The Dirty Secrets behind Myanmar's Rare-earths Boom

           (Mathis Richtmann’s post from the DW GERMANY on 24 May 2025.)

Myanmar is caught in a scramble for minerals. Their exploitation is causing deaths and environmental harm in the country's Kachin State, activists tell DW. Rare-earth mining has exploded in Myanmar's Kachin region, making it the world's largest source of supply.

Lahtaw Kai draws an imaginary mountain into the air with her hands and uses her fingers to dot it with holes. "At the top of the mountains, they drill holes and then pour chemicals like ammonium nitrate into the ground to extract the rare earth minerals at the bottom," the Myanmar environment activist told DW.

Lahtaw Kai — whose name we've changed for security reasons — was illustrating the so-called in-situ leaching technique, which has been applied for decades in mining rare earths in Myanmar's northern Kachin state.

WW3: Pakis’ll Nuke Israel if Jews Nuke Islamist Iran?

           (Based on the current news of the rapidly escalating Iran-Israel war.)

As our world is dangerously overpopulated, another world war is imminent as the world wars are the nature’s way of controlling human population. Humans have no predators and only way to cut the population is to kill each other large scale.

And right now, human population is well beyond eight billion and about thirty percent of that are Muslims the suicidal maniacs, and they have been growing at the rate of twenty percent between 2010 and 2020, growing at twice the rate of the overall world population. And they have nukes to destroy the rest and themselves.

Pakistan has a massive stockpile of nukes and Islamist Iran has been trying to have some to kill the nuke-armed Israelis. That is the main reason Israel now is attacking Iran with an undeclared war. Now the conventional war between Iran and Israel is reaching new heights. Israel has threatened Iran with her nukes and Pakistan reportedly backed Iran with a threat that they will nuke Israel if Jews nuke Muslim Iran.

UWSA: China’s Proxy Army in Myanmar’s Shan State

     (Pracha Burapavithi’s post from THE NATION THAILAND on 27 May 2025.)

"Red Wa": China’s shadow army controlling Shan State power: The Wa ethnic group rose to control northern and southern Shan State as the dominant northern ethnic army, safeguarding China’s interests in Myanmar.

Thai civil society groups are demanding action against the Red Wa—for involvement in drug trafficking and mining operations. They trace the root causes to China, a major patron, but so far, there has been no official response from the Thai government.

Following the flash floods in Mae Sai, NGOs have raised alarms over toxic contamination in the Sai and Kok rivers, urging the government to intensify negotiations to pressure Myanmar authorities and the Red Wa forces to shut down mining activities.

Bromance Is Over: Fued between Trump and Musk

          (Batya Ungar-Sargon’s post from the FREE PRESS on 06 June 2025.)

The Elon-Trump Bromance Crashes and Burns: A series of conflicts of interest cut to the core of the delicate tech bro-MAGA alliance. Elon Musk is First Buddy no longer. The epic bromance between Musk and President Donald Trump, between the richest man on the planet and the most powerful one, has come to an end, not with a bang but with a tweet: 

Just days after Trump granted Musk a golden key in an Oval Office send-off from his role as head of DOGE and adviser to the White House, Musk unleashed on the president’s Big Beautiful Bill: “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” he wrote on his social media platform, X. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”

On Thursday, Musk amplified his attacks, directing them at the President, saying Trump would have lost the election without him. “Such ingratitude,” Musk said. President Trump retorted that he was "very disappointed with Elon."

Dictator and His Pet Buddhist Monk (Wa-zi-pait)

Many wise men all over the world have stated that Buddhism is not a real religion like other mainstream religions such as Christian, Judaism, and Islam. They even added that pure Buddhism is more like a well-known philosophy of Lord Buddha.

I was a born-Communist since my late parents were hard-core Commies, and while I was growing up in Burma with my mothers’ devout Buddhist family, while my late parents were fighting in the jungles, I sort of became a Buddhist. Then later I learned that Burmese Buddhism is not really a pure-Buddhism at all, for historically Burmese were a seriously backward Pagan-Tribe thousands of years ago.

Burmese became Buddhists reluctantly in AD 1060 when our famous king Anaw-ra-htar forcefully converted the whole populace to Buddhism for some unexplained reasons. The conversion wasn’t too successful, and Burmese populace ended up with too many leftover practices from their old paganism.

China Calls the Shots in Myanmar’s Civil War

      (Staff post from the ECONOMIST MAGAZINE on 30 May 2025.)

IN LATE FEBRUARY a plane carrying 25 Chinese mercenaries landed on Ramree Island, off the coast of Myanmar. Their arrival, at an airfield in the midst of a chaotic battle, is a sign of China’s growing influence throughout the country.

