Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 18, 2025 Evening

Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 18, 2025 Evening 📌📌 1. NUG Foreign Minister Daw Zin Mar Aung Meets Myanmar Communities in Norway August 18 NUG Foreign Minister Daw Zin Mar Aung met with Myanmar communities in Norway and provided a detailed...

Myanmar faces Australia in AFF MSIG Serenity Cup 2025 final today

Myanmar will take on Australia at the final match of the AFF MSIG Serenity Cup 2025 today in Vietnam. At 4:00 pm Myanmar Standard Time on 19 August (today), as the third-placed match, the host Vietnam team will compete against the Thai team. At...

Myanmar junta sets Dec. 28 for first phase of general election

Myanmar’s military regime said it has scheduled Dec. 28 for the first phase of a general election, despite ongoing civil conflict and boycotts by democratic opposition groups. The Union Election Commission announced Monday that seats in both...

Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 18, 2025 Evening

Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 18, 2025 Evening 🚩🚩 1. At Least 20 Houses Burned Down by PNO Militias Led by Crony Nay Win Tun in Naung Bo Village, Hsihseng Township August 18 On August 18, the PNLA released a statement, with video evidence,...

Myanmar to hold general elections starting December

Myanmar's election commission has announced that general elections will start in late December. The Union Election Commission on Monday said the "multi-party democratic" general elections will start on December 28. The military seized power in a...

Myanmar junta sets Dec 28 poll date

Myanmar sets December 28 for elections

ALBAWABA - Myanmar's junta revealed that it will be holding elections on December 28, AFP reported on Monday. According to sources, the elections are the first since the fall of the old regime, headed by Aung San Suu Kyi, who served as State...

War-torn Myanmar to hold long-awaited elections on Dec 28

Myanmar’s military-appointed election commission on Monday announced that the elections would begin on December 28, setting a date for polls that critics have denounced as a sham intended to normalise the army’s 2021 seizure of power even as armed...

A Glimpse of Dr Aung Myint Oo’s four books on the Myanmar language and literature

By Myint Zan First person to obtain a PhD in Myanmar from the University of Yangon Dr Aung Myint Oo (born 25 May 1960) is a retired Professor of Myanmar. He was the first person to get a doctoral degree in Myanmar (language and linguistics) from...

New Myanmar romantic TV series to premiere on 30 Aug

The Myanmar television drama series titled ‘Ko Lu Soe Lay, My Love’ will be broadcast from 30 August onwards, according to Nora Ko, the director of the series. The series will be aired at 9 pm every Saturday and Sunday starting from 30 August, on...

Several hundred Rohingyas wait along the Naf in Myanmar

Several hundred Rohingyas are reportedly stranded just across the Naf River opposite Teknaf, unable to enter Bangladesh due to tightened border security, according to Rohingya community leaders. They estimate that around 300-400 Rohingyas have...

Myanmar junta sets election date of Dec. 28

Myanmar’s junta yesterday said that long-promised elections would start on Dec. 28, despite a raging civil war that has put much of the nation out of its control and international monitors slating the poll as a charade. Myanmar has been consumed...

GNF urges KIA to halt coercion of Naga youths in Myanmar

Dimapur, August 18 (MExN): The Global Naga Forum (GNF) today expressed strong support for the Naga Students’ Organisation (NSO) Myanmar’s (Burma) stance against the alleged “abduction and forced conscription” of Naga youths in Shinbwiyang by the...

Myanmar found 1,266 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Nov 10

Myanmar found 1,266 new COVID-19 confirmed patients on November 10 bringing the total number of patients to 63,241 and 24 more people died, announced the Ministry of Health and Sports (MOHS) on the night of November 10. A total of 17,000 samples...

Myanmar temporarily closes Myawaddy–Mae Sot Friendship Bridge No. 2, stranding over 500 trucks

Starting from this morning (August 18), the transport of goods across the Myanmar–Thailand Myawaddy–Mae Sot Friendship Bridge No. (2) has been temporarily suspended on the Myanmar side. “Yes, the bridge has been temporarily closed, but we don’t...

Myanmar: Civil war still raving, however junta reveals nationwide election from Dec 28

Myanmar will hold the preliminary stage of its basic election on December 28, state tv stated on Monday, detailing a roadmap for the very first surveys in the war-torn nation in almost 5 years that have actually currently been derided by critics...

Myanmar junta sets December 28 poll date despite raging...

YANGON, Aug 18: Myanmar's junta said Monday that long-promised elections will start on December 28, despite a raging civil war that has put much of the country out of its control, and international monitors slating the poll as a charade. Myanmar...

Several hundred Rohingyas stranded along Naf River in Myanmar

Tightened border security preventing Rohingyas from crossing, say community leaders Several hundred Rohingyas are reportedly stranded just across the Naf River opposite Teknaf, unable to enter Bangladesh due to tightened border security, according...

Myanmar to hold first general election since 2021 coup amid ongoing civil war

Myanmar's military has announced the first phase of a general election to be held in late December, in a poll widely seen as an attempt to lend the junta legitimacy following its 2021 coup. State-run television said on Monday that the elections...

Myanmar: Civil war still raging, but junta announces national election from Dec 28

Even as a civil war continues to rage in the country, Myanmar’s junta has announced that the first phase of national elections will take place on December 28. The exercise has been condemned internationally as a sham as the junta is bound to...