Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 12/27/2025

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Dec 27, 2025 11:15 am Myanmar Junta Lifts Yangon Curfew Ahead of Elections Myanmar junta lifts Yangon's curfew days before its sham elections—claiming "stability" amid ongoing civil war and repression. read on website

MORE ARTICLES Who, Where, and Why: Inside the Myanmar Junta's Phase One Election Myanmar Junta Bars Independent Domestic Monitors From Sunday's Election    Myanmar Election's Third Phase to Cover Fewer Areas Than Thought Why Myanmar's Election Is Rigged Junta Blacklists Myanmar Expats in Korea Over Election Protests

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Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 12/26/2025

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Dec 26, 2025 08:48 pm Who, Where, and Why: Inside the Myanmar Junta's Phase One Election As the regime presses ahead with a tightly controlled first phase of voting on Sunday, large swathes of the country remain beyond its reach and political opponents are shut out.     read on website

Dec 26, 2025 07:56 pm Myanmar Junta Bars Independent Domestic Monitors From Sunday's Election    Scrutiny of vote widely regarded as a fraud to entrench military rule will be confined to regime's supporters at home and abroad. read on website

Dec 26, 2025 06:29 pm Myanmar Election's Third Phase to Cover Fewer Areas Than Thought On Jan. 25, the junta hopes, another 63 townships will go to the polls, whether its writ runs there or not. But even that is nine fewer than expected. read on website

Dec 26, 2025 04:32 pm Why Myanmar's Election Is Rigged The junta-organized election has been engineered in a myriad subtle and unsubtle ways to ensure there can only be one winner: the military regime. read on website

Dec 26, 2025 03:53 pm Junta Blacklists Myanmar Expats in Korea Over Election Protests Military regime exports repression abroad as Seoul embassy targets protesters for rallying against its sham poll. read on website

MORE ARTICLES Myanmar's Quagmire: 2025 in Review Myanmar Junta Chief Mobilizes Navy for Election Season Offensive Myanmar Junta Escalates Attacks on Civilians in Election Countdown Myanmar Business Owners Arrested as Junta Tightens Tax Noose on Mon State Junta Sustains Heavy Losses in Battle for Hill Guarding Arms Factory

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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

MORE ARTICLES Election… What Election? Yangon Shrugs at Sunday's Junta-Run Poll How China Angles for Leverage Along the Thai-Myanmar Border Tight Security, Voter Apathy Grip Mandalay Ahead of Junta-Run Election  Will the Myitsone Dam Project Be Restarted? Myanmar Junta Using 'Brutal Violence' to Force People to Vote: UN

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