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Thailand's new "Education for All" policy allows migrant and undocumented children from Myanmar to attend government schools. UNICEF Thailand has reported that migrant and stateless children are guaranteed 15 years of free education. Yet many remain out of school. The gap, education groups say, is not in the policy. It is in enrolment. They say better coordination between migrant lea...

At first glance, Myanmar’s 2026 matriculation exam results seem like a rare piece of good news. The nationwide pass rate climbed to 52.37%, with over 130,000 students successfully graduating. But behind the passing grades lies a devastating reality of the ongoing conflict. In this story, we look beyond the percentages to uncover the true cost of Myanmar’s post-coup conflict on education. Prior to...

Myanmar artist and activist Sai Redacted joins us in the DVB Newsroom after receiving the Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway. Read his bio . Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts. ⁠⁠ Stay up-to-date with the latest on #WhatsHappeningIn...

The U.N. Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar, Julie Bishop, addressed the General Assembly on June 19. The speech coincided with the 81st birthday of jailed State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, who’s been held in detention since the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021. Bishop raised Aung San Suu Kyi’s isolation with regime leader Min Aung Hlaing during her last visit to Myanmar in May. The o...

Myanmar migrants and pro-democracy exile groups across Thailand launched a coordinated mass mobilization today to mark the 81st birthday of jailed State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. Read more on DVB English News Stay up-to-date with the latest on #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar by subscribing to the ⁠⁠⁠Daily Briefing newsletter⁠⁠⁠ .⁠⁠⁠ Find DVB English News on X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, Blu...

A high-level delegation representing Myanmar’s anti-coup resistance concluded a major cross-country diplomatic tour in Canada, seeking to solidify international support and officially introduce a newly forged political and military alliance. Led by National Unity Government (NUG) Foreign Minister Zin Mar Aung, the delegation arrived in the capital, Ottawa, on June 6 following earlier stops in Toro...

Award-winning investigative journalist Thin Lei Win spoke at the Oslo Freedom Forum on June 1. This is her talk, shared with the permission of organizers. Thin Lei Win is urging the international community not to look away from Myanmar, warning that the country’s deepening humanitarian crisis and the war against independent media since the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021, serves as a dark harbinger...

Award-winning investigative journalist Thin Lei Win is urging the international community not to look away from Myanmar, warning that the country’s deepening humanitarian crisis and the war against independent media since the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021, serves as a dark harbinger for global democratic backsliding. Read more on DVB English News . Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spo...

Prominent Myanmar pro-democracy leader Min Ko Naing was named the recipient of the 17th Citizen of Burma Award during a ceremony held at the Chiang Mai University Convention Center in Thailand on May 24. Read more on DVB English News . Stay up-to-date with the latest on #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar by subscribing to the ⁠⁠Daily Briefing newsletter⁠⁠ .⁠⁠⁠ Find DVB English News on X, Facebook, Instagram...

This week, we share episodes 5-6 from season 2 of the Transnational Institute (TNI) series of interviews with author and journalist Martin Smith, who's work includes the book Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity and the documentary  Dying for Democracy . Smith is the co-founder of the Prospect Burma educational trust, a former independent expert member of the Three Diseases Fund boa...

Sean Turnell, an Australian economist, former political prisoner, and economic policy advisor to Myanmar's ousted democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi, joins us in the DVB Newsroom. Turnell discusses the recent secretive transfer of 80-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi from Naypyidaw Prison to an undisclosed house arrest location. As one of the only people outside the prison to have seen her alive, he s...

The Philippines called on Myanmar to allow the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) special envoy ​to meet with detained leader Aung San Suu ‌Kyi, pressing for greater transparency after the regime in Naypyidaw signalled it would let her to serve the remainder of her 18-year sentence under house arrest. Speakers: Fergus Harlow, activist UseYourFreedom.org. Sean Turnell, former economic...

Jared Bissinger, a development economist and visiting fellow with the Myanmar Studies Programme at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, joins us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss how the global energy crisis is impacting Myanmar. Read more on DVB English News . Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or ⁠⁠wherever you get po...

Five years after the military coup, Myanmar’s resistance is taking its fight to the global stage. Following the creation of the Steering Committee for the Emergence of a Federal Democratic Union (SCEF)—a powerful new alliance between the National Unity Government (NUG) and major ethnic armed organizations—resistance leaders have launched a highly coordinated diplomatic offensive. In this video, we...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has affirmed that Min Aung Hlaing’s recent maneuver to shed his military uniform and assume the civilian title of Myanmar’s president will not provide him legal protection against a pending international arrest warrant for crimes against humanity. Read more on DVB English News . Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts,...

Myanmar’s junta leader Min Aung Hlaing was inaugurated as president on April 10 after shedding his military uniform and handing control of the military to a hand-picked successor following a highly criticized 2025-2026 election. In this video we explain the strategy behind Min Aung Hlaing's transition from military leader to "civilian" president five years after leading the coup that...

Aung Ko Ko, a peace building scholar-practitioner and the executive director of Mosaic Myanmar, joins us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss minority rights, inclusion, and social cohesion in the context of conflict and political transition. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts . Stay up-to-da...

After seven years of construction delays, a pandemic, and a military coup, the $188 million Yangon-Dala Bridge finally opened on Feb. 6. Known officially as the Myanmar-Korea Friendship Bridge, the country's longest cable-stayed bridge connects the commercial capital Yangon to one of the region's poorest townships. Read more and see our photos . Stay up-to-date with the latest on #WhatsHap...

Myanmar’s rivers are at risk of damming and mining activities, which has caused contamination and a threat to the livelihoods of riverine communities. Environmental activist Paul Sein Twa is the co-founder of the Karen Environmental Social Action Network (KESAN). He joins us in the DVB Newsroom to explain the work being done to protect Myanmar's rivers. Read our story and check out our photos from...

Independent election analyst Htin Kyaw Aye joins us in the DVB Newsroom to explain the results of Myanmar’s military-run elections, held from Dec. 28 to Jan. 25. As expected, the military-proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) won a landslide victory and will lead the next administration in the capital Naypyidaw with no opposition parties in Myanmar's parliament. Watch Newsroom on...

A new law may enable Senior General Min Aung Hlaing to retain full control over the Myanmar military while becoming president - five years after he led a military coup ousting Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) government. The 2008 Constitution outlines two separate roles for president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. It was even written by the military to ensure it...

Youth Line podcast host Pyartho brings us a story from Myanmar about a mother, wife, and assistant lecturer, who joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) in response to the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021. Stay tuned to Youth Line podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ . Find DVB English News on X, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads & TikTok, Subscribe on YouTube. Follow us o...

Legal proceedings have been filed with a judiciary in Timor-Leste against Myanmar’s military under the principle of universal jurisdiction. Chin Human Rights Organization Executive Director Salai Za Uk Ling joins us in the Newsroom to explain the "irrefutable evidence" of war crimes and crimes against humanity that his team has collected after attacks carried out by the Myanmar military...

During the Myanmar military coup on Feb. 1, 2021, a non-violent resistance movement was born. The Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) has been resisting the return to military rule in Myanmar over the last five years. Understand the story of the CDM and its members, who've sacrificed their lives, careers and families to pressure the military to return power to the people of Myanmar. Stay up-to-d...

A US federal judge paused the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nearly 4,000 people from Myanmar who couldn’t return home after the 2021 military coup. TPS is a humanitarian program that allows foreign nationals from designated countries experiencing armed conflict, natural disasters, or other extraordinary crises to remain and work legally in the US. Simon Billeness is the execu...