Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center and detains over 2,000 people

Myanmar's military says it has shut down a major online scam operation near the Thailand border. State media reported Monday ...
The Diplomat

Myanmar’s Minerals Deal

In the scramble for access to the nation’s rare earth deposits, a non-state armed group holds the cards. Cadets of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) preparing for military drills at the group’s ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Strike on Myanmar village sees 24 dead

BANGKOK -- Myanmar's military carried out a paraglider strike on a village that killed at least 24 people, including children, and wounded more than 50 others, according to a member of a resistance ...
CNN

At least 20 killed in Myanmar junta attack as paramotors widen air war

A 30-year-old protester was taking part in a gathering against Myanmar’s ruling junta on a festival day in the central region of Sagaing on Monday when he heard the distinctive noise of fan blades ...
The Irrawaddy

Myanmar Scam Cities Booming Despite Crackdown—Using Musk’s Starlink

Despite pressure from China, Thailand and the US, Myanmar’s cyber-scam industry is rebuilding rapidly, thanks in part to Starlink’s satellite dishes.
The Independent

Myanmar’s junta must be held accountable for its horrific massacres – all 413 of them

This week, Myanmar’s democratically elected National Unity Government (NUG) and the Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP) will present new evidence of genocide and massacres to the Chief Prosecutor’s ...
Nikkei Asia

China's tilt boosts regime in Myanmar's civil war

BANGKOK -- The armed wing of the Karen National Union, an ethnic group locked in a decades-long separatist struggle in Myanmar's southeast Kayin State, has spent the current monsoon season scouring ...
The Straits Times

Myanmar’s war-torn Rakhine facing a hunger catastrophe, aid groups say

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh - After Ms Ajib Bahar's six-month-old son fell sick in 2024 in Myanmar's war-torn Rakhine state, the 38-year-old Rohingya mother said she had no medicine nor food to give him.
CNN

Scam kingpins who ran billion-dollar criminal empire sentenced to death in China

A court in China has sentenced 11 people to death for their roles in a billion-dollar family-run criminal empire built on online scam and gambling operations in a remote border region of Myanmar, and ...
London Evening Standard

At least 40 killed and 80 injured as paraglider drops bombs on Buddhist festival in Myanmar

At least 40 people were killed and 80 others wounded while protesting against Myanmar’s military government after a motorised paraglider dropped two bombs on the crowd. Hundreds had gathered in Chaung ...
Yahoo

At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Myanmar Buddhist festival

Two dozen people in the Sagaing region were killed in the airstrike [PDF] At least 24 people were killed and 47 wounded while protesting against Myanmar's military government after an army motorised ...