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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While the groups have entered into discussions to resolve the issue, families of the deceased soldiers call for more transparency and punishment for those responsible myanmar-now.org/en/news/sspp...
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SSPP troops shoot dead two TNLA soldiers in Kyaukme dispute
While the groups have entered into discussions to resolve the issue, families of the deceased soldiers call for more transparency and punishment for those responsible
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While Monde Selection has cut all ties and revoked awards given to Myanmar military-owned alcohol companies, it is now facing an investigation over possible EU sanction breaches due to its previous relationship myanmar-now.org/en/news/belg...
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Belgian company faces legal action over Myanmar beer awards
While Monde Selection has cut all ties and revoked awards given to Myanmar military-owned alcohol companies, it is now facing an investigation over possible EU sanction breaches due to its previous…
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Photo Essay: Between battles in central Myanmar As junta forces push towards oil-producing areas of Magway Region’s Myaing Township, photographs from near the frontline document the resistance fighters trying to hold them back myanmar-now.org/en/news/phot...
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Photo Essay: Between battles in central Myanmar
As junta forces push towards oil-producing areas of Magway Region’s Myaing Township, photographs from near the frontline document the resistance fighters trying to hold them back
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The airstrike targeted a monastery in rural Chin State, destroying several buildings and leaving many children among the dead and injured  myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar junta airstrike in Paletwa kills five and injures 17, including children
The airstrike targeted a monastery in rural Chin State, destroying several buildings and leaving many children among the dead and injured
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Long before Russia became the regime’s most important military partner, Aleksandr Fomin was already cultivating ties with its officer corps, a relationship now extending beyond military support into energy, finance, infrastructure and space cooperation myanmar-now.org/en/news/the-...
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The Russian general behind Moscow’s decades-long military courtship of Myanmar
Long before Russia became the regime’s most important military partner, Aleksandr Fomin was already cultivating ties with its officer corps, a relationship now extending beyond military support into…
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Last week’s mass killing of meditators at a monastery in Sagaing’s Myaung Township is just the junta’s latest attack on a religion it professes to defend myanmar-now.org/en/news/how-...
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How Myanmar’s regime turned a Buddhist retreat into a scene of death and destruction
Last week’s mass killing of meditators at a monastery in Sagaing’s Myaung Township is just the junta’s latest attack on a religion it professes to defend
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Several monks are among the dead following the early Friday morning attack on a monastery hosting a meditation retreat myanmar-now.org/en/news/as-m...
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As many as 20 believed killed in Myanmar junta airstrike on Buddhist monastery
Several monks are among the dead following the early Friday morning attack on a monastery hosting a meditation retreat
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In the dry hills of central Myanmar, resistance fighters are defending oilfields that help fund their war against the military regime myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The regime has attacked Mone Hla, in Sagaing’s Khin-U Township, repeatedly since seizing power in a 2021 coup myanmar-now.org/en/news/junt...
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Junta airstrike kills woman, injures two in birthplace of Myanmar’s top Catholic cleric
The regime has attacked Mone Hla, in Sagaing’s Khin-U Township, repeatedly since seizing power in a 2021 coup
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
With most of the state now under its control, the group must now prove that it can meet people’s needs as well as it can fight myanmar-now.org/en/news/rakh...
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Rakhine State floods put AA administration to its biggest test yet
With most of the state now under its control, the group must now prove that it can meet people’s needs as well as it can fight
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The regional bloc remains deeply divided over whether to allow Myanmar’s pariah regime to participate fully in its meetings myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar’s future, Mideast fighting hang over ASEAN talks
The regional bloc remains deeply divided over whether to allow Myanmar’s pariah regime to participate fully in its meetings
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The National Unity Government, which is allied with four of the groups that met the envoy on Monday, held separate talks online two days later myanmar-now.org/en/news/ethn...
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Ethnic armed groups say ASEAN envoy meeting was not dialogue with Myanmar junta
The National Unity Government, which is allied with four of the groups that met the envoy on Monday, held separate talks online two days later
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Junta airstrikes were reported in some flood-affected areas of the state even as emergency relief efforts were underway, sources said myanmar-now.org/en/news/floo...
