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It has been learned from the Ministry of Electricity and Energy that the Taungoo Gyi-Sittarakauk power line in Magway Region will be shut down daily from 6 AM to 6 PM from July 10 to 12 for the replacement of power lines
VICE-PRESIDENT Nan Ni Ni Aye, who is also Chair of the National Tourism Development Central Committee, presided over the committee’s first coordination meeting in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. Speaking at the meeting, the Vice-
FOR the first time in 2026, a nest of the rare Sarus Crane species was recorded on 8 July at the Kyonkapyin-Tap-seik area, according to the Kyonkapyin-Tapseik Com-munity Conservation As-sociation (KT-CCA). As part of its
THE Specialist Hospital (500-bed) in Yangon successfully performed its 40th liver transplant surgery on 3 July, involving a 48-year-old male patient and his 25-year-old niece as the liver donor. Both are receiving post-o
AT the 62nd Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 15 June to 8 July 2026, discussions on Myanmar were organized in contrary to the principles of construct
MYANMAR has begun preparations to host the 21st ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Health Development (SOM-HD) and the Sixth ASEAN-ROK SOMHD meetings in 2027, according to the 30th ASEAN-Republic of Korea Dialogue. Held i
THE Responsible Business Fund Plus (RBF+) is set to launch its third call for proposals, offering financial support to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) operating across Myanmar’s agriculture, livestock,
THE reciprocal visa ex-emption agreement be-tween Myanmar and Be-larus came into effect on 8 July, allowing citizens of both countries holding valid passports to travel visa-free for up to 30 days per visit, with a maxim
The current administration is prioritizing the revival and upgrade of long-delayed cross-border connectivity projects initiated by previous governments. T he major de-velopment pro-jects aimed at strengthening the State
Myanmar's Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) saw a slight decrease in June, according to a report from S&P Global. The PMI fell to 47.4 in June from 49.3 in May. The report stated that reduced new orders and
At the 23rd India-Myanmar bilateral meeting held in New Delhi, India on July 7 and 8, the Myanmar military junta assured that Myanmar territory would not be allowed to be used for activities detrimental to India's securi
Thailand’s new “Education for All” policy allows migrant and undocumented children from Myanmar to attend government schools. UNICEF Thailand has reported that migrant and stateless children are guaranteed 15 years of fr
Thailand’s new “Education for All” policy allows migrant and undocumented children from Myanmar to attend government schools. UNICEF Thailand has reported that migrant and stateless children are guaranteed 15 years of fr
Guest contributor Shafiur Rahman In recent months, hostility towards Rohingya refugees in Malaysia has intensified into a wider anti-Rohingya mobilisation. The Rohingya are a stateless minority from Myanmar’s Rakhine State where they have faced decades of genocidal persecution, apartheid-like restrictions and military violence.Hundreds of thousands were driven into Bangladesh by Myanmar’s 2017 military campaign, while others have made dangerous journeys over many years to Malaysia, often by sea, seeking safety, work and a future. In Malaysia, however, refugees are not formally recognised in law, cannot work legally and often live as urban refugees in conditions of insecurity. The latest backlash has gone far beyond ordinary public debate. An online petition calling for Rohingya refugees to be removed from the country gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures before it was removed. Human rights groups warned that the campaign was fuelling misinformation, harassment and threats against an already vulnerable refugee community. Another petition went further, calling for Rohingya women holding UNHCR cards, the identity documents issued by the U.N. refugee agency to registered refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia, to be sterilised. Rohingya activists and supporters have also faced online abuse, doxxing and threatening comments, while fabricated claims about Rohingya making demands for land and special rights in Malaysia have circulated widely on social media. The hostility has also been fed by repeated claims that Rohingya are responsible for crime, disorder and pressure on local communities. The police have had to intervene publicly. Inspector-General of Police Khalid Ismail said criminal cases involving Rohingya made up only 0.02 per cent of recorded crime nationwide, while the police chief in Perak, a state in northern Malaysia, urged the public not to take action themselves and said complaints should be channelled to the authorities. Yet the rhetoric has continued to escalate. On MalaysiaGazette, a Malaysian online news platform, law professor Salawati Mat Basir appeared in a discussion on Rohingya refugees and repeated, without clear condemnation, calls to shoot boats carrying