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Myanmar people wait near oxygen tanks lined up to refill outside an oxygen factory in Yangon, Myanmar, 11 July 2021.  Photo: EPA
July 15, 2021
Residents across Myanmar's biggest city are defying a military curfew in a desperate search for oxygen to keep their loved ones breathing as a new...
July 15, 2021
Fifty-five of 98 hotels and guesthouses in Arakan State are now open in line with Covid-19 preventive regulations, according to the state’s...
July 15, 2021
Women and children were the hardest hit by the often intense fighting between the Arakan Army and the Tatmadaw (Myanmar military) from late 2018...
July 15, 2021
Seven people including U Aung Naing Win who is the chairman of Moe Charity Education Training School have been arrested in Taungup in Rakhine State...
July 15, 2021
Reports out of Kani suggest that at least 16 residents may have been killed by Junta forces. The villagers had fled into the forest near Yin village...
Volunteers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) carry the body of a victim of the Covid-19 coronavirus to a cemetery in Hlegu Township in Yangon on July 10, 2021. Photo: AFP
July 15, 2021
The number of COVID-19 cases in Myanmar increased to 201,274 on Tuesday after 4,047 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours, according to a...
July 15, 2021
The Karenni Army (KA), the armed wing of the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), came under fire this Monday during its third clash with the...
July 15, 2021
Commodity prices in Arakan State have risen by 30-70% amid the ongoing third wave of Covid-19, according to businesspeople and merchants. “During the...
July 15, 2021
The Sittwe Township Court on July 12 fined three Arakanese youths who were charged under Section 19 of the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession...
July 15, 2021
The military refused to return the bodies of four Kuki youths after soldiers killed them in Tamu Township, last Saturday, July 10. Soldiers told...
July 14, 2021
The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) COVID-19 Control and Response Committee stopped training sessions and closed schools, churches and any...
July 14, 2021
The military shelled villagers in Kachin State with artillery in retaliation for a Kachin Independence Army (KIA) attack on a Peoples Militia Force (...