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Myanmar began a second round of voting Sunday in the country's first general election since a takeover that installed a military government five years ago. Voting expanded to additional townships ...
News Myanmar » Mandalay » Government: Myanmar’s military junta is battered by Chinese-backed forces
It has been many decades since war came to Mandalay, the last seat of Burmese kings. But on September 3rd a 107mm rocket cracked the pre-dawn calm, striking a residential area west of the old royal ...
News Myanmar » Mandalay » Government: Myanmar rebels sign ceasefire with military after China-mediated talks
BANGKOK-- A major ethnic rebel group in Myanmar announced Wednesday it signed a cease-fire with the military following China-mediated talks, easing months of intense fighting in the country’s ...
News Myanmar » Mandalay » Government: Myanmar’s Rebel Militias Redeploy Towards Mandalay
Myanmar’s anti-regime forces are being re-deployed to the south, north, and east of Mandalay amid rising expectations of a coming battle with the military aimed at wresting control of the old capital ...
News Myanmar » Mandalay » Government: Insight report: Re-launch of 'Operation 1027' underlines increasing threat of nationwide insurgency to Myanmar government's stability in short term
Across Myanmar, the intensity of the nationwide insurgency escalated between June and August. This included the Brotherhood Alliance relaunching an offensive against the government in June. Jack ...
News Myanmar » Mandalay » Government: Voices are starting to emerge from quake-devastated Myanmar. Here’s what we are hearing
A powerful, deadly earthquake struck at the heart of civil war-ravaged Myanmar on Friday, piling fresh misery on an impoverished nation that was cut off from much of the world even before this natural ...