Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 12/25/2025

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Dec 25, 2025 07:29 pm 2025 in Myanmar: The Year in Review From Chinese meddling to staged scam-center crackdowns and a sham election, The Irrawaddy looks back at the key events and figures in another difficult year for Myanmar. read on website

Dec 25, 2025 07:11 pm Myanmar Junta Chief Mobilizes Navy for Election Season Offensive Min Aung Hlaing has told personnel to train for amphibious assaults and ground combat as the regime escalates indiscriminate attacks on resistance-held territory. read on website

Dec 25, 2025 05:54 pm Myanmar Junta Escalates Attacks on Civilians in Election Countdown Deadly airstrikes, raids and artillery attacks are targeting civilians across the Bamar heartland regions of Sagaing, Mandalay and Magwe. read on website

Dec 25, 2025 05:17 pm Myanmar Business Owners Arrested as Junta Tightens Tax Noose on Mon State Importers and gold dealers charged in crackdown on tax evasion and alleged funding of resistance groups. read on website

Dec 25, 2025 05:03 pm Junta Sustains Heavy Losses in Battle for Hill Guarding Arms Factory Scores of regime soldiers have been killed in the attempt to drive the Arakan Army from Point 666, a hilltop base that guards the approach to the regime's cherished KaPaSa-16 arms factory. read on website

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