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Yangon, June 17 The Strategic and Policy Studies Group (ISP-Myanmar), which primarily studies Myanmar affairs, today, June 17, issued a statement expressing deep concern over the unjust detention of its Executive Directo
Party officials describe the move as a sign that the junta continues to view the NLD as a significant political threat.
Reviving the Cambodia Model to End the Civil War and Build a Federal Union The recent state visit of Myanmar’s President Min Aung Hlaing to Beijing in June 2026, marked by the full diplomatic honors of a “red carpet” wel
Government of National Unity Dr. Zaw Wai Soe, Union Minister of the Union Prime Minister's Office of the National Unity Government (NUG) today (June 17) urged all people to participate in the "Rose Public Movement" to be
The National Unity Government (NUG) -In Gantgaw Township of Magway Region, there were two attacks on the junta’s camp in Shaungbin Village. According to the People’s Defence Force, 5 weapons were confiscated. -At 1:00 pm
Photo – Funeral being held at Yay Twin cemetery outside Kale town (Archive photo / Kar Yae Kam Maytar Social Assistance Association). In Kale Township, Sagaing Region, Ko Ye Zaw (33), who made a living selling brooms, we
National Unity Government (NUG) Union Prime Minister's Office Union Minister Dr. Zaw Wai Soe's social network. (Zaw Wai Soe) June 17 Mizzima. . Dr. Zaw Wai Soe, Union Minister of the Union Prime Minister's Office of the
At the invitation of President Mr. Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China, President U Min Aung Hlaing, who is currently on a State Visit to the People’s Republic of China, met and held discussions Tuesday afternoo
At the invitation of President Mr. Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China, the Myanmar high-level delegation led by President U Min Aung Hlaing, who is currently on a State Visit to the People’s Republic of China,
At the invitation of President Mr. Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China, President U Min Hlaing, who is currently on a State Visit to PRC, met with staff members, family members, and scholarship trainees from the
Union Minister for Helth Dr. Thet Khaing Win attended the opening ceremony of a 2-storey hospital building at Dagon Myo Thit (East) Hospital in Yangon on Tuesday. First, the Union Minister and officials opened the buildi
Paper reading session held under the title, “Waziya Cinema: Heritage of Arts passed the Multi Era” took place at Sarso Beikman in Yangon on June 16th. Union Minister for Information U Htein Lin attended the event togethe
The Speaker of the Pyithu Hluttaw, U Khin Yi, accompanied by the Deputy Speaker, U Maung Maung Ohn, and officials from the Pyithu Hluttaw Office, met with members of the International Relations Committee Tuesday afternoo
On behalf of the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Union Minister for the Ministry of President’s Office U Tin Aung San signed the book of condolences opened at the Royal Thai Embassy in Yangon Tuesday
In order to implement cooperative-based agricultural businesses, Union Minister for Cooperative and Rural Development U Myo Zaw Thein and concerned officials met with the local farmers from Yangon and Bago regions on Tue
A youth awareness talk jointly organized by the Myanmar Central Committee for Youth Affairs and the Nay Pyi Taw Council was held Tuesday morning at Basic Education High School No. 6, Zabuthiri Township under the theme “Y
The Mekong Tourism Forum 2026 and related meetings are being hosted by Myanmar, a member country of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), under the theme “Tourism for People, Travel with Purpose.” The events are being held
Mekong, June 17 The Danu State National Defence Army (DSNDA) has issued a warning for the public not to be deceived by the propaganda and incitement by the military junta and its associates, who are attempting to instiga
Mekong, June 17 In Mine Tone Township, Shan State, an illegal gold mining site operating under the pretext of saltpeter mining permits was raided by the military's Shan State Minister for Forests and Natural Resources, U
It is known that Myanmar and Cambodia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the tourism sector between the two countries. The Mekong Tourism Forum - 2026 and related meetings are being hosted
The examination for the special placement test program in Southern Shan State is continuing for the third day. According to the Shan State Education Department, the number of examinees for this special placement test pro
It has been learned that natural gas production has increased as a result of research and extended drilling of sand layers at well No. 22 in the Maubin (South) oil and gas field. The Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise under t
