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Lessons from Burma’s resistance
Source: Taipei Times
Despite being severely outnumbered and outgunned, the resistance has managed to retake about 80 percent of the country’s territory.
By Antonio Graceffo
They are torturing the local people by taking up arms. That’s why I decided to join the Dawna Column, to fight back and protect our Mon region
By Burma News International | Independent Mon News Agency
An interview with Chan Mon, a young Mon soldier who was forcibly drafted into military service while traveling back from Thailand to Mon State for a visit and later chose to surrender to the Dawna Column
By Chan Mon, young Mon soldier who was forcibly drafted into military service
AA Seals Off Cronies’ Residences and Government Offices in Maungdaw
Source: Narinjara News
A Muslim elder from Maungdaw clarified that the sealed properties comprise those belonging to junta-affiliated cronies and also those tied to the terrorist organizations.
By Naung Min Thu, Narinjara News
Myanmar to build 110MW nuclear plant, partner on Dawei Port with Russia
By The Nation
Speaking to reporters on March 5 following the Myanmar-Russia Economic Forum in Moscow, Zaw Min Tun confirmed the agreements
By The Nation
Criminal Court denies Thaksin’s request to attend ASEAN meeting in Indonesia
Source: The Nation
The Criminal Court has denied former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s request to leave Thailand to attend the ASEAN meeting in Indonesia on March 7, 2025
By The Nation
Belarus, Myanmar sign over 10 agreements at business forum
Source: BelTA
Enterprises of Belarus and Myanmar signed 13 bilateral documents at the Belarus-Myanmar business forum in Minsk on 6 March, BelTA has learned.
By BelTA
JFM calls on Switzerland to sanction Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise
Source: Justice for Myanmar
Switzerland’s inaction undermines EU sanctions by creating a loophole that allows MOGE and its partners access to the Swiss financial system and permits Swiss companies to operate in the oil and gas sector in Myanmar.
Press Release | Justice for Myanmar
Military Regime Can’t Defeat Myanmar’s Brave Hearts
Source: Irrawaddy
It did not take long for Myanmar people, particularly students and other young people, to throw themselves into the streets to retake the rights they had so recently enjoyed, and to restore for themselves a bright future
By Kyaw Zwe Moe
WFP appeals for urgent funding to prevent ration cuts to over one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
Source: World Food Programme
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns of a critical funding shortfall for its emergency response operations in Bangladesh, jeopardizing food assistance for over one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
News Release | World Food Programme
‘How could I do any less?’: Chin State’s Mother of Resistance
Source: Frontier Myanmar
While thousands of civilians flee Myanmar’s war, grandmother Ama and others stay behind, forming the invisible backbone of the anti-junta struggle.
By Salai JOHNNY and Lorcan LOVETT | Frontier
Rohingya refugee food aid to be halved from next month: UN
Source: Channel News Asia
Rations will be halved for around one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from next month due to a lack of funds, the United Nations food agency has said.
By Agence France-Presse
Myanmar’s Arakan Army captures 56 Bangladeshi fishermen
Source: Anadolu Agency
’56 fishermen were apprehended by the Arakan Army on Wednesday while fishing along Myanmar’s border in the bay,’ senior official tells Anadolu
By Sm Najmus Sakib
Myanmar sends first workers to Russia; junta chief to Belarus
Source: Radio Free Asia
Myanmar has sent workers to Russia for the first time with 24 skilled construction employees setting off on Wednesday, Myanmar’s military government said
By RFA Burmese
Mizoram MP invites Myanmar’s Chin Rebels to join India, citing shared ethnic ties
Source: The statesman
Mizoram’s Rajya Sabha MP K Vanlalvena has invited Myanmar’s Chinland Council to consider joining India, citing Myanmar’s political instability and the deep ethnic ties between the Chin and Mizo communities.
By Statesman News Service
Catholic pastoral center bombed in Myanmar
Source: Vatican News
Amid ongoing tensions and fighting, Burmese armed forces have bombed and destroyed a Catholic pastoral center of the Diocese of Banmaw in the northern part of Myanmar.
By Deborah Castellano Lubov
Maldives submits observations in Rohingya Muslims case proceeding at ICJ
Source: Raajje.mv
Attorney General Ahmed Usham, has submitted written observations on behalf of the Maldives on 28 February 2025 to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case of “Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar)”.
By Zunana Zalif
Myanmar junta airstrike hits IDP shelter in Demoso, injuring civilians and destroying homes
Source: Mizzima
Karenni State hosts over 300,000 IDPs, more than 65,000 reside in Demoso Township alone.
By Mizzima
Myanmar’s military recaptures camps from rebels in Shan state
Source: Radio Free Asia
The ethnic TNLA had controlled the camps since taking them in a major offensive last year.
By RFA Burmese
Myanmar junta airstrikes kill 12 civilians near oil field, dozens injured
Source: Mizzima
Myanmar’s military junta launched a series of airstrikes on villages near the Latpanto oil field, situated at the border of Myaing and Pauk townships in Magway Region
By Mizzima
“The Feasibility of Holding a New Election and the Trajectory of the Revolution”
Source: Myanmar Peace Monitor
The report examines various topics, including the likelihood of a new election under the military junta, the scope of the regions where the election might be held, the stance of revolutionary forces regarding the junta’s planned election
Analysis Paper | Myanmar Peace Monitor
The Anwar-Thaksin Deal: A Masterstroke or Miscalculation?
Source: Fulcrum
Anwar Ibrahim, the prime minister of Malaysia, has roped in former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra as his informal advisor ahead of Kuala Lumpur assuming the ASEAN chairmanship. This might be ill-advised.
By Napon Jatusripitak is a Visiting Fellow and Acting Coordinator of the Thailand Studies Programme, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
KIA and TNLA clash over checkpoints and tax collection in Myanmar’s northern Shan State
Source: Mizzima
The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) have engaged in clashes across at least four townships in northern Shan State during the first two months of 2025, according to reports.
By Mizzima
Japan ready to lead int’l talks on Myanmar scam operations: Ishiba
Source: The Mainichi
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba proposed Wednesday that Japan take the lead in organizing an international conference to discuss measures against scam operations in Myanmar where thousands of people from across the world have been forced to work.
By The Mainichi
Putin hails ‘elephant diplomacy’ with Myanmar
Source: Bangkok Post
Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed expanding ties with ally Myanmar at talks with its military junta chief on Tuesday and thanked him for gifting Moscow six elephants.
By Reuters
ASEAN’s Five-Point Consensus, but with Women, Peace and Security?
Source: E-International Relations
Nonetheless, with only dormant implementation, some legitimacy-lending acknowledgement of the junta regime, and increasing disconnect to popular demands of Myanmar’s people
By Peixuan Xie