Rohingya before they reached territorial waters. “Shoot. Shoot them,” she said, recounting what military and security figures had told her. “Don’t let them come into your territorial waters.” To repeat, she did not condemn the idea. Instead, she made it sound like a legitimate question of sovereignty, security and defence. The language is shocking, but it is not without precedent. It belongs to an old Malaysian script for boat refugees. In June 1979, during the Vietnamese “boat people” crisis, Malaysia’s then Deputy Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was widely reported as warning that new refugee boats would face a “shoot on sight” policy if they tried to enter Malaysian waters. The government later denied that it intended to shoot refugees, with officials even claiming Mahathir had meant “shoo” rather than “shoot”. What was revealed then is being revived now. The moment refugees appear at sea, Malaysian vocabulary can slide from humanitarian concern to deterrence, from deterrence to pushback, and from pushback to the idea of shooting people before they reach shore. The alarm has not come only from Rohingya advocates. Malaysia’s own human rights commission, SUHAKAM, has warned about rising hate speech and concerns over harassment and doxxing targeting Rohingya communities. Fortify Rights has reported calls for the expulsion of Rohingya refugees and noted that some public officials have contributed to the hostile environment through removal rhetoric. ARTICLE 19 has also warned of a recent proliferation of hate speech and discrimination targeting Rohingya refugees in Malaysia. Other civil society organisations have raised similar concerns. It is against this backdrop that one poster began circulating widely. I receive posters, leaflets and screenshots about Rohingya refugees in Malaysia almost daily now. Most of it is the usual diet of anti-Rohingya racism – invasion panic, criminality claims, demographic anxiety, calls for exclusion dressed up as public safety and news on raids. However, this poster below belongs to a particular moment – a move from anti-refugee resentment into public campaigns encouraging ordinary Malaysians to deny Rohingya housing, work, transport and trade. And it caught my eye not only because of what the poster says, but because of what is being said by those spreading it. The poster’s headline is blunt: “Jangan sampai jadi barah, cegah sekarang [Don’t let it become a cancer. Prevent it now].” Beside the headline is not a picture of some crime scene or border crossing. It is a classic germ icon, a visual shorthand for infection. The poster does not merely argue that undocumented people should be reported. It imagines them as a disease entering the body of Malaysia. The “it” is not named in the poster itself, but the context supplied by those circulating it makes the target clear – Rohingya refugees and undocumented migrants. U.N. figures show that, as of the end of February 2026, Malaysia hosted about 215,600 registered refugees and asylum seekers. Of these, 193,824 were from Myanmar, including 126,144 Rohingya, 15,774 Chin, and 33,002 people from other ethnic groups fleeing conflict or persecution in Myanmar. The remaining 21,776 were from more than 50 other countries, including Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria, Sri Lanka, Palestine and Iraq. The poster then gives four instructions: do not rent them houses, do not rent them vehicles, do not allow them to trade, and do not employ them. It ends by urging people to report violations to the authorities. On the surface, it presents itself as a law-and-order campaign. But the language tells another story. “Cancer” is not a legal category. It is a disease metaphor. It turns a vulnerable population into something malignant growing inside the body of the nation. Many Malaysians have shared it on social media. One accompanying post makes the message even clearer. It says that in the past two weeks, Rohingya have been expelled “secara besar-besaran” – on a large scale – by villagers in Seberang Perai Utara, a district in Penang, especially around Penaga, alongside Immigration operations across the state. It then warns that Rohingya are fleeing and looking for new shelter nearby, and urges landlords in Kg Baru Alma, near Bukit Mertajam in Penang, not to rent to them. So the structure is not subtle: Drive them out. Warn nearby communities. Deny them shelter. Deny them transport. Deny them work. Report them to the authorities. How is this merely “respect the law”? It is a neighbourhood vigilante campaign. The phrase “puak-puak Rohingya” is also telling. “Puak” can be translated as group, tribe, faction or l
It is known that an illegal 6-storey building used in online scam and gambling in the Shwe Kokko area was newly demolished on July 8. As the demolition of illegal buildings in the Shwe Kokko area and KK Park area of Myau
It should be considered to establish a system that will lead to friendship and peace among ethnic groups by incorporating ethnic languages from basic education, said Speaker of the Pyithu Hluttaw U Khin Ri. On July 8, Sp
