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The military’s Union Election Commission has released results confirming the Union Solidarity and Development Party won its elections. As expected, the military proxy USDP dominated all three phases of voting, which began on Dec. 28 and ended on Jan. 25. With the military’s allotted 25 per cent of all seats, this keeps the legislature under tight regime control. Read more . Watch the military prox...

Why a doctor joined Myanmar’s Civil Disobedience Movement after the 2021 military coup. Linn Nizho, a doctor who works on the frontline in Karenni State, joined us in the DVB Newsroom to share her story. Mudra is an OG-GYN clinic at Luke Hospital in Karenni State . *IEC stands for the Karenni State Interim Executive Council, a provisional government established by the resistance in 2023. Watch New...

American journalist Collin Mayfield was embedded for one-and-a-half months with the People’s Defense Force (PDF) Zoland in Tedim Township, northern Chin State, up until he stepped on a landmine on Nov. 18. Mayfield shared his story with DVB from a hospital bed in India's Mizoram State capital Aizawl. Read more . Myanmar has become the world’s deadliest country for landmine and unexploded ordna...

Myanmar's 2025-26 elections, staged by the military, completed the first two rounds of voting in 202 townships on Dec. 28 and Jan. 11. The third and final phase of voting, in what the U.N. calls a "sham" election, will take place on Jan. 25 in 63 more townships (in 265 of Myanmar's 330 total). Without any parties opposing the miltary on the ballot, independent election analysts predict its proxy U...

Myanmar's military regime leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing promised a "free and fair" election during the start of voting in the 2025-26 elections on Dec. 28, but citizens are speaking out about fear, intimidation, and forced voter turnout. As the final two rounds of voting continues on Jan. 11 and Jan. 25, criticism and concerns over how ballot boxes containing advanced votes and ballots cas...

Myanmar's 2025-26 elections, staged by the military, completed the first round of voting in 102 townships on Dec. 28. The second and final phases of voting, in what the U.N. calls a "sham" election, will take place on Jan. 11 and Jan. 25 in 163 other townships (in 265 of Myanmar's 330 total). Independent election observers refused to lend legitimacy to the military's polls, as they expect the mili...

An anonymous voter in Yangon shared this story with DVB about her experience voting in the first phase of Myanmar's 2025-26 "sham" elections. The second and final phases of voting will take place on Jan. 11 and Jan. 25, according to the military regime's Union Election Commission (UEC), which has downplayed complaints from political parties, and independent candidates, stating th...

In 2025, Malaysia dramatically escalated immigration enforcement with Myanmar refugees say ing that uncertainty and fear now dominate their lives. James Bawi Thang Bik, the chairperson of the Alliance for Chin Refugees (ACR), joined us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss the situation faced by refugees and migrants from Myanmar living in Malaysia. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify....

With the 60-day campaign period ending today (Dec. 26) in the regime elections. The Union Election Commission (UEC) announced that polls will take place in 274 out of Myanmar’s 330 townships with voting to take place in three phases: on Dec. 28, Jan. 11, and Jan. 25, 2026. The National League for Democracy (NLD) party, which won landslide victories in the 2015 and 2020 elections deemed free and fa...

With Myanmar's pro-democracy movement not fully behind the National League for Democracy (NLD) government, which was ousted in the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021, nor the group representing lawmakers elected in 2020 but ousted in the coup: The National Unity Government (NUG), the military is holding elections to legitimize its rule once again. Stay tuned to DVB English News for more ⁠ Explainers ⁠....

Natascha Schwanke, the DW Akademie Deputy Head and Director of Media Development, joined us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss DW Akademie's work globally and how it supports Myanmar independent media operating in exile. Disclaimer: DW Akademie also supports DVB. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you g...

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. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, ⁠or wherever you get podcasts⁠ .

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 2026. The law carries a minimum sentence of three years in prison to a maximum sentence of death, if convicted. At least 194 people have been charged under this new law so far. Thirty-two have been arrested and five have been convicted, according...

Jue Jue Min Thu is the founder of Jue Jue's Safe Space, which offers mental health services for Myanmar communities. She joined us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss her work. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts .

Part two of an interview with Myanmar documentary photographer Khin Sandar Nyunt in the DVB Newsroom on her book: “Purple Flowers Will Bloom” which includes photographs taken during her work on the frontline in Myanmar’s Karenni State. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts. Check out our p...

Myanmar documentary photographer Khin Sandar Nyunt joins the DVB Newsroom to discuss her book: “Purple Flowers Will Bloom” which includes photographs taken during her work on the frontline in Myanmar’s Karenni State. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts . Check out our photos from the ⁠bo...

Youth Line podcast host Pyartho brings us a story about three LGBTQ+ teachers who refused to work after the 2021 military coup and joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM). 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 on YouTube Music, Spotify, Apple P...

The mysterious disappearance of Myanmar refugee leader Thuzar Maung and her family from their home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 4, 2023, and their reported re-appearance in detention in Myanmar on Oct. 18, 2025, raises more questions than it answers . DVB is requesting proof of life from the military regime in Naypyidaw, and for Malaysia to share its police investigation into the family's di...

Vicky Bowman, a British former ambassador and the director of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business, speaks to the DVB Newsroom about the business climate in Myanmar since the 2021 military coup and her imprisonment in Yangon in 2022. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts .

Myanmar’s first-ever mixed martial arts (MMA) World Champion Aung La Nsang, known as the “Burmese Python,” won his last-ever bout before retirement from MMA against Swedish fighter Zebaztian “The Bandit” Kadestam at ONE Fight Night 36 held at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, on Oct. 4. Read more about Aung La Nsang's final victory on the DVB English News website . Watch DVB English News on Y...

Former U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar Scot Marciel joins the DVB Newsroom to discuss his four years as America's top diplomat in Yangon and how the relationship between the two countries has changed since the 2021 military coup. Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts .

Myanmar journalist, producer, and presenter at Voice of America (VOA), Ei Thant Sin, sits down with the DVB Newsroom from Washington, D.C. to discuss her work covering her homeland from the U.S. and her new job as a host of the Insight Myanmar Podcast. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, ⁠⁠⁠or wherever you get podca...

Aung San Suu Kyi's son Kim Aris on the power of independent media in Myanmar. "In Burma. Independent media are more than journalists. They are front line defenders of democracy. They are its active force, its lifeline every single day. They risk their lives to report the truth while others remain silent or worse, stand with tyranny. Soldiers risk their lives on the battlefield, but at least they h...

Aung San Suu Kyi's son Kim Aris speaks to DVB Newsroom host Mon Mon Myat about his mother's deteriorating health conditions in prison, where she's been held incommunicado since the Myanmar military coup on Feb. 1, 2021. Read Kim Aris' statement regarding Aung San Suu Kyi's heart condition on DVB English News . Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube...

Yasmin Ullah, the co-founder of the Rohingya Maiyafuinor Collaborative Network, joins us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss her work empowering Rohingya women, and advocating on their behalf, from the refugee camps they've ended up in since fleeing genocide in Myanmar. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, ⁠or wherever yo...