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Flooding compounds humanitarian crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine State as aid needs grow
Junta airstrikes were reported in some flood-affected areas of the state even as emergency relief efforts were underway, sources said
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Bangkok has been leading an effort to begin normalising the regime’s relations, both bilaterally and through ASEAN myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar junta leader to visit Thailand next month
Myanmar’s junta leader Min Aung Hlaing will make an official visit to Thailand next month as Bangkok seeks to bring the pariah state back into the diplomatic fold, the Thai foreign minister told AFP…
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Thousands of prisoners captured during Operation 1027 remain in the group’s custody, according to sources myanmar-now.org/en/news/mnda...
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MNDAA hands 41 POWs to Myanmar junta in Lashio amid ongoing talks
Thousands of prisoners captured during Operation 1027 remain in the group’s custody, according to sources
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Despite losing control of northern Mandalay Region last year, anti-regime forces remain active there and in areas to the south myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar resistance resumes attacks north of Mandalay as junta expands offensives to the south
Despite losing control of northern Mandalay Region last year, anti-regime forces remain active there and in areas to the south
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Some of the passengers aboard two vessels that have gone missing since departing Rakhine State in late June were reportedly from Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh  myanmar-now.org/en/news/over...
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Over 500 feared dead in two suspected shipwrecks off Myanmar: UN
Some of the passengers aboard two vessels that have gone missing since departing Rakhine State in late June were reportedly from Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Basic rights remain non-existent in the country, despite the junta’s efforts to rebrand itself as an elected, civilian government myanmar-now.org/en/news/afte...
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After 100 days of ‘civilian’ rule, Myanmar remains a bastion of oppression
Basic rights remain non-existent in the country, despite the junta’s efforts to rebrand itself as an elected, civilian government
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Some of the victims were accused of being informants for the military, raising concerns about such killings by resistance forces myanmar-now.org/en/news/five...
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Five villagers killed in Myanmar’s Bago Region, sparking calls for investigation
Some of the victims were accused of being informants for the military, raising concerns about such killings by resistance forces
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Rescue workers urge the Arakan Army to do more to enforce transport safety regulations in areas under its control myanmar-now.org/en/news/11-k...
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11 killed after passenger boat capsizes in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
Rescue workers urge the Arakan Army to do more to enforce transport safety regulations in areas under its control
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The country imports 90 percent of its fuel oil,  leaving it highly exposed to closure of the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the US war on Iran myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar inflation hits 25% on US-Iran fuel shock: World Bank
The country imports 90 percent of its fuel oil, leaving it highly exposed to closure of the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the US war on Iran
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The move was not formally announced, but has been confirmed by merchants and Myawaddy residents myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar regime reopens Myawaddy-Mae Sot Friendship Bridge 2
The move was not formally announced, but has been confirmed by merchants and Myawaddy residents
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Anti-junta groups say the fall of the base in Myaing Township has given them freer access to key transport routes in the region myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar resistance forces capture pro-regime militia base in Magway Region
Anti-junta groups say the fall of the base in Myaing Township has given them freer access to key transport routes in the region
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The fall of Tonzang in Chin State and Mawdaung in Tanintharyi Region come as the junta continues to use overwhelming force to retake territory across the country myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar resistance forces lose towns on India, Thai borders
The fall of Tonzang in Chin State and Mawdaung in Tanintharyi Region come as the junta continues to use overwhelming force to retake territory across the country
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The regime forces were reportedly preparing to launch an offensive on a KIA-controlled village when they came under attack myanmar-now.org/en/news/kia-...
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KIA drone strike kills Myanmar junta troops near Hpakant
The regime forces were reportedly preparing to launch an offensive on a KIA-controlled village when they came under attack
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The police station was used by the regime as a base of operations for troops carrying out attacks on civilian targets in the area myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar resistance forces capture police station in Sagaing’s Depayin Township
The police station was used by the regime as a base of operations for troops carrying out attacks on civilian targets in the area
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The abbot was taken into regime custody last week for refusing to allow the Shanni Nationalities Army to station troops at his monastery myanmar-now.org/en/news/budd...
