Category: Features

News Features on Burma & Burmese issues

The End of the Gaza War and the Prospects for a Ceasefire and Peace in Myanmar

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – October 14: Scene(MoeMaKa, October 15, 2025) The End of the Gaza War and the Prospects for a Ceasefire and Peace in Myanmar After two years and three days of relentless warfare, Israel’s military campaign to eradicate…

A Decade of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA): Commemorating Peace in a Time of War

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – October 13: Scene(MoeMaKa, October 14, 2025) A Decade of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA): Commemorating Peace in a Time of War Ten years ago, on October 15, 2015, the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) was signed between…

MDY-PDF’s Local Administration and Air-Strike Risk Precautions

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – October 12: Scene(MoeMaKa) October 13, 2025 MDY-PDF’s Local Administration and Air-Strike Risk Precautions On October 12, a video spread rapidly on social media showing public security personnel and MDY-PDF members entering a house in Lepan Hla…

Interwoven Issues of Democracy, Ethnicity, and Human Rights

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – October 11: Scene(MoeMaKa, October 12, 2025) Interwoven Issues of Democracy, Ethnicity, and Human Rights Across Myanmar’s ongoing civil war, fierce battles continue over territory, towns, and military bases. Yet among all these conflicts, Rakhine State stands…

Venezuelan Opposition Leader Chosen for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – October 10: Scene(MoeMaKa) October 11, 2025 Venezuelan Opposition Leader Chosen for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize If there is a political award that draws the world’s keenest attention, it is likely the Nobel Peace Prize selected…

Malaysian Foreign Minister’s Naypyitaw Trip; Night Curfews Imposed in Hpakant and Myitkyina

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – October 9: Scene(MoeMaKa) October 10, 2025 Malaysian Foreign Minister’s Naypyitaw Trip; Night Curfews Imposed in Hpakant and Myitkyina Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan, serving as ASEAN’s rotating chair, visited Naypyitaw with his delegation, met coup leader…

Junta Claims Seizure of 195 Billion Kyat Worth of Narcotics

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – October 8: Scene(MoeMaKa) October 9, 2025 Junta Claims Seizure of 195 Billion Kyat Worth of Narcotics The military junta has announced that narcotics worth 195 billion kyat—allegedly bound for Rakhine State and Malaysia—were uncovered and seized…

Kyat Appreciation Amid Soaring Prices: The Public’s Struggle to Survive

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – October 7: SceneMoeMaKa, October 8, 2025 Kyat Appreciation Amid Soaring Prices: The Public’s Struggle to Survive In the past two to three weeks, the Myanmar kyat has appreciated noticeably. For several months, the exchange rate had…

A blood-stained full moon of Thadingyut

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Viewpoint for October 6 (MoeMaKa) October 7, 2025 A blood-stained full moon of Thadingyut On the full-moon day of Thadingyut, some places in Myanmar were bustling—pagodas and monasteries filled with people, a public holiday at the…

Is the revolutionary tide ebbing?

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Viewpoint for October 5 (MoeMaKa) October 6, 2025 Is the revolutionary tide ebbing? Nearly four and a half years—almost five—have passed since the coup. After the 2020 election victory, the NLD’s MPs formed the National Unity…

How ordinary people in Myanmar struggle to survive amid many kinds of hardship

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Viewpoint for October 4 (MoeMaKa) October 5, 2025 How ordinary people in Myanmar struggle to survive amid many kinds of hardship Each day’s news is filled with stories like these: IDPs cutting back to one scant…

Inter-ethnic frictions during the Spring Revolution

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Viewpoint for October 3 (MoeMaKa) October 4, 2025 Inter-ethnic frictions during the Spring Revolution In recent weeks, the battle to seize Banmauk in Sagaing District pitted, on one side, the KIA and its allies — PDF…

Pay top-ups for civil servants and pensioners raised by 30,000 kyat, while the public faces unprecedented prices

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Viewpoint for October 2 (MoeMaKa) October 3, 2025 Pay top-ups for civil servants and pensioners raised by 30,000 kyat, while the public faces unprecedented prices The military regime announced on September 30 that it would grant…

Three Karen armed groups say they will support and secure the election

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – October 1 View Moemaka, October 2, 2025 Three Karen armed groups say they will support and secure the election On September 28, three Karen armed groups based in Kawkareik, Myawaddy, and Hlaingbwe townships met in Theik…

The latest battlefield picture in Northern Shan—and the back-and-forth fight for towns

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – September 30 View (MoeMaKha), October 1, 2025 The latest battlefield picture in Northern Shan—and the back-and-forth fight for towns In recent days one headline has dominated the news: the battle to seize Kyaukme. After years of…