News Features on Burma & Burmese issues
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
