima
April 25, 2020
Myanmar’s Cardinal Charles Bo is calling for a ceasefire in Myanmar as part of the call made by the United Nations chief and Pope Francis for a...
April 25, 2020
Nay Yaung Min — Myanmar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has vowed an investigation into an attack that led to the death of a local World Health...
April 25, 2020
Win Nyunt — Four people were killed and six were injured by heavy weapons fire on April 22 in Paletwa Township, Chin State, according to...
Volunteers from KsC19PN help accepting home returning workers from China on April 20, 2020. Photo: Seng Nu Pan/ KsC19PN.
April 25, 2020
With thousands returning en masse from jobs in China in recent days a Kachin civil society coalition cautioned that more needed to be done to reduce...
April 25, 2020
The government extended the lockdown in a town in Chin State, the location of Burma’s first confirmed COVID-19 case, for another seven days. Keptel,...
April 25, 2020
Min Htun — COVID-19 test samples taken from war-torn Arakan State will henceforth be sent to Yangon by air, according to the state Department of...
An injured Muslim woman being brought to hospital. (Photo: Ann Thargyi)
April 25, 2020
Myo Thiri Kyaw and Hnin Nwe — A third straight day of gunfire in Arakan State’s Minbya Township killed four people and injured six others on the...
April 24, 2020
Win Nyunt — Thirty-three out of 38 people recently arrested by the Tatmadaw in Ponnagyun Township, Arakan State, were released on April 20, according...
April 24, 2020
Win Nyunt — A vehicle carrying medical products was fired upon in Arakan State’s Minbya Township on April 21, with the second such attack in two days...
April 24, 2020
A driver was killed, and his colleague injured in an attack by the Arakan Army in Rakhine State on 21 April, state media reported quoting Office of...
Members of the Myanmar Red Cross society move a dead body from a boat to an ambulance that will transport to Sittwe Hospital, in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 21 April 2020. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
April 24, 2020
The U.S. State Department condemned Wednesday a recent attack on a UN vehicle in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, Anadolu Agency reported. "The...