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The regime enacted an Election Protection Law in July to prosecute anyone criticizing its 2025-26 polls, which begin on Dec. 28 and continue into January. The law carries a minimum sentence of three years in prison to a maximum sentence of death #podcast youtu.be/ctmdcBl_lMs
Myanmar's 'Election Protection Law' prosecutes critics of regime-planned polls [AUDIO]
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Kan Kyi, the lead emcee of hip hop collective Triple Edge and organizer of the annual MOB Party in Chiang Mai, joins us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss music, activism, and the crisis in Myanmar since the 2021 military coup. #whatshappeninginmyanmar youtu.be/xZAUAbP6UfM
Kan Kyi: Thailand-Myanmar solidarity through hip hop music
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December 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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The People’s Party Chairperson Ko Ko Gyi told media that the regime’s Union Election Commission disrupted an unveiling ceremony for the party’s election campaign billboard in Yangon’s Lanmadaw Township on Nov. 28 english.dvb.no/peoples-part...
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People’s Party claims Union Election Commission 'disrupted' campaign event in Yangon - DVB
The People’s Party founder and Chairperson Ko Ko Gyi told media that the regime’s Union Election Commission (UEC) disrupted an unveiling ceremony for the party’s election campaign billboard in Yangon’...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Twenty-five Karen civil society groups “overseas,” led by the Karen National Union (KNU), released a statement on Monday that it has condemned the regime’s 2025-26 elections

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Twenty-five Karen groups join Karen National Union in rejecting the regime's 2025-26 elections - DVB
Twenty-five Karen civil society groups “overseas,” led by the Karen National Union (KNU), released a statement on Monday that it has condemned the regime’s 2025-26 elections which are scheduled to beg...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Greta Thunberg delivered the acceptance speech for whistleblower group Justice for Myanmar at the 2025 Right Livelihood Award Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on Tuesday english.dvb.no/greta-thunbe...
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Greta Thunberg shows support for Myanmar at Right Livelihood Award ceremony in Sweden - DVB
Greta Thunberg, a Swedish activist and 2019 Right Livelihood Laureate, delivered the acceptance speech for whistleblower group Justice for Myanmar at the 2025 Right Livelihood Award Ceremony in Stockh...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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A candidate for a political party has been detained by a group opposed to military rule, regime media reported Wednesday. This is the first known detention of an electoral candidate before the regime’s 2025-26 elections english.dvb.no/resistance-f...
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Resistance forces in Myanmar detain a candidate in this month’s election, regime media report- DVB
A candidate for a political party has been detained by a resistance group opposed to military rule, regime media reported on Wednesday. This is the first known detention of an electoral candidate befo...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Opium poppy cultivation in Burma’s Shan State, Sagaing Region, and Chinland has surged to its highest level in a decade, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) stated on Wednesday.
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Police and villagers using sticks and grass cutters to destroy a poppy field above the village of Tar-Pu, Shan State, in January 2012. (Credit: Reuters)
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Residents of Myawaddy Township in Karen State told DVB that regime forces demolished a 15-storey building out of the reported 161 buildings allegedly hosting cyber scam operations at a compound in Shwe Kokko on Wednesday.
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One of the buildings at Shwe Kokko in Myawaddy Township, Karen State, destroyed by explosives on Dec. 3. (Credit: DVB)
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Sources close to the Karen National Union (KNU) told DVB that the regime launched a counteroffensive to recapture Minletpan village in southern Myawaddy Township of Karen State on Wednesday.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Thailand has seized assets worth more than $300 mln, including shares in a major regional energy company, and issued arrest warrants for 42 people in a high-profile push against regional scam networks, officials said on Wednesday english.dvb.no/thailand-sei... #WhatsHappeningInThailand
Thailand seizes $318 million in assets, issues 42 arrest warrants in scams crackdown - DVB
Thailand has seized assets worth more than $300 million, including shares in a major regional energy company, and issued arrest warrants for 42 people in a high-profile push against regional scam netw...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation engaged in a civil war remains one of the world’s primary suppliers of illicit drugs, according to the UN english.dvb.no/myanmar-opiu... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #MilitaryCoupInMyanmar
Myanmar opium cultivation hit highest level in a decade, UN report says - DVB
Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation engaged in a civil war remains one of the world’s primary suppliers of illicit drugs, according to a ...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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At least 20 Myanmar migrant workers were among the 170 people killed during severe flooding in eight of Thailand’s southern provinces in late November, migrant worker groups from Myanmar in Thailand told DVB
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At least 20 Myanmar migrant workers killed during flooding in southern Thailand - DVB
At least 20 Myanmar migrant workers were among the 170 people killed during severe flooding in eight of Thailand’s southern provinces in late November, migrant worker groups from Myanmar in Thailand t...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Opium poppy cultivation in war-torn Myanmar has surged to its highest level in a decade, rising 17 percent in the past year as conflict and economic hardship push more farmers into the illicit trade, the UN said on Wednesday english.dvb.no/myanmars-opi...
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Myanmar's opium poppy cultivation hits highest level in a decade, UN says - DVB
Opium poppy cultivation in war-torn Myanmar has surged to its highest level in a decade, rising 17 percent in the past year as conflict and economic hardship push more farmers into the illicit trade, ...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Sources told DVB that journalists Sithu Aung Myint and Htet Htet Khine, who worked for BBC Media Action, as well as pro-democracy singer Thanthar Win, were released from prison on Sunday.
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Journalist Sithu Aung Myint, who contributed to Frontier Myanmar and Voice of America, before he was arrested in August 2021, at an unknown location on an unspecified date. (Credit: RFA)
December 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Deaths and injuries from landmines and unexploded ordnance hit a four-year high in 2024, driven by conflicts in Syria and Myanmar as well as European countries moving to withdraw from the treaty banning their use.
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Old landmines that Thailand says were detonated and recovered near the disputed border between Thailand and Cambodia are displayed during a media visit organized by the Royal Thai Army, following a ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand, in Surin Province of Thailand, on Aug. 20. (Credit: Reuters)
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Five members of a family, including a two-year-old, were killed and five others were injured by an airstrike on Natmawoo village in Wetlet Township, Sagaing Region, carried out by the Burma Air Force on Tuesday.
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Residents of Wetlet Township, Sagaing Region, inspect the destruction caused to a home after an airstrike that killed five civilians on Dec. 2. (Credit: CJ)
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Sources told DVB that journalists Sithu Aung Myint and Htet Htet Khine, who worked for BBC Media Action, and pro-democracy singer Thanthar Win, were released from prison on Nov. 30.