The Ministry of Electricity and Energy has announced that action has been taken against 13 individuals who were using electricity through illicit means out of 52 commercial meters in use in Mawlamyine and Hpa-an township
It is reported that a new 2-storey treatment building has been opened at Dagon New Town (East) People's Hospital. The opening ceremony of the new 2-storey treatment building at Dagon New Town (East) People's Hospital in
Military junta forces removed a portrait of General Aung San from the front gate of State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s residence at No. 54 University Avenue Road, Yangon, on the night of 14 June, under the pretext o
Chinese and Russian-backed tungsten mining projects are advancing in Mongton Township, the southwesternmost part of eastern Shan State, with local communities already experiencing a range of negative impacts from the ope
The Zomi Revolutionary Army–Eastern Command (ZRA-EC), a Chin State-based armed group aligned with Myanmar's military junta, executed a young man from Tedim Township after accusing him of involvement in the killing of one
The pageantry in Beijing was for the cameras. The single sentence that mattered was a quiet confession that the man Beijing was hosting still does not have his own people’s consent. Guest contributor James Shwe The optics out of Beijing on June 16 were unambiguous. A 21-gun salute on Tiananmen Square. An honor guard in the Great Hall of the People. A welcome banquet in the Golden Hall. Eighteen memoranda of understanding signed in a single afternoon. By the time Xi Jinping had finished hosting Min Aung Hlaing — civilian president by way of a coup, an army-engineered election, and a parliament from which every credible opposition party had been excluded — Myanmar’s former junta chief had been handed everything a state visit can confer: protocol, photographs, and the implicit message that the world’ssecond-largest economy was prepared to deal with his administration as a full partner. There was a multitude of news reports and articles on this. I managed to work through eight reports among them that — Chinese state readouts from Xinhua and China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (via the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC); wire and regional coverage from Anadolu Agency, Turkish Radio and Television World, The Straits Times, Nikkei Asia and AsiaNews; and a Modern Diplomacy analysis. Two of the eight are not journalism at all but Chinese government communiqués. One is open opinion. Five are news reports, three of them carrying the Reuters dateline. None of the major United States newspapers — The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times — has run an original story. The American press has effectively conceded the framing of this visit to Chinese state media and to a handful of regional desks in Bangkok, Singapore and Tokyo. That silence matters, because the most important sentence of the entire visit is sitting in plain sight inside Beijing’s own carefully drafted readouts — and it is a sentence the military regime in Naypyidaw cannot answer. President Xi told Min Aung Hlaing, on the record in Xinhua and in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ own version, to “find a correct path of development that suits its national conditions and wins popular support.” He added that China “supports all parties in Myanmar in advancing peace and reconciliation through dialogue.” Beijing reaffirmed its long-standing line about “non-interference” and a “friendly policy toward all the people of Myanmar” — not all the generals. Read those phrases the way a Burmese diplomat would. They are not a blessing. They are a condition. Min Aung Hlaing’s most important international patron has just said in public, on state television, that he does not yet have popular support and that legitimacy still has to be earned. The election the regime staged in December and January — the one that excluded every major opposition party, the one the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and most of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) refused to recognize — did not buy him legitimacy in Beijing’s eyes either. If it had, Xi would not have needed to ask for it. Two other facts inside the same news cycle sharpen the point. Days before the visit, Chinese security services in Kunming arrested Min Zin, an American citizen, the director of the Institute for Strategy and Policy (ISP-Myanmar), and one of the most respected scholars working on Sino-Myanmar relations. The charge: espionage. The real signal: Beijing does not want independent analysts looking too closely at what it is doing in Myanmar at the very moment it is deepening its bet on the generals. A confident patron does not need to arrest its critics on the eve of a state banquet. And on the day of the talks