The regime’s Ministry of Information (MOI) reported on Friday that one Myanmar Air Force defector named Nay Win Aung was among an unknown number of people killed by regime airstrikes carried out on the National Unity Government (NUG) “Special Division Command” on Sept. 24. The People’s Defense Force (PDF) under NUG command, carried out search [...] The post Myanmar Air Force defector among 6 killed in targeted airstrike on NUG regional headquarters appeared first on DVB .
Airstrikes on the camp killed five PDF fighters and a former Air Force Sergeant who joined the CDM, as well as injuring four others including the regional commander
Guest contributor James Shwe Myanmar is one of four countries, alongside Afghanistan, Bolivia and Colombia, that Washington has designated as having “failed demonstrably” to make substantial counternarcotics efforts in its fiscal-year 2027 determination. Yet the same document declares that providing U.S. assistance to Myanmar remains “vital to the national interests of the United States.” That [...] The post Myanmar’s drug crisis and the junta’s bid for Western acceptance appeared first on DVB .
Escalating attacks near the Yangon-Mandalay Expressway have killed seven and forced over 1,000 to flee to nearby towns, while regime troops loot IDP homes
President Donald Trump urged countries to leave the International Criminal Court immediately, calling it “evil” and “a rogue institution,” but only Naoero, a tiny Pacific island nation formerly known as Nauru, has followed suit during the U.N. General Assembly this week. Trump’s appeal on Tuesday capped an escalating U.S. campaign against the Hague-based court, which [...] The post Trump tells countries to quit the International Criminal Court appeared first on DVB .
Nepal’s prime minister scolded fellow world leaders Thursday, saying the nation’s recent deadly flood reminds a warming world that climate change keeps hurting people who didn’t cause the crisis but now need help. The August disaster “was not just a local tragedy. It was a warning to the world. And I ask you today: Have [...] The post Nepal’s climate catastrophe is a warning to the rest of the world, prime minister tells UN appeared first on DVB .
Incessant rain hammered several areas of Thailand’s capital on Saturday, disrupting traffic and forcing thousands to evacuate, as authorities declared the city a disaster area. Thailand’s Meteorological Department warned that the deluge, which has been pouring since Thursday afternoon, would continue in most parts of the country through Sunday. Accumulated rainfall in many areas of [...] The post Heavy rain and flooding in Bangkok disrupts traffic and prompts evacuations appeared first on DVB .
Originally published on ZMINA Nearly one in three people in Myanmar now needs humanitarian aid, five years after the military’s 2021 coup plunged the country into civil war, exposing more than 90 per cent of the population to violence within five kilometres of their homes. More than 100,114 people have been killed since the takeover, [...] The post A Q&A with ACLED’s Myanmar researcher Su Mon appeared first on DVB .
In a stifling sixth grade classroom in war-torn Sudan, a very motivated teacher was giving a lesson to 120 very committed children. Among them: an 18-year-old girl uprooted three years ago by fighting, forced into marriage and motherhood too soon, but determined to finish her education. That wasn’t all, Maysa Jalbout, the director of Education [...] The post From Gaza to Sudan to Nepal, more than 500 million children are in desperate need of education appeared first on DVB .
The U.N. refugee chief urged the world’s divided nations Friday to focus on ending conflicts and crises so the more than 117 million people forced to flee their homes can return, and not spend generations displaced in a foreign country. In his first speech to the U.N. Security Council since his election as high commissioner [...] The post UN refugee chief urges action from Security Council so displacement no longer crosses generations appeared first on DVB .
The military regime in Naypyidaw has recalled its ambassador to Thailand, Zaw Zaw Soe, summoning him back to Myanmar to face interrogation over serious allegations of human trafficking and issuing documentation to political dissidents, according to sources within the regime’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). Zaw Zaw Soe stands accused of colluding with Thai-based Myanmar [...] The post Myanmar regime recalls Ambassador to Thailand from Bangkok to Naypyidaw appeared first on DVB .
Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun told a rally outside the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 19 that conditions remain “favourable” for him to continue serving as Myanmar’s permanent representative to the U.N. for a sixth year. Watch the full report The post Global Solidarity for Myanmar’s UN Ambassador [AUDIO] appeared first on DVB .