Since a coup d’état four years ago brought a military junta to power in Myanmar, China has become the most important actor in its southern neighbour’s affairs. Western countries have mostly looked away as Myanmar’s struggle for democracy has turned chaotic and violent.

China has filled the resulting vacuum, working with both the junta and a vast array of armed rebel groups to advance its own agenda. China’s interests in Myanmar are varied. They include stability along the 2,100km (1,300-mile) border and the suppression of Western influence.

Battle Raging at Crucial Town Kyaukphyu in Arakan

      (Staff posts from THE KHIT THIT MEDIA and REUTERS on 31 May 2025.)

The amazingly victorious Arakan Army (AA) declared yesterday that they have captured a group of Myanmar Army soldiers led by Lt. Colonel Kyaw Lin Kyaing the Divisional Tactical Commander, near Kyaukphyu.

Because of many rapidly losing battles on multiple war fronts, Myanmar Army is losing so many field commanders they are being forced to send out senior division and brigade commanders to lead the war columns to face the rebelling ethnic armies. And one rebel army like AA has been quickly capturing those senior commanders of Myanmar Army, one after another.

Especially in the besieged town of Kyaukphyu, the demoralized army troops are surrendering and running away from the battle fields. Even in the Chinese projects the Chinese employees are being evacuated speedily to relatively safer Rangoon by private airplanes as their safety at Kyaukphyu is not guaranteed by Myanmar Army or AA.

US-China Proxy Drone War in Kyaukphyu of Myanmar?

             (Based partly on staff post from the NARINJARA NEWS on 27 May 2025.)

China is protecting her trillion dollars interest (China’s Indian Ocean Gateway) by fighting together with Myanmar Army defending (but rapidly losing) the Kyaukphyu Town.

Kyaukphyu is the most crucial town for China’s security and economic interest in Myanmar as being the terminus for Trans-Myanmar Crudeoil and Gas Pipelines and also the terminus for future Kunming-Kyaukphyu Railway. Kyaukphyu also has the China-controlled deep seaport allowing enormous crude-oil-tankers to unload and then piped to Kunming.

As AA occupied 14 townships out of all 17 townships in Arakan, China has started sending PLA armed units disguised as mercenaries or private security personnel since February this year after the AA (Arakan Army) started their operation against Kyaukphyu in January this year.

On February-27 a small PLA armed unit of about fifty (mainly snipers) from PLA Southern Division based in Yunan Province was airlifted to Kyaukphyu as AA intensified the offensive on Kyaukphyu. A PLA drone unit of about twenty also arrived at Kyaukphyu.

US-China Tug of War Over Myanmar’s Yakhine State?

             (Fahd Bin Zahed’s post from the JAKARTA POST on 21 May 2025.)

Will US-China tug of war ensue over Rakhine State? Growing US interest in Myanmar’s Rakhine State could prompt China to ramp up its backing for the military junta in Naypidaw.

In mid-April, the arrival in Dhaka of three United States State Department officials, two deputy assistant secretaries and the charge d’affaires in Naypidaw, signaled the first signs of a critical engagement between US officialdom and the Muhmmad Yunus’s interim government since it took charge in August 2024.

Following the August 2024 political transition, Bangladesh’s interim government, led by Yunus appears to have adopted a new geopolitical orientation, seemingly opening the country to Western interests, both political and economic.

Ukraine’s FPV Drones Flying in Burma?

                       (Staff post from the YAHOO MEDIA on 24 May 2025.)

Russian Mi-17 chopper Appears To Have Been Downed By FPV Drone In Myanmar: Myanmar rebels claim they shot down a government Mi-17 helicopter with an FPV drone. A tactic developed by Ukraine to attack helicopters with small drones has apparently found its way to the jungles of the war-torn nation of Myanmar.

Rebels fighting Myanmar’s junta say they used a first-person view (FPV) drone to down an Mi-17 Hip transport helicopter attempting to land with supplies. The government, however, claims the helicopter crashed due to mechanical failure. Regardless, the claimed attack is nothing out of the realm of possibility.

There are rapidly evolving threats to helicopters in combat zones, including from lower-end drones, raising concerns about degradation in their utility on future battlefields. Video emerged on social media showing the video feed of what purports to be an FPV drone operated by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) careening toward the helicopter, which was hovering just a few feet off the ground at the time.

Myanmar Army Major-General Assassinated in Yangon!

             (Ko Cho’s post from THE MYANMAR NOW MEDIA on 22 May 2025.)

On May-22 Thursday, the Retired Major-General Cho Htun Aung, a former ambassador and the current professor at the National Defense College – NDC, was shot to death right in front of his residence in Yangon by two masked-gunmen from the Golden Valley Warriors from the NUG’s PDF.

Former Myanmar Ambassador to Cambodia and Brunei was shot while he was picking up fallen Mangoes in his front yard and died inside the ambulance on the way to Base Military Hospital (BMH) in Mingaladon. His house is at Shwe-hnin-zee-6 Street of Fifth Ward in Mayangone Township, Yangon.

He graduated from the Fifth Cadet Batch of OTS (Officer Training School) in Hmawbi and served in Myanmar Army for over 30 years. He was the Divisional Commander of Yay-based MOC-19 (Military Operations Command-19) and also served as the ruthless Chairman of Karen State Peace and Development Council during the era of Than-Shwe-Led SPDC (State Peace and Developmnet Council) in the years 1990s and 2000s.

Mi17 Down: KIA .50 Guns Roasted Russian Bird Alive

               (Staff post from the KHIT THIT MEDIA on 20 May 2025.)

Kachin Independence Army (KIA) successfully shot down a Myanmar Air Force Mi17 transport helicopter in their Kachin State. According to the KIA spokesperson Colonel Naw Boo, three Mi17 helicopters were on their way to reinforce the besieged town Bamaw on the eastern bank of Irrawaddy River in Kachin State.

KIA’s 50 cal Machine Gunners shot down two out of three Mi17 choppers but only one crashed into the KIA Fifth Brigade area near the town of Shwe-Gu on the west bank of Irrawaddy River. Other one crash landed at Shwe-Gu town.

The Mi17s were sending Myanmar Army soldiers and supplies to the Bamaw-based 21^st Military Operations Command (MOC-21). The crashed Mi17 was piloted by Myanmar Air Force Captain Myo Htet Aung who was killed along with a Myanmar Army Tactical Commander and all his soldiers onboard.

Myanmar Air Force: Min Aung Hlaing’s Killing Machines

            (Swe Taw’s post from the IRRAWADDY MEDIA on 13 May 2025.)

How Myanmar Junta Uses Air Force to Fight Its Corner: The military junta, which loves to portray itself as the “Standard Army,” has gradually struggled to curb the People’s Defence Forces (PDF) who in the early days of the armed revolt only had rudimentary homemade-hunting rifles.

Today, the junta’s only remaining advantage is its air force, for which the regime has spent substantial public funds. Most countries worldwide have imposed sanctions against the military junta, restricting its ability to purchase aircraft and other military equipment. However, countries like Russia and China continue to supply arms to the regime, enabling it to continue its aerial campaign freely.

During the early days of armed revolt following the coup, the military did not immediately deploy air power, because junta chief Min Aung Hlaing believed his army could easily suppress the resistance forces who were poorly equipped. Even when ground units reported difficulties, they were not granted air support. Troops were pressured to continue fighting without backup.

The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13)

 (The very Prayer taught to humanity through his disciples by our Lord Jesus in AD 30.)

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we also forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil, for thy is the kingdom the power and the glory forever and ever, Amen.

Sean Turnell: Military Ruins Rising Myanmar Economy!

         (Sebastian Strangio’s post from THE DIPLOMAT on 06 May 2025.)

Sean Turnell on Myanmar’s Star-crossed Economic Reforms: “Had the coup not occurred I have no doubt that Myanmar would have made real progress in catching up to its peers and neighbors.”

When Myanmar’s military seized power on February 1, 2021, it forcibly dissolved the government led by the National League for Democracy (NLD) and terminated a process of political and economic opening that the government had spearheaded over the past five years.

This had involved ambitious efforts to loosen the military’s grip on the economy, rationalize Myanmar’s institutions, attract foreign investment, and catalyze the long process of catching up with the country’s neighbors.

Throughout the NLD’s term in office, the Australian economist Sean Turnell was a close participant in and observer of the reform process, serving as a “special economic advisor” to NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi, an experience that he relates in his recent book “Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of Reform in Aung San Suu Kyi’s Myanmar.”

MIG-29 Dropped Cluster-bombs on a School in Depayin

                       (Staff post from THE MYANMAR NOW MEDIA on 13May 2025.)

At around 9:30 am in the morning of May-12 a MIG-29 jet fighter coming up from the Shan-del Air Force Base in Meik-hti-lar flew over the Oh-htain-dwin Village of Depayin Township in the Sagaing Division of Myanmar.

The MIG-29 flew over and then came back quickly and dropped two large cluster bombs right onto the village school where more than 150 young students were attending that day. One dropped right into the one-storeyed main building with five crowded classrooms and another one in the front yard of the school. The bombs killed forty young schoolkids and two female teachers and wounded more than sixty other students.

The Russain-made large cluster bombs had two stage explosions. One in the air just before the impact and releasing at least 40 bomblets to kill people around and the second one hitting the floor and destroying the building.

According to the eyewitnesses the countless pieces of mutilated body parts were scattered all over the ground and inside the classrooms. Grieving parents had to sadly identiffy their children’s body parts by their cloths and jewelleries like bracelets and rings worn that day.

Do-gooders Want Chickens Free-range: It killed Millions!

             (Mandy McKeesick’s post from THE GUARDIAN AUS on 11 May 2025.)

(Australia right now is experiencing severe egg shortages, largely due to avian influenza popularly known as the bird-flu. Since late 2023, frequent outbreaks across Victoria and New South Wales have led to the culling of over one million layer-hens.)

‘Not a surprise’: what’s behind Australia’s egg shortage, and is it here to stay? Consumers have shown a preference for free-range eggs, but those farming systems are more vulnerable to biosecurity risks like bird flu.

Greg Mills knows his eggs. He has been working in the industry for more than 15 years: with the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries; as an industry adviser to the national poultry welfare code; as a university lecturer on egg production; and as an on-farm consultant in the development of free-range farms.

He has talked eggs to schoolchildren at the Sydney Royal Easter Show and presented to wider audiences on why we have intensive livestock systems. In 2017 he was named Kondinin rural consultant of the year. So, when Mills says that what we are seeing on supermarket shelves now – no eggs or expensive eggs – is here to stay, it pays to listen up.

US Vs China Proxy War in Myanmar?

          (Andrew Seth’s post from THE INTERPRETER AUS on 08 May 2025.)

Is the United States really planning a proxy war in Myanmar? Despite reports to the contrary, the likelihood of any Western country joining the conflict is vanishingly small.

There is a school of thought, found mainly in South Asia, that claims the United States and its allies are preparing to launch a “proxy war” in Myanmar. The operation would ostensibly be aimed at destroying Myanmar’s armed forces (Tatmadaw) and denying China access to the Indian Ocean.

Over the past few years, such claims have been promoted by a number of articles and editorial comments in local news outlets and on some websites. The basic outlines of the narrative are as follows:

US officials, including members of the State Department, the National Security Council, the Charge of the US embassy in Yangon, and the Deputy Commander of US Indo-Pacific Command, have all reportedly travelled to Bangladesh to work out the details of the planned operation with Sheikh Hasina’s government.

From TaungKham to NaungCho, Army Advances

        (Translated posts from the KHIAN ZAW’s FACEBOOK pages in April-May 2025.)

As a part of Northern Alliance’s Operation-1027, TNLA the Palaung Army captured the southern parts of Shan-North including Thibaw and KyaukMel and NaungCho. From NaungCho they tried to capture the high hilly lands around TaungKham last year in August.

But Myanmar Army,  correctly believing that losing TaungKham will threaten the major cantonment town of Pyin-Oo-Lwin where all three military academies (DSA, DSTA, & DSMA) are situated, fought back bitterly with the reinforcements from the Shan-South and Mandalay. One good luck for Myanmar Army is China’s last-minute intervention in Shan-North by pressuring the Kokang Army (MNDAA) to stop fighting against Myanmar Army.

Now Myanmar Army has only the Palaung Army (TNLA) against them to take back Taung Kham and the all the towns and villages on the road all the way to Lashio. And the town of NaungCho is the first in that way.

Indian Jets Attacked Pakistan: 5 Indian Jets Shot Down

                (Staff posts from the ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA on 07 May 2025.)

Eight dead after missiles strike nine sites in Pakistan, Pakistani Kashmir: Loud explosions have been heard in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir, where India says it has attacked "terrorist infrastructure". Delhi said it targeted nine sites and Pakistan vowed to respond to the attacks.

Pakistan shot down five Indian aircraft in 'defensive' act, military spokesperson says: Pakistani military spokesperson, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, has given further detail on its retaliation against India's missile strikes. "So far, I can confirm you that five Indian aircrafts including three Rafale, one SU-30 and one MiG-29 have been shot down, and one Heron drone has also been shot down," he said.

"I would also like to emphasise that all of these engagements have been done as a defensive [act] ... after the Indian aircraft attacked the fire on the Pakistani territory." He said one of the "engagements" took place near Bhatinda in India. "And there are other locations also as the information keeps on coming, I'll keep on updating," he said. Lieutenant General Chaudhry condemned India's attack as a "cowardly act" where the "serenity of the country has been violated".

Daily Blackouts are Killing Whole Families in Yangon

             (Translated staff post from the KHIT THIT MEDIA on 01 May 2025.)

Widespread daily blackouts are causing dreadful incidents in hot and humid Yangon City formerly known as Rangoon. People are forced to sleep without their air conditioners running full on at night. But many families who can afford to buy a small electric generator and spend very expensive petrol fuel are still sleeping with thire airconditioners running blowing full on.

Unfortunately, some ignorant Myanmar people do not really know that the petrol engine’s exhaust gas are full of carbon monoxide (CO). The result of inhaling CO inside an enclosed apartment is surely lethal and so many families are now dying of carbon monoxide poisoning in Yangon City.

Following is the recent stories of two families sadly killed by Carbon monoxide for they ran petrol electric generator in their small apartment so that, they foolishly thought, they would comfortably sleep with aircon on.

Battle For Lay-myet-hnar Town in Irrawaddy Division

           (Translated staff post from the MYANMAR NOWMEDIA on 30 April 2025.)

The victorious Arakan Army (AA) has already liberated 14 townships of Arakan State and one township in Chin State and now is opening massive war-fronts in three administrative division of Pegu, Magway, and Irrawaddy, all divisions geographically adjacent to the Arakan Ranges (the Yakhine Yoma).

After last-year capturing of Gwa town on the border of Irrawaddy Division and Arakan State three war columns of AA supplemented by allied PDF Irrawaddy troops are now marching deep into the Irrawaddy Delta the rice bowl of Myanmar. The first column is now attacking the Myanmar Army positions around the Lay-myet-hnar Town, while the second column is reaching the Ngar-thaing-chaung Town, and the third column is heading towards Thar-baung Town.

The Gwa-NgarThaingChaung Road is the principal route from Arakan to Irrawaddy and it pass-through the Lay-myet-hnar town.  Apparently the rapidly weakening Myanmar Army facing all sorts of enemy all over the country has been withdrawing from the front lines around Lay-myet-hnar as AA and allied PDF troops advanced rapidly towards the town.

John Sydenham Furnivall of British-Burma (1878-1960)

            (Wai Yan Aung’s post from the IRRAWADDY NEWS MEDIA on 07 July 2020.)

The Day a British Benefactor of Burmese Youth and Education Passed Away: On this day in 1960, John Sydenham Furnivall, a pro-Burmese British ex-civil servant who dedicated himself to the educational development of Burmese youth during the colonial period, served as a national planning adviser to independent Burma, and loved to be addressed as “U Gyi” (“uncle” in Burmese), died at the age of 82 in Cambridge, England.

Furnivall was born on 14 February 1878 in Great Bentley, Essex in England. For secondary schooling, he attended the Royal Medical Benevolent College (now Epsom College). He won a scholarship to Trinity Hall, Cambridge University in 1896. Four years later, in 1899, he obtained a degree in natural science.

He arrived in Myanmar (then Burma) in 1902 as a public servant in the Indian Civil Service. He served as the Commissioner of Land Settlement and Records across Myanmar. Furnivall, who married an ethnic Shan woman and could speak Burmese fluently, was upset by the oppression of the Burmese people. He boldly told his government that Burmese people deserved self-rule and later retired from his position.

He founded the Burma Research Society, Burma Book Club, Burma Education Extension Association and the publication The World of Books (Ganda Lawka), which introduced Myanmar youth to the world’s literature and helped broaden their horizons. He also laid the foundation for the establishment of the Burmese Translation Society (now Sarpay Beikman) after independence.

Burma in Limbo - Part 4

 (My post from Australian National University's NEW MANDALA on 14 Oct 2010.)

1947 Interim Government of Burma.

On third December 1946 the Communists were expelled from ruling AFPFL. The expulsion basically laid the foundation for never-ending civil war in Burma.

Just 30 days before on third November 1946 AFPFL (Anti-Fascist Peoples’ Freedom League) the loosely formed coalition of Than Htun’s Communists and Kyaw Nyein’s Socialists and Aung San’s PVO had achieved their aim of forming the Aung San led interim government by pressuring the colonial government by a widely disruptive general strike nationwide. Even the colonial police joined the strike.

When the Governor Sir Hubert Rance invited AFPFL to join the colonial government in a power-sharing deal the Communists appointed their former Secretary-General Thein Phe Myint a minister. Aung San was effectively the PM and Kyaw Nyein was the powerful Home minister with police and internal security portfolios. Other ministers were appointed by the Governor.

Will Myanmar Eventually Become A Province of China?

          (Kyaw Htet Aung’s OP_ED post from THE DIPLOMAT on 26 April 2025.)

China Decides How Far the Resistance Can Go in Myanmar: China has a growing ability to dictate outcomes on the ground in Myanmar. For resistance forces, the implications are profound.

Since the February 2021 military coup, Myanmar has descended into unprecedented chaos. The country has fractured under the weight of violent repression and grassroots resistance across the country. In just over four years, more than 500 new armed groups have emerged nationwide, adding to the already long standing ethnic armed organizations (EAOs).

What began as sporadic guerrilla warfare has escalated into a full-scale, multifront conflict. Over 16,000 armed clashes have erupted between the junta’s forces and various resistance groups, marking one of the most intense civil conflicts in Southeast Asia in recent history.

Myanmar Army Killed Hundreds in 20 Days of Ceasefire

        (Based on staff post from the KHIT THIT NEWS MEDIA on 22 April 2025.)

Myanmar Army declared a ceasefire after the devastating megaquake from 02-April to 22-April. Despite the so-called ceasefire, Myanmar Air Force fighter planes and helicopter gunships and armed Paramotors have never stopped attacking the civilian populace in the megaquake-stricken middle Burma.

More than 160 Burmese people including many young children were killed and many more were seriously wounded during those twenty days from the relentless aerial attacks by Myanmar Air Force’s fighter jest and Paramotors.

Followings are the detailed lists of the daily aerial attacks and the casualties and the photos from the arid Middle Burma towns and villages in the region locally known as ANYAR and some other regions of Myanmar.

China’s Takeover of Lashio: Is China annexing Myanmar?

Myanmar Governor Deng Xijun?

The Kokang Army (MNDAA) has finally returned the captured Lashio City back into the hand of Myanmar Army. But is it really an agreed-transfer or just a duigusie for the beginning of Chinese annexation of Myanmar as their newest province?

China’s Designated-Provincial-Governor of Myanmar, Deng Xijun, formerly known as the China’s Special Envoy for Myanmar Affairs, has been in Lashio since Mid-April establishing the Provincial Governor Office currently known as The Supervisory Office for Peaceful Transfer of Lahio City from MDNAA to Myanmar Army.

But the term is just a misleading China-Speak for the peaceful Chinese takeover of Lashio the capital city of Shan State North and the very beginning of the peaceful annexation of the Union of Myanmar formerly known as the Union of Burma. The stupid Myanmar Generals are now painfully and peacefully fucked in their arse without a lube by their Chinese Masters.

Children Burnt To Crisp By Myanmar Air Force Jets

              (Facebook post from the KHIT THIT NEWS MEDIA on 20-April 2025.)

Just a couple of days ago on April-19 Myanmar Air Force fighter jets bombed and machine-gunned the large Burmese village of Kan-Daw in the Myintmu Township of megaquake-stricken Sagaing Division.

The surprise attack killed several villagers including two young children. Like many other Burmese villages in the region the village was controlled by the rebelling PDF units but at the time of the aerial attack ther were no engagements between the rebel units and Myanmar Army troops.

The aerial attack started at about noon that day and lasted a few hours. Myanmar Air Foce planes dropped mainly HEI (High-Explosive-Incendiary) shells causing a large part of village to burn to the crisp.

Chinese Intervention in Myanmar: Proxy War with US?

         (Subir Bhaumik’ OpEd post from the EURASIA FORUM on 17 April 2025.)

Chinese Covert Intervention In Myanmar Amidst Possible Proxy War With US: China may have attracted global attention by taking Donald Trump’s USA head-on in the escalating trade-tariff war, but there’s no way one can miss out on Beijing’s equally assertive but less publicised recent moves in Myanmar.

This at a time when China has come out in open support of the Burmese military junta which has lost control over much territory to a loose coalition of ethnic rebel groups and pro-democracy armed Bamar resistance outfits called People’s Defense Forces (PDF).

China’s desperation stems from the poor performance of the Burmese army Tatmadaw amidst reports that the US is negotiating with Bangladesh to open a supply route to provide military, food and medical supplies to rebels in the Rakhine and Chin provinces.

Capitalism Didn’t Change China: China Changed It!

               (Script of Marco Rubio’s Senate Speech on 15January 2025.)

The central argument behind doing business with China was we think capitalism will change them, okay, they’re gonna eat Big-macs and drink Coca-Colas and they’re gonna literally ingest democracy and it will transform them, okay!

They argued that capitalism was gonna change China, now we stand here 23 years later and realise capitalism didn’t change China, China changed capitalism! China did get rich, they most certainly got rich, but they didn’t use that money to buy our products, they use that money to buy the products that are made in China, and they didn’t become a democracy either.

Now what you have is what was once a poor Chinese Communist Party now you have a rich Chinese Communist Party that has tightened its grip on the country ans it’s actually going around the world trying to export their authoritarian model.

Myanmar is HELL: Don’t Come Back My Boy!

            (Translation of San Kyaw Zwar Win’s poem “Pyan-ma-lar-nel-Ngarh-kaung”.)

Too many ruthless men want to be king in this fucking country but also too many lawless characters in this fucking country,

Too many overhead power cables in this fucking country but too many blackouts in this fucking country,

Just too little electricity in this fucking country but the power bills are too much in this fucking country,

I was nearly killed too many times in this dangerous country, and thus I want to tell you this, Don’t come back my boy,

You could be occasionally homesick remembering Shwedagon, Bagan, Innlay, Monywar, and Harlawar snacks back here, but don’t come back my boy,

Too many unclaimed corpses on the streets and too many unsolved crimes and too many orphaned children,

One Muslim Village had 1,000+ Killed by the Mega-Quake

              (Translated staff post from the KHIT THIT MEDIA on 31 March 2025.)

All three mosques in the Bone-Old Islamic Village, the population of about ten thousands, were flattened by the March-28 Mega-Quake, and only about 200 corpses had been recovered as more than one thousand expected to perish in the rubbles.

The devastated village is in the Amarapura Township of Mandalay Division in Middle Burma. Right next to the quake’s epicentre Sagaing City, the unfortunate Islamic village has nearly 1,000 still trapped inside the collapsed mosques.

Mega-Quake struck at 52 minutes after the noon on March-28 and Yetkandaw-North, Yetkandaw-Middle, and Thanbayarchan mosques all collapsed, and the piles pf rubbles trapped the bodies of more than 1,000 muslims praying inside those mosques.

God Has Punished Myanmar With The Mega-Quake?

                (My thoughts on the Mega Earthquake in Myanmar 0n 28 March 2025.)

The Lord our God has punished Myanmar with a Mega-Earthquake the world had never seen on that scale before. Myanmar also is one of the most geologically "active" areas in the world because it sits on top of the convergence of four of these tectonic plates - the Eurasian plate, the Indian plate, the Sunda plate and the Burma microplate.

The Himalayas were formed by the Indian plate colliding with the Eurasian plate, and the 2004 Tsunami as a result of the Indian plate moving beneath the Burma microplate. Dr Rebecca Bell, a reader in tectonics at Imperial College London, said that to accommodate all this motion, faults - cracks in the rock - form which allow tectonic plates to "slither" sideways.

There is a major fault called the Sagaing fault , which cuts right through Myanmar north to south and is more than 1,200km (746 miles) long. Early data suggests that the movement that caused Friday's 7.7-magnitude earthquake was a "strike-slip" - where two blocks move horizontally along each other. This aligns with the movement typical of the Sagaing fault. As the plates move past each other, they can become stuck, building friction until it is suddenly released and the earth shifts, causing an earthquake.

Myanmar Earthquake Possibly Killed 10,000?

                         (Staff post from the ALJAZEERA MEDIA on 28 March 2025.)

Collapsed InnWa bridge over Irrawaddy at Sagaing.

What caused the powerful Myanmar and Thailand earthquake? Myanmar’s location between two tectonic plates – the India and Eurasia plates – places it at particular risk of earthquakes. A strong earthquake struck central Myanmar.

Myanmar has been hit by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake, which also affected neighbouring Thailand, its tremors felt as far afield as Cambodia and India. Much of the devastation caused by Friday’s quake appeared to be in Myanmar’s ancient capital of Mandalay, close to the epicentre in the Sagaing region, where buildings toppled and infrastructure buckled. More than 140 people were killed in the country, according to state media.

Myanmar has been struck by several quakes since a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in the southern city of Bago in 1930, which killed at least 550 people, according to a United Nations seismic risk assessment. So, what makes this Southeast Asian country, which has been blighted by nearly four years of civil war, so vulnerable to earthquakes and how big was this one?

Myanmar Earthquake Killed Thousands?

              (Based on staff post from the ABC NEWS AUS on 28 March 2025.)

At least 144 people killed, 732 others injured by earthquake in Myanmar: A magnitude-7.7 earthquake has struck Mandalay, the second-largest city in Myanmar, with the effects felt as far away as Thailand and Vietnam.

Myanmar's military chief says at least 144 people have been killed by the disaster and 732 others injured. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has warned the number of people killed is likely to rise. Fortunately the earthquake did not kill as many people as he has killed last four years since his illegal coup in 2021.

Finally the lord our God has punished Myanmar Nation for killing each other in the world’s longest running civil war. Take heed and stop the hostile actions against each other or else Myanmar will be erased from this planet.

Will India Annex Burma’s Chin State? Sooner the Better.

          (Rajeev Bhattacharyya’s post from THE DIPLOMAT on 24 March 2025.)

