Bloody Ballot Boxes and an Election Under the Shadow of “Made in China” Network Media Group February 16, 2026 The skies over ...

Fighting between resistance forces and the junta intensified in early February, displacing around 2,000 people from the Hpalu ...

WLB’s ‘Looking back on 2025’ report highlighted the impact of ongoing and worsening armed conflicts, as well as political, economic, and humanitarian crises, on women. According to the report, ...

Some BGF factions had been preparing for years to transform into the KNA, and on January 1 began wearing KNA badges, officially marking the establishment of the new organization. However, not all BGF ...

We made this call because we see the many challenges women face. Women have limited opportunities to take part in leadership and decision-making across administrative, economic, and social sectors,” ...

She was announced as the award winner in a statement on January 29. Padoh Naw Lwe Htoo Say is also the director of the Karen Legal Assistance Center (KLAC) and was elected to the Central Committee at ...

According to the Karen Refugee Committee Education Entity (KRCEE), schools have seen an increase in the number of local students this year. However, there is a lack of support and a need for more ...

Major General Saw Tun Hlaing, BGF’s chairperson asserted that BGF had already notified its decision to cease receiving salaries and benefits from the Military Council since last month, choosing to ...

Colonel Saw Tin Win, the tactical commander of military region No. 2, informed KIC during a meeting in the last week of February, that commanders of the four BGF military regions reached a consensus ...

The groups doing this are the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) Border Guard Force (BGF) under Bo Bi and the junta-aligned Karen (KNU/KNLA) Peace Council (KPC) who previously signed the ...

Following an agreement between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Royal Thai Government, the resettlement program is scheduled to commence. The program aims to resettle ...

I first met cartoonist Harn Lay, 15 years ago in the northern Thai town of Chiang Mai. He was then working for the Irrawaddy magazine. I was impressed by his cartoons that never failed to skewer Burma ...