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War-Torn Myanmar To Hold First General Election Since 2021 Coup Amid Ongoing Civil Conflict
Free Press Journal
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August 18, 2025
War-Torn Myanmar To Hold First General Election Since 2021 Coup Amid Ongoing Civil Conflict | X/@velitesgear Myanmar: Myanmar's military government, on Monday, August 18, announced that the country will hold its first general election since the...
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Myanmar: As junta plans election amid civil war, hopes for peace remain dim
Firstpost
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August 18, 2025
On August 12, as the longest civil war in Myanmar will soon complete five years, the UN Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar released a report of ‘serious abuses’ committed during the systematic commission of torture, including sexual...
Myanmar junta sets December 28 poll date despite raging civil war
Digital Journal
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August 18, 2025
Myanmar's junta has touted elections as a way to end the civil war and offered cash rewards to opposition fighters willing to lay down their arms ahead of the vote - Copyright AFP/File STR Myanmar’s junta said Monday that long-promised elections...
Myanmar to hold election from December 28, junta says
South China Morning Post
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August 18, 2025
Myanmar’s ruling military junta said on Monday that the country’s election would start on December 28, beginning a phased poll being boycotted by opposition groups and criticised by international monitors. “The first phase of the multiparty...
Myanmar junta sets Dec 28 poll date despite raging civil war
Channel News Asia
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August 18, 2025
YANGON: Myanmar's junta said on Monday (Aug 18) that long-promised elections will start on Dec 28, despite a raging civil war that has put much of the country out of its control, and international monitors slating the poll as a charade. Myanmar...
Myanmar election to begin December 28: junta
The Hindu
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August 18, 2025
An official shows how to use a voting machine for future elections in Yangon on September 5, 2023. File | Photo Credit: AFP Myanmar’s junta said Monday (August 18, 2025) that long-promised elections will start on December 28, despite a raging...
Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 18, 2025 Morning
MoeMaKa
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August 18, 2025
Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 18, 2025 Morning 🚩🚩 1. Close-range clash in Nyaunglebin leaves 4 junta soldiers dead, including one officer August 17 — Radio NUG A close-range clash broke out with junta forces in Puzun Myaung Model Village,...
World Associated Press Myanmar's election commission sets Dec. 28 to hold long-awaited new elections
Yahoo News
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BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-appointed election commission announced Monday that elections will begin Dec. 28, setting a date for polls that critics have denounced as a sham intended to normalize the army’s 2021 seizure of power even as armed...
War-torn Myanmar to hold first general election since 2021 coup
BBC
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August 18, 2025
Myanmar will begin its general elections on 28 December, its military government announced, in a phased poll widely condemned as a sham that will be used to entrench the junta's power. This will be the first vote since the junta seized power in a...
Under criticism from international monitors: Myanmar junta sets December 28 poll date despite raging civil war
RTL Today
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August 18, 2025
Myanmar's junta said Monday that long-promised elections will start on December 28, despite a raging civil war that has put much of the country out of its control, and international monitors slating the poll as a charade. Myanmar has been consumed...
Indian army searches for missing after deadly Himalayan flood; Torrential rains drench south China; Floods kill 6 in Myanmar border town
TerraDaily
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Indian army searches for missing after deadly Himalayan flood; Torrential rains drench south China; Floods kill 6 in Myanmar border town by AFP Staff Writers New Delhi (AFP) Aug 6, 2025 The Indian army brought in sniffer dogs, drones and heavy...
Myanmar junta sets December 28 poll date despite raging civil war
Yahoo News
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Myanmar's junta said Monday that long-promised elections will start on December 28, despite a raging civil war that has put much of the country out of its control, and international monitors slating the poll as a charade. Myanmar has been consumed...
Immigration detains 37 foreigners in major Johor Baru operation
The Malaysian Star
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August 17, 2025
JOHOR BARU: Thirty-seven foreigners were detained in raids by the state Immigration department for various immigration offences, here. Its director, Datuk Mohd Rusdi Mohd Darus, said Ops Selera and Ops Sapu were conducted around Johor Baru on...
Myanmar army airstrike kills 21 civilians, hurts 7
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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August 17, 2025
BANGKOK -- An airstrike by Myanmar's military on the town of Mogok, the center of the Southeast Asian country's lucrative gem-mining industry, killed at least 21 people including a pregnant woman, an armed opposition group, local residents and...
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 17, 2025 Morning
MoeMaKa
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August 17, 2025
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 17, 2025 Morning 📌📌 1. Meeting Between Sagaing Federal Unit Parliament and Interim Federal Constitution Drafting Groups August 16 Radio NUG According to a statement from the Sagaing Federal Unit Parliament,...
Global Religion in the 21st Century
Utne Reader
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How is religion changing in the twenty-first century? In God in the Tumult of the Global Square(University of California Press, 2015), by Mark Juergensmeyer, Dinah Griego and John Soboslai shows how religion has leapt, in some contradictory ways,...
Myanmar military airstrike on gem-mining town kills at least 21
Los Angeles Times
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August 16, 2025
BANGKOK — An airstrike by Myanmar’s military on the town of Mogok, the center of the Southeast Asian country’s lucrative gem-mining industry, has killed at least 21 people including a pregnant woman, an armed opposition group, residents and...
China wants to create new order in Myanmar. India must switch gears or be dealt out of the game
The Print
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August 17, 2025
Even the ghosts had begun to rebel in those months of horror, it was said. Tossed into the cemetery in Tamwe—a northeastern suburb of Yangon—denied a dignified cremation and Buddhist rites, the souls of young pro-democracy protestors massacred by...
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 16, 2025 Morning
MoeMaKa
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August 16, 2025
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 16, 2025 Morning 📌📌 1. Discussion on Division of Competency and Coordination between the Union Government and Mandalay Region August 15 Radio NUG It has been reported that the Federal Support and Coordination...
Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 16, 2025 Morning
MoeMaKa
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August 16, 2025
Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 16, 2025 Morning 🚩🚩 1. Non-CDM education staff en route to election training in Ye arrested on Thanbyuzayat–Ye highway; made to sign pledge, later released to families August 15 Radio NUG The Mon State Federal...