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Union Minister for Industry and MSMEs Development Dr. Charlie Than attended the coordination meeting on successful completion of the projects on Sunday. He stressed that emphasis are needed for steel production process s
Departmental combined teams are carrying out the demolishing of illegal buildings and related materials in ShweKokko and KK Park areas, in Myawady township of Kayin State. On 7th June, 3 illegal three-story building were
The government is identifying and deporting foreign nationals who entered Myanmar illegally through border areas and were involved in online gambling, online scams, and other criminal activities. They are being sent back
Mekong, June 8 The United Wa State Army (UWSA) announced on June 8 that it had repatriated 53 Chinese nationals who had entered the Wa region illegally, sending them back to China via a border gate. According to the UWSA
One woman died due to a landslide in Tangyan Township, Shan State, the Myanmar Fire Brigade announced. Around 7:30 AM on June 8, heavy rains in Tangyan Township, Lashio District, Shan State caused a landslide near a hous
Photo – Members of the People's Defence Force, Inlay People's Defence Force (IPDF) June 8 Mizzima. The Inlay People's Defence Force (IPDF) issued an urgent warning today (May 8) that two of its members are being held by
Major roads in Mandalay city, including the railway station overpass, which had been restricted for over five years, have been reopened and are now accessible again. Following the 2021 political change, roads connected t
A high-level delegation representing Myanmar’s anti-coup resistance concluded a major cross-country diplomatic tour in Canada this weekend, seeking to solidify international support and officially introduce a newly forge
Mizzima The Myanmar military junta has intensified its forced conscription campaign by launching widespread, arbitrary arrests of civilians across Kalay Township in Sagaing Region, according to the Kalay Public Strike St
Photo – Five members of a displaced family who went missing with 300 million Kyats at the Laung Chaung jetty in Rathedaung Township on April 1, 2026. (Shwe Yin Win) Po Htun Mizzima. || Five people who were on two boats h
There are moments when witnessing becomes a moral obligation. Not because one possesses answers, solutions, or influence over the forces that shape history, but because silence itself begins to feel like a form of abandonment. Today, accompanied by two dear Myanmar friends living in Mae Sot and deeply involved with the work of Joy House, I crossed the Moei River and entered an internally displaced persons camp sheltering approximately 2,000 people. The camp, like countless others scattered across Myanmar’s fractured landscape, emerged from the violence and upheaval unleashed by the military coup of February 2021. Five years later, what was once considered temporary has become a way of life. The experience defied every category that journalists, humanitarian organizations, and policymakers often employ to describe displacement. Statistics, however necessary, flatten reality. Reports quantify suffering but cannot communicate its texture. They tell us how many people have fled, how many have died, how many remain displaced, but they cannot convey the emotional atmosphere of a community suspended between endurance and uncertainty. Walking through the camp, speaking with residents, sharing tea, exchanging smiles, listening to stories translated from Burmese and Karen, I was struck not first by poverty but by dignity. The people I met were not defined by victimhood. They were teachers, doctors, mothers, fathers, elders, artists, and children struggling to preserve their humanity under conditions that would challenge the strongest among us. The camp itself consists of bamboo structures, tarpaulin roofs, dirt pathways, small gathering spaces, classrooms, and clinics. Everything bears the mark of improvisation. Yet amid material scarcity, social life continues. Women organize communal affairs. Teachers conduct lessons. Volunteers coordinate aid. Children play. Elders share memories of villages left behind. Everywhere there exists the determination to sustain community despite the forces that have sought to dismantle it. Through a gifted translator, I asked a question repeatedly throughout the day: What would you want the world to understand about your life? The answers varied in detail but converged around a common theme. People wanted to be seen. Not pitied, not romanticized, not reduced to symbols within geopolitical debates, but seen as human beings whose aspirations remain remarkably ordinary. They spoke about safety for their children. They spoke about education. They spoke about returning home. They spoke about peace. Above all, they spoke about dignity. The desire was not for extraordinary privilege but for the basic conditions under which a meaningful life can unfold. One conversation remains especially vivid. I met with the camp psychiatrist and asked about the psychological realities confronting displaced communities. His