themselves, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) — one of the most powerful ethnic resistance organizations along the Chinese border — handed over 200 prisoners of war to the regime, almost certainly under Chinese pressure. Beijing only leans on the ethnic resistance organizations because they hold real cards. You do not pressure the powerless. The resistance is on the battlefield ledger whether or not it is on the guest list. So, what should the resistance — the National Unity Government (NUG), the ethnic resistance organizations, the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), the Steering Council for the Emergence of a Federal Democratic Union (SCEF) and the diaspora that supports them — do with this opening? First, make Xi’s own words travel. In Burmese, English and Mandarin. Ask, publicly and repeatedly, who exactly are “the people” whose support Min Aung Hlaing has yet to win. Every time the regime claims legitimacy from its rigged ballot, hold up Xi’s sentence next to it. Second, fill the vacuum the American press has left. With no original reporting from the U.S. yet, the next 72 hours are an open field for op-eds, congressional briefings, and direct engagement with the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The story to tell is not that China supported Min Aung Hlaing. It is that even China could not bring itself to call him popularly supported. Third, open a quiet, serious channel to Beijing. Through Yunnan-based academics, through ASEAN intermediaries, through Track-2 diplomacy outside official government channels. The message is concrete: the China–Myanmar Economic Corridor, the rare-earth supply chains in Kachin State, the pipelines through Shan State, and the security of Chinese nationals all run through territory the resistance shapes. Any genuine “peace and reconciliation through dialogue” has to include the NUG, the ethnic resistance organizations, the SCEF and the CDM — not only interlocutors hand-picked by the generals. Fourth, internationalize the Min Zin case. An American scholar detained on the eve of a Chinese state visit, on transparently political charges, is an academic-freedom story, a due-diligence story for investors guided by Environmental, Social and Governance standards, and a candidate for Global Magnitsky designations. American editors will run it if the diaspora hands it to them clean. Fifth, target the environmental, social and governance and sanctions pressure points the eight reports flagged: the mooted revival of the Myitsone Dam, heavy rare-earth mining in Kachin State, and the 18 memoranda of understanding signed on June 16. Map the Chinese state-owned and private entities involved. Push European, British, American, Korean and Japanese buyers, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds to disclose their exposure to regime-linked supply chains. Sixth, break the “stability” frame that runs through every wire story this week. A regime that controls only part of its own territory, has presided over more than 93,000 deaths and displaced 3.7 million people, cannot deliver
It has been learned from a statement by the Ministry of Electricity and Energy that out of 52 commercial meters being used in Mawlamyine city, Mon State, and Pa-an city, Kayin State, 13 individuals who obtained and used
Approximately 8.2 million cubic feet of natural gas are being produced daily from the Maubin oil field in Ayeyarwady Region, according to the Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) under the Ministry of Electricity and Ene
The United Nations said Tuesday that about 2.4 million refugees will need to be resettled next year. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned that options are dwindling for refugees who can neither return to their home count
A ceremony was held on the morning of June 16 to open a new two-story ward at the People's Hospital in Dagon New Town (East) Township, Yangon Region, which will provide better healthcare services to over 400,000 resident
In the early months of April and May of the 2026-2027 fiscal year, the amount of investment in the country reached 47.605 million US dollars, according to data from the Directorate of Investment and Company Administratio
The forced conscription and acts of violence committed due to the military junta's implementation of the conscription law are events that are encountered on a daily basis. Ma Lin Let Su, an official from the People Movem
Kawthoolei is the endonym for a proposed state that Karen nationalists have sought to establish. In a message marking the 77th anniversary of Kawthoolei Day on June 14, the KNU Chairman said it is necessary to understand
An airstrike and gunfire hit a monastery in Yaetwinkone Village on March 5, killing 28 civilians, including a pregnant woman and children. According to Fortify Rights, the findings are based on field interviews with surv