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The International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action is April 4. To discuss how Myanmar became the world's deadliest country for landmines, Yeshua Moser- Puangsuwan, the author of the Landmine Monitor report on Myanmar, joined us in the DVB Newsroom. Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube, Spotify, or Patreon. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon M...

DVB English News shares the latest facts and figures from on-the-ground in central Myanmar, where a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck on March 28. Almost one week later, and the search and rescue operations switch to relief and recovery efforts. For the latest updates on the Myanmar earthquake, follow our live coverage . Find DVB English News on X, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads & TikTok,...

Resistance forces have reported that the regime in Naypyidaw is increasing its use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, on the battlefield. The Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) have confirmed that regime forces are using "suicide" drones, which detonate upon impact. Stay tuned to DVB English News for more ⁠Newscasts⁠ . We're availab...

Maung Zarni, a genocide scholar from Myanmar and the co-founder of Free Rohingya Coalition, joined us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss human rights, social justice, and genocide in Myanmar, Syria, and Israel/Palestine. Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts .

Martin Smith, an independent author, researcher and historian on Myanmar joins us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss his latest work " The Conflict Trap ," a new podcast series produced by the Transnational Institute (TNI). Smith is the author of the quintessential book on Myanmar "Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity." Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or S...

This week we lend our feed to Myanmar's Resilient Voices season 7 episode 3 Resisting Harmful Narratives: The Power of Film in the LGBTQIA+ Struggle. In this episode, a filmmaker reflects on the traumatic impact of derogatory portrayals of the LGBTQIA+ community in Myanmar’s media. Drawing from personal experiences, the speaker delves into how toxic narratives perpetuate emotional violence, societ...

Ma Nandar is a theatre director, writer, poet, translator, host of the G-Taw Zagar Wyne podcast, and founder of the Purple Feminists Group. She joined us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss how the patriarchy in Myanmar sustains military dictatorship and how women have led the pro-democracy struggle against it, and and the 2021 coup. Read: The Failing Feminist: A speech and poem by Ma Nandar . Watch DV...

Chris Gunness, the founder and director of the Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP), joined DVB English News in the newsroom to discuss international justice for the Myanmar people and how MAP is using the legal principle of universal jurisdiction to pursue accountability for the crimes committed by the Myanmar military in courts around the world This interview was recorded before a court in Argen...

This is part two of the DVB Newsroom interview with David Mathieson, an independent analyst on human rights and conflict in Myanmar. In it, he discusses the situation in Myanmar four years after the 2021 military coup. We recorded this interview before China brokered a ceasefire agreement between the regime in Naypyidaw and the Three Brotherhood Alliance’s Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army...

DVB Newscast for Feb. 7, 2025. Over the past 12 months, Myanmar's resistance forces have made territorial gains nationwide. The military regime in Naypyidaw, which seized power after the 2021 coup, now has less than 25 percent of the country under its control, according to a recent BBC investigation. The National Unity Government (NUG) claims the resistance controls 144 out of Myanmar’s 330 townsh...

David Mathieson, an independent analyst on human rights and conflict in Myanmar, joined the DVB Newsroom to discuss the situation in Myanmar four years after the 2021 military coup. This interview was recorded before China brokered a ceasefire agreement between the regime in Naypyidaw and the Three Brotherhood Alliance's Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) on Jan. 18. The National Un...

Ma Thida is a Burmese medical doctor, writer, human rights activist and former prisoner of conscience. She founded and served until 2016 as president of PEN Myanmar, whose mission includes monitoring issues related to freedom of expression, organizing discussions about literature with the public, developing a culture of literature in Myanmar, promoting creative writing, and making literature a par...

Moon Nay Li, the joint general secretary at the Women’s League of Burma (WLB) and the former general secretary at the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT), joined us in the DVB Newsroom to share her more than 18 years of work committed to advancing human rights and women's participation in Myanmar. Watch Newsroom on YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Audible, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or YouTu...

American pro-democracy activist Michael Sladnick joins us in the DVB Newsroom to share his journey about how he first learned about Myanmar after the 2021 military coup, then learned to speak Burmese and moved to the Thailand-Myanmar border to provide assistance to the anti-coup resistance. Watch Newsroom on YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Audible, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or YouTube Music ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

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Jason Tower is the country director for the Burma program at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). He joins us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss the rise of cyber scams in Myanmar and what USIP has done to document it and raise awareness about the global threats it creates. Watch Newsroom on YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Audible, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or YouTube Music ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

This episode of Insight Myanmar Podcast is appearing in the DVB English News feed this week since it features an interview with DVB Chief Editor Aye Chan Naing. It has been edited for brevity. Episode #284: Aye Chan Naing is a pioneering journalist and activist dedicated to independent media in Myanmar. He co-founded the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) in the years following the military’s violent...

As Myanmar awaits an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Min Aung Hlaing, which was filed by ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan on Nov. 27 , regional human rights organization Fortify Rights has been meeting with countries - those which have signed the Rome Statute to establish the ICC - to hold Myanmar accountable for crimes, including those committed since the 2021 military coup....

The International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan sat down for an exclusive interview with DVB Chief Editor Aye Chan Naing on Dec. 9 to discuss why he requested an arrest warrant for Min Aung Hlaing, who is alleged to have committed crimes against humanity for the Myanmar military’s role in the forced displacement of Rohingya from northern Arakan State into Bangladesh in 2016-17....

Noor Azizah is the co-founder of the Rohingya Maiyafuinor Collaborative Network, a Rohingya women and refugee-led organization working on human rights and education with a focus on women, peace, and security. Read her latest op-ed for DVB English News. Watch Newsroom on YouTube & Spotify. Listen on Audible, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, or wherever you get podcasts.

Ashley South, the author of Conflict, Complexity and Climate Change: Emergent federal systems and resilience in post-coup Myanmar, returned to the DVB newsroom to discuss the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan Nov. 11-22. He shared how nation states are beginning to take climate adaptation and mitigation seriously, except for Myanmar, which is one of the world’s most vulnerable...

A new cyber safety campaign called Stop Online Harm was launched in Myanmar. Its program lead Hetty joined the DVB Newsroom to discuss how it shares resources and technology tools, builds capacity, raises awareness, develops strategies, and advocates for change from global technology platforms and governments. Read more here . Listen to Newsroom on Spotify, Audible, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or...

DVB English News Weekly Briefing for Nov. 15, 2024. In this week’s news: Resistance drone strike on military airbase in Mandalay Region; Regime leader Min Aung Hlaing visits drone manufacturing facility during China visit; Naypyidaw attempts to stop currency depreciation; Myanmar citizens renew passports with National Unity Government (NUG) representative office in South Korea; Cyber scams increas...

DVB English News Weekly Briefing for Nov. 8, 2024. In this week’s briefing: Min Aung Hlaing visits China for first time since 2021 military coup; Military personnel defect to Kachin Independence Army; Bangladesh wants to fast-track Rohingya refugee resettlement; Wa State using Thai banks to launder money; Plus, What’s Happening in Myanmar’s Pa-O Self-Administered Zone of southern Shan State. Subsc...

DVB English News Weekly Briefing for Nov. 1, 2024. In this week’s briefing: UN states that ‘brutality’ of crimes in Myanmar is increasing; Special Envoy on Myanmar visits Naypyidaw; Economist expects more inflation due to China border closures; One year on since the launch of Operation 1027; Plus, the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) on international advocacy. Subscribe to our Daily Br...