response revealed dimensions of suffering rarely captured in international headlines. He described severe depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, and profound trauma among both adults and children. When I asked whether suicidal ideation was common, he nodded quietly. Some residents, he explained, had taken their own lives. Years of uncertainty, displacement, grief, and fear accumulate in ways that can overwhelm even the strongest individuals. The wounds of war are not confined to destroyed buildings or visible injuries. They inhabit memory, imagination, sleep, relationships, and the nervous system itself. Modern warfare leaves psychological debris that often outlasts physical destruction. Entire communities become organized around vigilance. Children learn to distinguish between different sounds in the sky. Families adapt to chronic uncertainty. Fear becomes normalized. Long after the headlines fade and international attention shifts elsewhere, trauma remains embedded within the lives of those who endured the violence. What struck me most was not merely the scale of suffering but the degree to which residents continue functioning despite it. They teach, care for one another, raise children, and attempt to preserve a sense of normalcy under profoundly abnormal conditions. The camp doctor offered another perspective. When asked about the greatest challenges facing the community, he described recurring outbreaks of malaria, dengue fever, typhoid, influenza, and diarrheal diseases. Medical resources are limited. Vulnerable populations remain exposed. During the rainy season, conditions become even more difficult. Yet what stayed with me was not his description of hardship but his response when I asked about his personal dreams. Before the coup, he said, he possessed many ambitions and plans for the future. Today his aspirations have become simpler. He focuses on the patient sitting before him, the conversation at hand, the opportunity to help another human being. There was no bitterness in his voice. Instead, there was a kind of luminous clarity born from experience. In circumstances where control over the future has largely disappeared, he has discovered meaning in presence, service, and relationship. The camp also exists beneath the constant threat of violence. Residents described how military aircraft and drones periodically force people to flee toward riverbanks and improvised shelters. Schools and clinics are intentionally separated so that a single attack cannot eliminate an entire generation of students or medical personnel at once. Such decisions reveal the extraordinary calculations required to survive in contemporary conflict zones. Education must be planned around aerial bombardment. Healthcare must account for the possibility of attack. Children grow up understanding concepts that no child should ever have to learn. Yet amid these realities, I encountered one of the most inspiring models of healing I have seen in years. Joy House approaches trauma not solely through clinical intervention but through creativity, community, and human flourishing. Children learn music, dance, theatre, puppetry, martial arts, mindfulness, meditation, and visual arts. At first glance, such activities may appear secondary compared with food, medicine, and shelter. In fact, they address something equally essential. Human beings cannot survive on calories alone. We require meaning. We require imagination. We require opportunities to experience beauty, joy, and self-expression. Learning that children sing and perform in a displacement camp
“Before COVID-19 and before the Myanmar coup, I thought that ‘memory of war’ meant only World War Two inside Myanmar. But after 2021, I realized for local people the condition is like a war now.” Hitoshi Kameyama, a Japa
Last week, one topic filled Myanmar social media: a new film about the Konbaung Dynasty, the country’s last royal family. Shooting has not started yet, but the film’s huge budget and famous cast already have people talking — and arguing. Two companies, Bellarie Production and Shwe Mann Empire Film Production, will make the film together, with director Win Lwin Htet. They plan to shoot it in five parts and spend about 8 to 10 billion kyat, hoping to release it in 2027. A press launch was held recently, and the news spread fast on Facebook. Many people are excited. They welcome the big stars said to be joining, such as Nine Nine, Myint Myat and Tai Ron. “With actors like them, this film will turn out even better,” one Facebook user writes. Another feels national pride: “Neighbouring countries are also filming our history — I want to watch our own country make it like this.” But many others are suspicious. After the 2021 coup, audiences began to boycott films made by companies linked to the military. The best known is 7th Sense Creation, co-owned by junta chief Min Aung Hlaing’s daughter, Khin Thiri Thet Mon, who is under US sanctions. “In such hard economic times, who is spending billions like this? ” one commenter asks. Another adds: “Are these just 7th Sense films coming back under new names?
