Category: Features

News Features on Burma & Burmese issues

The real likelihood of restarting the Myitsone project, and a new order allowing lawsuits against project opponents

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – December 21 Scene(MoeMaKa) December 22, 2025 The real likelihood of restarting the Myitsone project, and a new order allowing lawsuits against project opponents Myanmar’s coup regime has issued an announcement empowering authorities to take action against…

Christmas and New Year Season for Those Displaced by War

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – December 20 Scene (MoeMaKa) December 21, 2025   Christmas and New Year Season for Those Displaced by War   In many parts of Myanmar where fighting is ongoing, there are large numbers of ethnic communities who…

The coup regime’s military attacks and control of Singu town and Letpan Hla village

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – December 19 Scene(MoeMaKa) December 20, 2025 The coup regime’s military attacks and control of Singu town and Letpan Hla village News reports say that the coup regime’s forces, which had been mounting an offensive for months,…

Junta steps up air and ground strikes in Sagaing and Mandalay regions

Myanmar Spring Chronicle — December 18 Scene(MoeMaKa) 19 December 2025 Junta steps up air and ground strikes in Sagaing and Mandalay regions The junta’s intensified campaign follows the late-October ceasefire agreement with the TNLA, which effectively reduced the need for…

KNLA detains over 50 NUG troops including a column commander, while Myitsone hydropower project is being prepared to restart

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – December 17 Scene(MoeMaKa) 18 December 2025 KNLA detains over 50 NUG troops including a column commander, while Myitsone hydropower project is being prepared to restart On 17 December, an incident occurred in Tharyar Chaung Township, Tanintharyi…

Hopes for the Spring Revolution Alliance – and Lessons from History

  Myanmar Spring Chronicle – December 16 Scene(MoeMaKa) 17 December 2025 Hopes for the Spring Revolution Alliance – and Lessons from History On 15 December, a statement was released announcing the formation of the “Spring Revolution Alliance” (SRA), composed of…

A new Spring Revolution Alliance force has emerged

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – December 15 Scene (MoeMaKa) 16 December 2025 A new Spring Revolution Alliance force has emerged In yesterday’s MoeMaKa Chronicle, I wrote about how the coup regime’s army has a “blind spot” toward the movements and activities…

The Military Commission’s Blind Spot

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – December 14 Situation Overview (MoeMaKa) December 15, 2025 The Military Commission’s Blind Spot On the morning of December 14, the coup regime held a press conference at the Myanmar Radio building in Yangon to brief the…

Junta Offensive Operations in Northern Shan State and Mandalay Region

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – December 13 Situation Overview (MoeMaKa) December 14, 2025 Junta Offensive Operations in Northern Shan State and Mandalay Region In recent months and weeks, we have seen reports that territories in Madaya, Thabeikkyin, and Singu Townships—areas that…

Myanmar and the Expanding Crisis of Transnational Scam Syndicates Protected by Armed Groups

Myanmar Spring Chronicle — December 12 Field Overview December 13, 2025 Myanmar and the Expanding Crisis of Transnational Scam Syndicates Protected by Armed Groups Over the past several years, the criminal networks known in Chinese as “pig-butchering” scams have grown…

The military junta that deliberately bombed Mrauk-U Hospital

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scenes from December 11 (MoeMaKha) December 12, 2025 The military junta that deliberately bombed Mrauk-U Hospital At around 9 p.m. on December 10, fighter jets belonging to the coup military junta dropped two 500-lb bombs on…

Success, failure, and media narratives around the “Silent Strike”

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scenes from December 10 (MoeMaKha) December 11, 2025 Success, failure, and media narratives around the “Silent Strike” On December 10, designated internationally as Human Rights Day, strike leaders from Mandalay, Yangon and Sagaing Region recently staged…

World Bank report and Myanmar’s economy during wartime

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scenes of December 9(MoeMaKa) December 10, 2025 World Bank report and Myanmar’s economy during wartime In the final few weeks of this year, the World Bank released its monitoring and assessment on Myanmar’s economy. According to…

After nearly 5 years: NUG reshuffle that trims some ministries

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – December 8 Snapshot (MoeMaKa) December 9, 2025 After nearly 5 years: NUG reshuffle that trims some ministries The National Unity Government (NUG), formed on April 17, 2021, has announced changes nearly five years later, reducing some…

Thai Foreign Minister Makes One-Day Trip to Naypyitaw

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – December 7 Overview (MoeMaKa) December 8, 2025 Thai Foreign Minister Makes One-Day Trip to Naypyitaw Only a few weeks after openly stating that Myanmar’s upcoming election would not be acceptable and would not solve the country’s…