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Buddhist abbot detained, beaten for defying Myanmar junta ally in Kachin State
The abbot was taken into regime custody last week for refusing to allow the Shanni Nationalities Army to station troops at his monastery
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The group’s involvement in recent attacks on junta troops in Katha Township highlights growing cooperation among resistance forces myanmar-now.org/en/news/aa-j...
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AA joins clashes in northern Sagaing, as resistance fights to secure key stronghold
The group’s involvement in recent attacks on junta troops in Katha Township highlights growing cooperation among resistance forces
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Troops under the National Unity Government and the People’s Liberation Army join forces as Myanmar’s military continues its push into neighbouring Chin State myanmar-now.org/en/news/riva...
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Rival resistance forces launch joint attacks to repel junta advance in southern Magway
Troops under the National Unity Government and the People’s Liberation Army join forces as Myanmar’s military continues its push into neighbouring Chin State
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The move was seen as a test of the AA’s strength in the township, where it controls most areas outside of the main town myanmar-now.org/en/news/clas...
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Clashes flare as Myanmar military attempts to break AA blockade in Kyaukphyu
The move was seen as a test of the AA’s strength in the township, where it controls most areas outside of the main town
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Regime forces have been seen advancing toward resistance-held territories in both the south and the north of the state in recent weeks myanmar-now.org/en/news/chin...
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Chin resistance braces for Myanmar junta offensive as Mindat hit by airstrikes
Regime forces have been seen advancing toward resistance-held territories in both the south and the north of the state in recent weeks
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Concerns are growing that the regime is preparing to launch a major offensive from recaptured territory across the Ayeyarwady River in Mandalay Region myanmar-now.org/en/news/airs...
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Airstrike kills PDF fighter near Shwebo, as junta forces push into southern Sagaing
Concerns are growing that the regime is preparing to launch a major offensive from recaptured territory across the Ayeyarwady River in Mandalay Region
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Anti-junta groups vow to continue the fight, even as some forces withdraw to neighbouring Magway Region myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar military intensifies pressure on resistance strongholds southwest of Mandalay
Anti-junta groups vow to continue the fight, even as some forces withdraw to neighbouring Magway Region
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Propaganda and prejudice have long stripped the Rohingya and other minorities of their humanity, making them easy targets of violence myanmar-now.org/en/news/word...
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Words that dehumanise: The language behind anti-Rohingya hatred in Myanmar
Propaganda and prejudice have long stripped the Rohingya and other minorities of their humanity, making them easy targets of violence
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Members of the regional bloc express frustration with the lack of progress towards peace, even as the junta insists that it has restored democracy  myanmar-now.org/en/news/stil...
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Still excluded, Myanmar regime blasts ‘discriminatory’ treatment by ASEAN
Members of the regional bloc express frustration with the lack of progress towards peace, even as the junta insists that it has restored democracy
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
While goods can now enter the country through gates controlled by the Kokang armed group, the regime is preventing them from reaching other areas myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar junta blocks China border trade routes controlled by MNDAA
While goods can now enter the country through gates controlled by the Kokang armed group, the regime is preventing them from reaching other areas
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The regional bloc has been considering its options after five years of failed efforts to engage with Myanmar’s pariah regime myanmar-now.org/en/news/tiny...
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Tiny shifts seen in divided ASEAN's approach to Myanmar
The regional bloc has been considering its options after five years of failed efforts to engage with Myanmar’s pariah regime
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Myanmar nationals employed overseas must now produce a letter from their nearest embassy before re-entering the country myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar regime tightens travel restrictions on returning migrant workers
Myanmar nationals employed overseas must now produce a letter from their nearest embassy before re-entering the country
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Indigenous communities in the Chittagong Hills, bordering Myanmar, are among the worst affected myanmar-now.org/en/news/bang...
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Bangladesh measles outbreak kills over 220 children since March
Indigenous communities in the Chittagong Hills, bordering Myanmar, are among the worst affected
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Thousands flee Tanintharyi Region as soldiers raid a wedding and detain more than 20 guests as human shields. myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar junta troops sweep villages near Russia-backed Dawei port
Thousands flee Tanintharyi Region as soldiers raid a wedding and detain more than 20 guests as human shields.
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A Cambodian senator’s alleged fraud empire points beyond its borders, with prosecutors spotlighting interconnected scam operations in Myanmar myanmar-now.org/en/news/us-s...
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US slaps sanctions on Cambodian senator and others over alleged scam network
A Cambodian senator’s alleged fraud empire points beyond its borders, with prosecutors spotlighting interconnected scam operations in Myanmar
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A drone attack on a monastery also left another man dead and seriously injured a novice monk myanmar-now.org/en/news/deaf...
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Deaf brothers shot dead by Myanmar junta troops in Magway’s Natmauk Township
Junta troops killed three civilians, including two deaf brothers, in Magway Region’s Natmauk Township this week, a local resistance group said. The brothers were herding cattle near the village of…
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
With the Strait of Hormuz blocked, shipments from Gulf producers have halted, prices have nearly doubled, and farmers are scaling back planting ahead of monsoon season myanmar-now.org/en/news/iran...
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Iran war chokes Myanmar's fertiliser supply, threatening rice harvests
With the Strait of Hormuz blocked, shipments from Gulf producers have halted, prices have nearly doubled, and farmers are scaling back planting ahead of monsoon season
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The steep rise comes as food aid is cut for large portions of the 1.2 million Rohingya in Bangladesh forced to flee violence in Myanmar myanmar-now.org/en/news/rohi...
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Rohingya refugee boat exodus surges by 90 percent: Save the Children
The steep rise comes as food aid is cut for large portions of the 1.2 million Rohingya in Bangladesh forced to flee violence in Myanmar
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
There are also unconfirmed rumours that Aung San Suu Kyi could soon be moved from prison and placed under house arrest myanmar-now.org/en/news/win-...
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Win Myint, Myanmar’s ousted president, released by regime
There are also unconfirmed rumours that Aung San Suu Kyi could soon be moved from prison and placed under house arrest
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The regime shows no signs of relenting in its attacks on civilian targets as the holiday period comes to a close myanmar-now.org/en/news/two-...
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Two more civilians killed as Myanmar junta continues airstrikes during Buddhist New Year
The regime shows no signs of relenting in its attacks on civilian targets as the holiday period comes to a close
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The regime’s campaign of airstrikes on resistance-held territory in Sagaing Region continued throughout the Thingyan holidays myanmar-now.org/en/news/thre...
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Three monks dead as junta bombs monasteries during Myanmar’s Buddhist New Year
The regime’s campaign of airstrikes on resistance-held territory in Sagaing Region continued throughout the Thingyan holidays
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
In 2025, Myanmar and Sudan alone accounted for more than half of the projected total, but new conflicts are adding to the updated forecast myanmar-now.org/en/news/forc...
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Forced displacements to soar by 4.2 million worldwide by 2027, aid group warns
In 2025, Myanmar and Sudan alone accounted for more than half of the projected total, but new conflicts are adding to the updated forecast
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The camp served as a forward position for junta troops pushing to retake the resistance-held town of Falam myanmar-now.org/en/news/chin...
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Chin resistance forces capture Myanmar army camp near Falam
The camp served as a forward position for junta troops pushing to retake the resistance-held town of Falam
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Myanmar Now (English Version) @myanmar-now.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The trawler “reportedly sank due to heavy winds, rough seas, and overcrowding,” according to the UN refugee agency myanmar-now.org/en/news/abou...
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About 250 people feared missing after boat capsizes in Andaman Sea: UN
The trawler “reportedly sank due to heavy winds, rough seas, and overcrowding,” according to the UN refugee agency
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