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The Kachin Independence Army and its allies are reportedly closing in on one of the regime's Kachin State power hubs as the junta replies with airstrikes.
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The regime's new earthquake committee says it has 40 inspection teams detailing the damage caused in the capital by the March 28 earthquake.
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In a nation rocked by centuries of devastating earthquakes, none comes close to the death and devastation unleashed a month ago in Sagaing.
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From vintage-car parade to alms offerings to 120 monks, the northern Thai city on Wednesday marked the 90th anniversary of the road to Wat Phra Doi Suthep, the sacred temple overlooking the city.
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Rishi Bhatt, visiting with his wife and child, was ziplining in Pahalgam when gunfire erupted below, killing 26 people and injuring a dozen others.
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While Myanmar often amnesties or simply repatriates Chinese suspects and criminals, Myanmar inmates in China serve harsh sentences, many exploited as slave labor.
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The regime has been unable or unwilling to restore order in Lashio since China pressured the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army to withdraw.
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While Bangladesh's interim government backs the idea of a UN aid corridor to Rakhine State, some political parties have raised concerns over sovereignty and security.
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This week's Irrawaddy editorial discussion asks what China will do with its influence over Myanmar's junta.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 04/30/2025
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 04/29/2025
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Regime forces are advancing on Mobye in southern Shan State, which was liberated in November 2023.
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The junta's attempts to auction off the lakeside mansion where civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi spent years under house arrest failed for the fourth time Tuesday as no bidder showed up.
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Thai King Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida personally piloted the royal Boeing 737-800 to and from their state visit to Bhutan over the weekend.
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The EU Council has renewed sanctions against the regime as well as businesses linked to the military, freezing their assets and barring any payments to them for another year.
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The Lang Pacha ritual offers dignity to the nameless dead and calls attention to the need for better systems to identify those who die after going missing.
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"We are not enemies." The popular heartthrob calls on Beijing to stop propping up the junta and let the people of Myanmar determine their own future.
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Monday, April 28, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 04/28/2025
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Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city, bore the heaviest toll of death and destruction when the 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on March 28. The regime has not updated casualty figures for the city since April 4, when 2,122 deaths were recorded. That number has likely risen significantly in the past few weeks. One month on, today […]
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The Jamaat-e-Islami party raised the possibility in a meeting with Chinese Communist Party officials who were visiting Dhaka.
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Mohammed Yunus' interim government has defended unofficial contact with the Rakhine armed group, which has seized the entire Myanmar side of the border.
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Karen National Union says more than 100 air and artillery strikes killed 20 residents across its territory during the regime's 20-day 'ceasefire'.
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The massive earthquake on March 28 razed centuries of Myanmar's sacred history, including the all-white Nagayon Pagoda in Mandalay dating from the early 1800s.
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Thousands of survivors shelter in makeshift caps amid a shortage of aid as junta bombardments of opposition strongholds continue despite a nominal truce.
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The US funding freeze threatens the existence of Myanmar's independent media, whose absence would widen the information void left by the junta's crackdown on the press.
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