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Myanmar’s junta said on Monday it raided one of the country’s most notorious cyberscam centers and seized Starlink satellite internet devices.
An official from the commission set up by Myanmar’s ruling military junta to oversee upcoming elections said Thursday that the results of the widely disputed poll will be available by the end of January.
The military-backed election commission in Myanmar set Dec. 28 for the initial phase of long-promised elections, the first since the 2021 coup that overthrew the country’s last elected government and kicked off a still-raging civil war.
The military junta that controls Myanmar nominally transferred power to an interim government on Thursday ahead of a planned election in December and January.
A junta jet bombed a rebel-controlled village in western Myanmar on Tuesday, killing more than a dozen civilians, an official from the Arakan Army, or AA, and residents told Radio Free Asia.
Myanmar’s military launched attacks on four villages in northern Myanmar controlled by an insurgent group, according to a statement published by rebels on Friday, despite both armies agreeing to a ceasefire extension only days earlier.
Junta airstrikes on villages in southeast Myanmar destroyed a hospital and forced over 8,000 residents from their homes, leaving them in urgent need of aid, according to an insurgent administration opposing the military.
Myanmar residents forced to flee their homes for camps across the border in Thailand are facing growing hardship amid cuts to international aid, with more than 108,000 people now struggling to access stable food supplies, civil society organizations told Radio Free Asia on Wednesday.
Myanmar’s military junta on Tuesday extended a post-quake ceasefire that critics say exists in name only amid a floundering effort to help disaster victims.
The Independent Myanmar Journalists Association is calling for the release of a reporter who was sentenced to five years in prison under counter-terrorism laws by the junta, the group’s spokesperson said in a statement.