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Two Myanmar journalists and one pro-democracy activist released in prisoner amnesty - DVB
Sources told DVB that journalists Sithu Aung Myint and Htet Htet Khine, who worked for BBC Media Action, and pro-democracy singer Thanthar Win, were released from prison on Nov. 30 in a regime amnesty...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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The DVB Peacock Film Festival 2025 will return to Chiang Mai University (CMU) Communication Innovation Center Dec. 8-10. Read more english.dvb.no/dvb-peacock-...
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DVB Peacock Film Festival returns to Chiang Mai University in December - DVB
The DVB Peacock Film Festival 2025 will return to Chiang Mai University (CMU) Communication Innovation Center Dec. 8-10. Since 2023, DVB documentaries have been screened at CMU, in northern Thailand, ...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Members of the Muslim community in Mandalay Region told said the regime continues to deny them permits to reconstruct mosques damaged or destroyed over eight months after the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar on March 28.
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The Sekkyar (North) Mosque in Chanayethazan Township, Mandalay Region, was damaged by the earthquake on March 28. (Credit: Residents)
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Residents of Maubin Township in Ayeyarwady Region told DVB that four convicted of violating Section 505-A of the Penal Code, and three others detained on the same charge, were the only political prisoners released from Maubin Prison on Friday.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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A total of 1,954 undocumented foreign nationals have been detained at cyber scam centers in Myawaddy Township’s Shwe Kokko and KK Park, in Karen State, in ongoing operations since Nov. 18.
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Shwe Kokko’s casino, entertainment and tourism complex in Myawaddy Township, Karen State, after Thailand cut electricity, internet and fuel supplies to five border areas in Burma in an effort to curb scam centers on Feb. 19. (Credit: Reuters)
December 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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"For nearly five years — since the military seized power on February 1, 2021 — she has been held in total isolation. No lawyers. No independent doctors. No diplomats. No family," writes Alan Clements english.dvb.no/is-aung-san-...
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Is Aung San Suu Kyi alive? The world can no longer pretend not to know - DVB
Guest contributor Alan Clements There are moments when the fate of a single human being reveals the moral condition of the world. Myanmar has reached that moment — and so have we. Aung San Suu Kyi, No...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Myanmar recorded the highest number with over 2,000 incidents due to increased use by both the army and non-state armed groups, the report said.

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Landmine casualties hit four-year high as states exit ban treaty - DVB
Deaths and injuries from landmines and unexploded ordnance hit a four-year high in 2024, driven by conflicts in Syria and Myanmar as well as European countries moving to withdraw from the treaty banni...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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"As a political ethnographer who has spent nearly two decades working with communities forcibly displaced by Burma’s wars... I can unequivocally say: this determination does not reflect realities on the ground," writes Tani Sebro
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The US cannot claim that returning to Myanmar is 'safe' - DVB
Guest contributor Tani Sebro On November 25, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the administration’s intention to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Burma, citing th...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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The Kachin Independence Army told DVB that fighting with regime forces broke out along the Mogok-Momeik Road, between Mogok Township in Mandalay Region and Momeik Township in northern Shan State, on Sunday english.dvb.no/fighting-rep...
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Fighting reported on Mogok–Momeik Road between Kachin Independence Army and military - DVB
The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) told DVB that fighting broke out with regime forces at an unspecified location along the Mogok-Momeik Road, somewhere between Mogok Township in Mandalay Region and M...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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The U.N. human rights office voiced concern on Friday that the regime was pressuring people into voting in the elections this month and that electronic voting machines and AI surveillance could help authorities to identify and arrest opponents.
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The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw building, which is the seat of the Parliament in Naypyidaw, on Aug. 12, 2011. (Credit: Reuters)
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM