Passport renewal in Malaysia is convenient and applying for a new passport takes longer

CNI News 5 December 2023 When Myanmar citizens renew their passports, it takes them about three weeks and when they apply for a new passport, it takes them about five months, those helping Myanmar citizens in Malaysia told CNI News. QR code system is...
05 December 2023

Passport holders with no permits arrested in Malaysia

CNI News 10 June 2024 Undocumented foreigners, workers whose jobs are different from those described on their permits and passport holders with no permits in Malaysia were being arrested, Myanmar people who are staying in Malaysia told CNI News. The...
10 June 2024

Paletwa locals desert their town due to difficult livelihood

CNI News 4 December 2024 Although battles between the Arakan Army (AA) and the Myanmar Tatmadaw have suspended in Paletwa, Chin State, Paletwa locals are deserting their town because commodity prices are higher and there are no job opportunities...
04 December 2024

Padoh Saw Shwe Maung says there are attempts to seek peace

monks also had sent the letters of request to Karen armed groups, he said. " We must say they are trying to resolve the problem. Armed conflicts are taking place because they haven't found a right solution. There are attempts to end the war, thinking of...
27 April 2024

Pa-O region becomes stable; IDPs can't go home yet

CNI News 30 April 2024 Although the Pa-O self-administered region has become stable after the battles between the Myanmar Tatmadaw and the revolutionary forces ceased, IDPs have not been able to go back to their native places reportedly. Sesai Town...
30 April 2024

Pa-O groups to demand right to establish new states politically

CNI News 13 December 2024 Political problems will be solved through political means based on federalism that has right to establish new states, said in the joint announcement by the Pa-O National Federal Council (PNFC) and the Pa-O National Liberation...
13 December 2024

Owners of Weint Sein, Aung Thamardi and Zwe Htet gold shops issued arrest warrants

against ten people including owners of Weint Sein, Aung Thamardi and Zwe Htet gold shops for making the price of gold unstable, because they had run away, the SAC issued arrest warrants on them on 2nd June, 2024. A total of 21 suspects who was carrying...
03 June 2024

Overseas employment agencies sending workers to Thailand propose to set service fee in Thai baht

CNI News 8 February 2024 Officials from the Myanmar Overseas Employment Agencies Federation (MOEAF) and leaders of the Thai Business Committee have submitted to the government in order to set the service fee of the overseas employment agencies sending...
08 February 2024

Over one million foreign tourists visit Myanmar in 2023

CNI News December 25 2023 Over one million foreign tourists have entered Myanmar in 2023, U Aung Aye Han, deputy director general of the Ministry of Hotel and Tourism told CNI News. Of more than 200,000 foreign tourists who entered Myanmar in 2022,...
25 December 2023

Over 80,000 Myanmar people arrested in Thailand within one month

of migrant workers told CNI News. The reason why a lot of Myanmar people are entering Thailand through illegal routes was not because Thailand persuaded them or the people did not violate the law but the Myanmar's poor governance has pushed to do so, U...
23 July 2024

Over 600,000 people affected by earthquake in Myanmar

CNI News 29 April 2025 A 7.7-magnitude earthquake and subsequent aftershocks struck Sagaing, near Mandalay, Myanmar, on March 28, affecting 128,965 households and 629,206 people, said Vice Senior General Soe Win, chairman of the National Disaster...
29 April 2025

Over 6 million school enrollments for the 2025-26 academic year

CNI News 4 June 2025 The Department of Basic Education, the Ministry of Education announced on June 3, 2025, that there are over 6 million (6,119,260) students enrolled in basic education schools for the 2025-26 academic year. Enrollment for the...
04 June 2025

Over 300 Myanmar people who do jobs of Thai citizens arrested

CNI News 28 March 2024 Over 300 Myanmar people who did the jobs that Thai citizens only have been allowed to do were arrested during past six months, reported Thai media. Because of of doing the jobs that have been designated for the Thai citizens from...
28 March 2024

Over 20 EV passenger highway cars allowed to be imported

CNI News 30 August 2024 Over 20 EV (electric vehicle) passenger cars have been allowed to be imported, an official from the Ministry of Industry told CNI News. It is reported that at present, three EV passenger cars have reached Myanmar. " Three EV...
30 August 2024

Over 100,000 Myanmar people seek asylum at UNHCR in Malaysia

CNI News 26 May 2024 The number of the people who have registered at the UNHCR as refugees and those who have sought asylum was almost 190,000 and among them, more than 160,000 were the people from Myanmar, the UNHCR in Malaysia stated. The figure was...
26 May 2024

Over 10 lakh tons of sugarcane can be waste if sugar mills don't operate

CNI News 30 November 2024 It has been unclear up to now whether sugar mills in Sagaing Region where the biggest sugarcane cultivation area is located will operate or not, according to farmers. If sugar mills in Sagaing Region didn't operate, sugarcane...
30 November 2024

Opium poppy cultivated again due to armed conflicts

CNI News 30 March 2024 Because of the current armed conflicts, opium poppy has been more cultivated again, which is known from international surveys and seizure of narcotic drugs. In the Southeast Asia Opium Survey, Myanmar is the country which grows...
30 March 2024

Operation of construction industry obviously decreases

CNI News 26 May 2025 In the aftermath of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar, construction businesses are experiencing low activity due to difficulties in purchasing construction materials and other issues, business owners told CNI News....
26 May 2025

Operation 1027 decelerates: Dulei Party chairman

CNI News 27 December, 2023 The Operation 1027 that is being waged by the Three Brotherhood Alliance has decelerated, U Li Paw Reh, chairman of the Lisu National Development Party (Dulei Party), told CNI News. The operation that was launched on 27th...
27 December 2023

Only Myanmar people will decide affairs of Myanmar

CNI News 4 June 2024 It would be only the Myanmar people who would decide the affairs of Myanmar, Dr. Hla Kyaw Zaw, a Myanmar political commentator, told CNI News. Efforts to solve internal affairs from foreign countries were only for their interests...
04 June 2024