Burma News International (BNI) is a network of 15 independent media and news organizations based in and around Burma Displaced civilians, businesses, and humanitarian actors operating inside Myanmar and along the volatil
Foreign Ministers from the 11-member regional bloc, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), will hold an informal meeting with the Myanmar regime foreign minister Tin Maung Swe in Bangkok on July 12, Thailand
Burma News International (BNI) is a network of 15 independent media and news organizations based in and around Burma Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in western Myanmar’s Arakan (Rakhine) State are facing deterioratin
Nai Min Lwin/Erawati Times On July 9th, the coup-elected government is destroying the bronze statues of the father of independence, General Aung San, all over Myanmar, and on the other hand, they are pretending to be pre
South China Morning Post Eastern China A massive fire broke out at a shoe factory in Fujian province on Thursday, killing 28 people, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered the rescue
Nai Min Lwin/Erawati Times July 9th Magway Region It is reported that the coup-depicted government army raided the villages in Kyang Township, burned them down, and arrested CDMs. Since last June, the selected government
The Irrawaddy Times July 9th It is reported that Thai citizens protested in front of the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok yesterday, July 8, regarding the pollution of rivers and streams in Thailand and Thailand due to illegal
The Irrawaddy Times July 9th Baguio Pa Taung Township, On June 30, an explosion occurred in a munitions-making workshop inside the Mathon area-based defense equipment factory, killing one military expert and seriously in
Yangon, July 9 According to information obtained across Myanmar on July 9, 46 Junta Council members were killed, based on statements and reports from People's Defence Forces. Khit Thit Media compiles the statements and r
The Irrawaddy Times July 9 India and Myanmar held a national meeting on Wednesday and Thursday, and the security situation along the border of the two countries was reviewed, and the representative of the military group
Erawati Times July 9th Rakhine State AA announced today on July 8 that six local residents, including a five-year-old child, were injured and some of their homes were damaged due to heavy weapons fired from warships by
It has been learned from the Myanmar Police Force that 99 individuals who committed pickpocketing on YBS bus lines, at bus stops, and in public places in Yangon from April 20 to July 7 have been arrested. It is reported
Residents of Mongnai Township in southern Shan State have raised alarms following the recent arrival of a group of Chinese nationals suspected of operating notorious telecom scam networks, locally referred to as Zhapian.
The Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) announced on Thursday that it has appointed former North Korea coach Yoon Andersen to lead the national team. Andersen, a 63-year-old Norwegian who also coached Hong Kong, signed a t
The National Unity Government (NUG) -At the United Nations General Assembly on July 6, Myanmar Ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun urged the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for the junta leader Min Aung Hla
India It is a situation where no one can say the exact number of Burmese refugees in Mizoram state. Because there is a lot of difference between the list published by the government and the situation on the ground. Why is there such a gap? What are the reasons?
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, I have visited Russia every year. The attitude of the public has changed. Fuel shortages across Russia have already begun to cause trouble. But is Putin headed for a Soviet-era regime collapse? Written by Alexander Titov Public attitudes toward the war in Ukraine have changed in recent months. Fuel shortages have occurred across Russia as Ukrainian drones have attacked Russian oil infrastructure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is also keen to end the war from a "superior position". Russia's economic crisis has led to civil unrest and political instability. There are hopes that the current ruling government may fall. This kind of incident is not unprecedented in Russian history. The Soviet Union collapsed rapidly in 1991 amid economic and political crises. But this is what happened to Russia todayWhat are the odds?
Looking at the situation in Myanmar during the second week of July, it is evident that the effects of the war are not only on the battlefronts but are also widely impacting civilian-targeted attacks, human rights abuses
AA reported that six local residents, including a five-year-old child, were injured by gunfire from a warship in Gu Township, Rakhine State. According to AA's statement, on the morning of July 8, four warships fired abou
July 9, 7 PM, French President reiterates call for unconditional release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Fighting continues to intensify in southern Myawaddy. In Guay Township, 6 people, including a child, were injured due to s