Concept of ‘Greater Mizoram’ Gets a Shot in the Arm From Myanmar’s Spring Revolution: The coming together of areas inhabited by communities in India’s Mizoram and Myanmar’s Chin State has New Delhi’s tacit support. Myanmar’s junta is not amused.

Among the several unintended consequences of the ongoing Spring Revolution in Myanmar has been the consolidation of the historical bond between the people of the country’s Chin State and their ethnic kin in the contiguous Indian border state of Mizoram.

The region is home to a host of communities belonging to the Mizo-Chin-Kuki-Zo groups that share ethnic ties. They profess Christianity and speak varied dialects but are united in their resolve to overthrow the State Administration Council (SAC), as the military regime is known in Myanmar.

Thousands of refugees from Chin State and Sagaing Region crossed over to Mizoram in 2021 in the months after the military coup due to disturbed conditions in the country. This was a replay of the situation that unfolded after the 1988 uprising in Myanmar.

90-Days Battle for Taung-Kham near Pyin-Oo-Lwin

       (Based on staff posts from the MYANMAR NOW MEDIA in March 2025.)

Taung-Kham Village in Shan-State-North’s Naung-Cho Township is the doorway to the most important Military Town of Pyin-Oo-Lwin where the DSA (Defense Services Academy), the DSTA (Defense Services Technical Academy), and the DSMA (Defense Services Medical Academy) of universally-hated Myanmar Army are situated.

Only about fifty miles from the crucial Military-Academies-Town Pyin-Oo-Lwin, Taung-Kham also is on the Naung-Cho to Yart-Sout Strategic Highway connecting the Shan-State-North already in the victorious ethnic resistance armies’ hands and the Shan-State-South still in the failing Myanmar Army’s hands.

Once Taung-Kham is controlled by the Palaung Army (TNLA), Pyin-Oo-Lwin would soon be bombarded by TNLA’s heavy artillery just before the infantry assault by combined TNLA and Mandalay-PDF troops.

Myanmar Dictator Licking Putin’s Balls in Moscow

               (Staff post from the KHIT THIT MEDIA on 05 March 2025.)      

When Myanmar Dictator Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (hatefully called by his countrymen as the Motherfucker or Ma-aye-low in Burmese) was invited to visit Russia and given the opportunity to meet Russian Dictator Putin, he gladly licked his stepdad Putin balls for hours in Moscow.

He has given a book as a present to Putin when they met each other at Kremlin in Moscow on last March-4 yesterday. The book is the biography of King Alaung-Phayar alias U Aung Zeya who founded the Kone-Baung Dynasty, the last dynasty and the last kingdom of Burma.

He proudly declared to Putin personally that the book is extremely important for Myanmar-Russia relationship, for there is a so-called over 2,500-years-old prediction of Lord Gautama Buddha on Myanmar-Russia relationship.

According to the book Lord Buddha mentioned that he would reincarnate into so many lives and eventually after 2,500 years since his death while Buddha he would become a Russian king, and he would be known as the lord of advanced weaponry and that Russian King would have a very close relationship with the Burmese King of his time.

Zelensky Cheated Trump and Vance in Oval Office?

         (Michael Goodwin’s post from the NEW YORKPOST’s on 01 March 2025.)      

Zelensky was there to sign the deal.

Disaster in the Oval Office: Dems lead Zelensky, Ukraine off a cliff with pressure to reject mineral deal. A common criticism of Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous Friday performance in the Oval Office is that he failed to read the room.

Actually, the Ukrainian president did read a room — but it was the wrong room. Before meeting President Trump, Zelensky met with anti-Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the terms of the mineral deal that the president was offering, according to Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).

“Just finished a meeting with President Zelensky here in Washington. He confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for Ukraine,” Murphy’s office posted on X at 11:15 a.m. Friday.

He attached a picture of Zelensky at a conference table, with Murphy seated on the opposite side. Forty minutes later, Zelensky arrived at the White House, where Trump met his car, smiled, shook his hand and walked him into the Oval Office.

Wałęsa Disgusted at Trump-Vance Treatment of Zelensky

             (Jakub Krupa’s post from the GUARDIAN UK on 04 March 2025.)      

Lech Wałęsa expresses ‘horror and distaste’ at Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy. Ex-Polish leader, who won Nobel prize for pro-democracy efforts, compares meeting to a communist interrogation.

The former Polish president and Nobel peace prize winner Lech Wałęsa has signed a letter to Donald Trump expressing “horror and distaste” at his argument with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in the White House last week.

The letter, signed by Wałęsa and more than 30 former Polish political prisoners held during the communist era, said Trump and his vice-president’s demands that Zelenskyy show gratitude were “insulting” in the face of the Ukrainian country’s fight for freedom.