News Myanmar: Forced recruitment underway in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region
Junta authorities in southwestern Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region are compiling lists of draft-eligible residents amid a roll-out of the country’s conscription law, sources told RFA Burmese. On Feb. 10, ...
News Myanmar: Digital Currency: Beacon of Hope in Fight Against Myanmar Junta
"Digital currencies have played a pivotal role in backing Myanmar's Spring Revolution," following a military takeover of the government in February 2021, said NUG Deputy Minister of Planning, Finance ...
News Myanmar: Former Myanmar American Chamber of Commerce board member detained in Spain
A former Myanmar American Chamber of Commerce board member has been detained in Spain over alleged financial impropriety in a case he and others say was fabricated. Munimul Islam, CEO of Misfit...
News Myanmar: Australian executive in Myanmar linked to alleged financial misconduct freed from jail
The police complaint did not specify Ye Khaung Kyaw’s exact role in the alleged misconduct during his tenure as executive director.
News Myanmar: Real estate prices skyrocket as Yangon swells with Myanmar’s displaced
Myanmar’s civil war is driving up housing demand in Yangon, causing rents to skyrocket as people displaced by conflict in remote border regions seek out the relative safety of the country’s largest ...
News Myanmar: Myanmar car market sees price increases amid rising demand
YANGON: Car prices in Myanmar have increased by 10 to 20 per cent amid rising demand in the domestic automobile market, the state-owned daily The Global New Light of Myanmar reported Monday (Sept 28).
News Myanmar: Myanmar Prefabricated Construction Market to Grow 10.2% in 2026, Reaching MMK 228.6 Billion
Myanmar’s prefabricated construction sector is expanding steadily, creating opportunities across modular methods, diverse materials, and residential, commercial and industrial projects.Dublin, Sept. 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- "Myanmar Prefabricated Construction Market Intelligence and Future Growth Dynamics Databook - 100+ KPIs, Market Size & Forecast by End Markets, Precast Products, and Precast Materials - Q2 2026 Update" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Myanmar Prefabric
News Myanmar: Ethereum turns 10: From scrappy experiment to Wall Street’s invisible backbone
Ten years after launch, Ethereum has evolved from a scrappy experiment to the hidden infrastructure powering Wall Street’s next generation of finance. Major institutions from BlackRock to Robinhood ...
News Myanmar: Is Myanmar’s Kachin Conflict Really Over?
The visit on Wednesday by the United Nations’ special envoy to Myanmar, Vijay Nambiar, to Laiza, the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Organization, is a positive sign that the conflict in Kachin state might really be over. [Asia Times has a fine summary of Nambiar’s visit.] The peace deal between the KIO and the Myanmar […]
News Myanmar: Show proof Myanmar nationals a ‘financial burden’, home ministry told
Former MP Charles Santiago also asks if the community is more of a 'security threat' than undocumented migrant workers.
News Myanmar: A New Myanmar Needs a New (Crypto) Currency
Early efforts by Myanmar’s opposition National Unity Government (NUG) to issue a U.S. dollar-backed cryptocurrency have failed. They should try again, and harder: economic independence would further ...
News Myanmar: Myanmar households crippled as currency tumbles to record low
The Myanmar kyat has been extremely volatile in recent days, plunging to a low of 7,500 to the dollar in the black market last week from 5,000 earlier in the month, according to four foreign exchange traders. The plunge followed reports that the Myanmar junta was printing more kyat to prop up the currency, two traders said. "People are frantically buying (Thai) baht and selling kyat," said a money transfer agent in neighbouring Thailand who asked not to be named.
News Myanmar: Junta forces Rohingyas to protest ethnic rebels in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
Junta authorities in western Myanmar forced hundreds of Rohingya Muslims to protest an ethnic rebel offensive that has the military on the ropes in Rakhine state – and fining them if they didn’t ...
News Myanmar: Why Rakhine State Could Become Myanmar’s First Truly Autonomous Region
Relatively free from foreign influence, the Arakan Army is poised to carve out a large autonomous statelet in western Myanmar. Soldiers from the Arakan Army pose inside the Maung Shwe Lay Navy Base in ...
News Myanmar: Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state could face an imminent acute famine, UN report warns
The U.N. Development Programs is warning that Myanmar’s Rakhine state, home to the Rohingya minority and engulfed in conflict between government forces and a powerful ethnic group, could face an imminent acute famine.
News Myanmar: Myanmar military torches nearly 200 homes in Sagaing region
Read RFA coverage of these topics in Burmese. Myanmar junta forces torched nearly 200 homes in the northwestern region of Sagaing, the latest incident in a campaign to punish communities that support ...
News Myanmar: Binance Airdrops $1.5M in Crypto to Quake-Hit Thailand and Myanmar
Binance Charity Airdrops $1.5M in Crypto to Quake Zones in Thailand, Myanmar Crypto exchange Binance announced on March 31 that its philanthropic arm, Binance Charity, and co-founder Changpeng Zhao ...
News Myanmar: SAMARITAN'S PURSE BEGINS LIFE-SAVING SURGICAL CARE IN MYANMAR EARTHQUAKE ZONE
Today, Samaritan's Purse began surgical operations at an existing temporary medical unit in Naypyidaw, the capital city of Myanmar, located in the Mandalay region. A team of doctors and nurses are providing life-saving care at the unit while the organization's disaster response specialists finish setting up a full-scale Emergency Field Hospital. The 60-bed hospital will be equipped with an emergency room, laboratory, pharmacy, critical care unit, and two operating rooms where dozens of surgeries
