News Features on Burma & Burmese issues
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – View from September 29 (MoeMaKa), September 30, 2025 Kyaukme Becomes the Second Town the TNLA Has Had to Withdraw From After the junta retook Nawnghkio in mid-July—ending roughly a year of TNLA control—events two-plus months later…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – View from September 28 (MoeMaKa), September 29, 2025 The Core Political Ideologies Underpinning Nearly 80 Years of Myanmar’s Civil War The span of Myanmar’s civil war has become almost as long as the country’s period of…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – View from September 27 (MoeMaKa, September 28, 2025) The junta’s daily airstrikes that keep killing and injuring civilians In recent days, a deeply distressing report emerged from Kan Htu Ma village in Sagaing Region: a junta…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – View from September 26 (MoeMaKa, September 27, 2025) An era where the world seems to be drifting in a darker direction The United Nations was founded in June 1945, only months after World War II ended,…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – View from September 25 (MoeMaKa, September 26, 2025) The coup leader’s trip to Russia The Myanmar coup leader left the country on September 24 to attend the World Nuclear Forum 2025 in Moscow. This comes as…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – View from September 24 (MoeMaKa, September 25, 2025) Karen State front surges with manpower and arms; Kachin State front stalls After holding the line for over a year, the coup military has, since last August, regrouped…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – View from September 23 (MoeMaKa, September 24, 2025) ULA/AA detains a female journalist in Maungdaw, Rakhine State The United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA), which controls parts of Rakhine State, detained female journalist Ma Mudra in…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – View from September 22 (MoeMaKa, September 23, 2025) Disaster preparedness under military rule amid war and natural hazards During July–September—the Northern Hemisphere summer—tropical cyclones typically form. In recent years, influenced by global climate change, these storms…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – View from September 21 (MoeMaKa, September 22, 2025) After six days of fighting for Banmauk, resistance forces hold much of the town In Banmauk (population 8,500+), Katha District, Kachin State, resistance forces launched an offensive on…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – View from September 20 (MoeMaKa, September 21, 2025) To grasp reality, we must look beyond propaganda A question I often find myself asking is whether the public, the armed resistance groups of the Spring Revolution, and…