NGO Blood Money has spoken out against India’s recent invitation to the Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing to visit India. The following is their statement issued on 6 June: Min Aung Hlaing is attempting to gain legiti
Mekong, June 8 Sources have revealed that a secret directive has been issued to government officials stationed in Lashio, Shan State, in northern Myanmar, prohibiting them from using land routes for travel and allowing t
A bomb exploded at the Ministry of Immigration and Population office in Sagaing City, Sagaing Region, seriously injuring 20 staff members and civilians, according to locals and relief groups. The explosion occurred aroun
A “Peace Walk for Rivers” concluded in Thailand’s Chiang Rai Province on World Environment Day June 5 with urgent calls for government action and corporate accountability over transboundary river contamination. The envir
THE Department of Rural Development under the Ministry of Cooperatives and Rural Development, Kyaukpadaung Township, Mandalay Region, conducted a field inspection of the ongoing concrete road construction project in Pauk
IN the first five months of this year, 174 YBS pickpockets were arrested, according to figures released by the Yangon Region Police Force. As the regional police force has monitored pickpocketing cases on YBS buses and Y
TWO cars were swept away in water on 5 June in Magway Region’s Natmauk Township, according to the Myanmar Fire Brigade. A car was washed away in the current while crossing a creek in Tagundine Village in Natmauk at aroun
THE Department of Rural Development under the Ministry of Cooperatives and Rural Development, held a ceremony yesterday morning in Loitanttan Village of Hopong Township, Shan State (South), to disburse revolving funds un
THE Dry Zone Greening Department in Minbu District, Magway Region, has planted more than 150,000 trees across the district during the 2026 monsoon season as part of efforts to support rural development, improve environme
THE Department of Rural Development under the Ministry of Cooperatives and Rural Development loaned K41 million from the Mya Sein Yaung Village Project revolving fund to beneficiaries in Htanpingon Village, Kungyangon To
Myanmar students will participate in an upcoming global Chinese language competition to be held in China, according to the Centre for Language Education and Cooperation. The selection process for Myanmar students to comp
AUTHORITIES have continued dismantling illegal buildings used for online fraud and illegal gambling activities in Shwe Kokko, according to official reports.,The government said that joint departmental teams are carrying
OFFICIALS of the Department of Rural Development under the Ministry of Cooperatives and Rural Development conducted a field inspection of agriculture and livestock breeding activities being carried out with the Mya Sein
UNION Minister for Hotels, Tourism and Culture U Maung Myint inspected ancient structures and historic waterway sites in Bagan cultural heritage zone yesterday and reviewed ongoing preservation work. In accord with the g
DRUG enforcement police seized stimulant tablets worth K140 million in Thazi Township and Taunggyi, while another K6 million worth of stimulant tablets were confiscated in Tachilek Township, according to the Myanmar Poli
A ceremony was held at City Hall in Magway on the evening of 6 June to honour citizens from People’s Military Service batches 1 and 2 who completed their service and returned home after fulfilling national defence and se
UNION Minister for Labour U Khin Maung Soe, who is attending the 29th Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg, the Russian Federation, along with Vice-President U Nyo Saw, received Mr Konstantin
THE delegation led by Union Minister for Electricity and Energy U Ko Ko Lwin, currently on a visit to the Russian Federation, yesterday afternoon visited the smart meter manufacturing factory of Telematic Solution Co Ltd
Authorities have detained two foreign nationals involved in telecom fraud and other criminal activities. The two detainees included one national from the Russian Federation and one from the Philippines, all of whom had e
THE Yangon Region Government and well-wishers donated 500 life jackets on 6 June for commuters using the Yangon-Dala and Yangon-Seikkyi-Khanaungto water routes at a ceremony held at the Myanma Port Authority (Head Office
THE Department of Rural Development under the Ministry of Cooperatives and Rural Development, held a township-level review meeting of the Mya Sein Yaung Village Project in Monghsat Township, Shan State (East), yesterday
AS part of efforts to significantly increase the contribution of solar power systems in the country’s electricity consumption sector, the Ministry of Electricity and Energy will organize a workshop on the generation and
The Shwe Padauk Fish Market in Hline Township, Yangon, receives and distributes freshwater products nationwide, employing more than 2,000 workers daily. Every day, workers from surrounding townships, including Hline, Kyi