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People have their temperatures checked amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus at the immigration post in Myawaddy near the Thai border on March 23, 2020, as thousands of people crossed from Thailand as the border crossings were due to close because of the growing pandemic. Photo: AFP
April 6, 2020
A migrant support network has voiced concern over Myanmar and other regional migrants in Southeast Asia who are negatively affected by government...
Photo by SHAB – Shan State Goverment
April 6, 2020
Seng Hpoo — The Shan State government does not have any separate funds designated to prevent and treat the coronavirus, and will rely on what remains...
April 6, 2020
Ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) have said that they are struggling to work with the Burmese government to combat the coronavirus pandemic...
April 6, 2020
Northern Alliance leaders called on the Burma Army and government to declare a ceasefire to give them time to launch programs in their communities to...
Voice of Myanmar (VOM) editor-in-chief Nay Myo Lin (C) sits in a vehicle as he is escorted from his home by the police to court in Mandalay on March 31, 2020. Photo: Zaw Zaw/AFP
April 6, 2020
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Myanmar authorities to immediately drop all charges against an editor for broadcasting an interview with...
Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
April 6, 2020
Naung Naung — State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said that keeping returnees from foreign countries at COVID-19 quarantine centres for 14 days was not...
April 6, 2020
Eighteen ambassadors to Burma from Europe and the US called for an end to fighting in Chin and Rakhine states to prepare for the Covid-19 pandemic...
April 6, 2020
Khaing Roe La — A former Arakan State minister for security and border affairs, Colonel Htein Lin, has been appointed as a peace advisor for the...
Daw Phyu Thein Chay, wife of a Tatmadaw corporal, succumbed to gunshot wounds on April 3.( Photo: CJ)
April 6, 2020
Myo Thiri Kyaw — The wife of a corporal from a Tatmadaw battalion based in Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township was fatally shot on April 3, according...
The victim U Saw Naing Win was being taken to Sittwe Hospital on Friday morning.( Photo: Aung Htein / DMG)
April 6, 2020
Aung Htein and Zaung (Ponnagyun) — A local man was reportedly injured when an artillery shell landed near Letwei Sartaik village in Ponnagyun...
April 6, 2020
Burma News International (BNI) sent an open letter to the president and state counselor to withdraw all charges against several editors accused of...
Photo by – ထုင်ႉႁူၺ်ႈလီ/ Muse Gate
April 4, 2020
NANG SENG NOM — Both official and unofficial border gates between the northern Shan State townships of Muse and Namkham and China have been closed...