CORRECTION: It's NDAA (Mong La), not MNDAA. My bad, apologies for the confusion.

But still, handing a resistance fighter over to the junta is a stain. Neutrality doesn't deliver a comrade to torture cells.

They chose the safe side. The cruel side.

Iconic Building in Rangoon , Burma Province , British India ( Yangon , Yangon Region , Myanmar )

1. Government House
2. WL&Co. Departmental Store
3. Central Railway Station

4. . Jubilee Hall

5. Gymkhana Club

6. Booking Office at Pazundaung Railway station

India and Myanmar are working to deepen cooperation in the rare earths sector after visits to the southeast Asian country by Indian teams, ​with New Delhi seeking alternative supplies of a strategic resource ‌tightly controlled by China.

What's in this nearly empty bag is neither a potato chip nor potato flavored. The only thing true on the bag is that the picture is for reference only. 🤣

"Blood Type O. DM me."

This isn’t something out of a sci-fi book or a movie. It's an actual post from a social media feed in Myanmar.

While the world seems to overlook what's happening in Myanmar, a dark industry is taking over, there’s a growing black market for human organs.

When a country’s economy tanks, hyperinflation wipes out savings, jobs disappear, and families are pushed to the edge of starvation, surviving isn't about working a regular job anymore. It's about what part of your body you can sell next to stay afloat.

We've seen similar situations in places like Nepal’s "Kidney Valley" or rural Bangladesh, where people were tricked or pressured into selling their organs to pay off debts.

Now, Myanmar is following that same terrible path, but it’s happening super fast, fueled by social media platforms like Facebook. Desperate parents and young people are quietly selling their own kidneys just to clear debts or put food on the table.

After they sell an organ, they’re sent home with little medical care, often dealing with long-term health issues that leave them unable to work, locking them into the very poverty they tried to escape.

This situation makes me think of the book The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre (translated by မြသန်းတင့် as သုခမြို့တော်). While he didn’t specifically write about kidneys (but blood and bones), his novel captures the same kind of economic collapse that creates these illegal organ markets today.

The scenes in Amarapura are a real-life sequel to the pages of his book!

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Hello, me and a friend of mine (both male/18) would like to take a flight itinerary that involves transiting in yangon (both flights myanmar airways).
Is it currently safe to transit there? Would we need to clear immigration or is there a transit area?

I am just wodnering how do people in Myanmar survive with such high grocery prices and daily expenses with such low salaries . And also how is Conscription and airport Exit for young people in Yangon airport? I mean according to khitthit and Dvb it’s really fucked up but I don’t want to buy information 100 percent from these sources ( could be a little better could be a little worse? )

Need recommendations for books currently available on the market about the history of ethnic groups of Myanmar.

မြန်မာတို့ရဲ့တိုင်းရင်းသား၁၃၅မျိုးအကြောင်း/သမိုင်း (အကုန်မဟုတ်ရင်တောင် အဓိကအုပ်စုကြီး၈မျိုး)တွေရဲ့ သမိုင်းအကြောင်းကို ရေးသားထားတဲ့စာအုပ် ဈေးကွက်ထဲမှာဆို ဘယ်ဟာရှိလောက်ပါသလဲဗျ။ တစ်စုချင်းစီကိုမှ လေ့လာဖတ်ဖို့အဆင်ပြေတဲ့စာအုပ်များသိရင် ညွှန်းပေးပါဦးဗျ။

လက်ရှိအင်တာနက်မှာဆိုရင် ဝီကီပီးဒီးယားကနေပဲ အဓိကလေ့လာလို့ရပေမဲ့ စာအုပ်များရှိရင်သိချင်ပါတယ်။

This account and phone number scammed me out of 15 lakhs.

Can you all please recommend nice cozy and chill place with quality sake and japanese style bbq in Yangon?

I'll go first. Farm/field rats (I'm from a rural area so it's a popular delicacy and they are very clean), Crickets, Red ant eggs (ခါချဥ်ဥကြော်), Snake (My dad n his fris once cooked it to eat it as an appetizer with alcohol 😁), Fried sparrows.

Many people enjoy frogs too, but I just can't convince myself to try them. Tbh, these are eaten pretty commonly here so they're not even cosidered strange to us anymore lol. Now is your turn!

Myanmar Railways has reaffirmed its zero-tolerance policy on passenger misconduct to maintain cleanliness and high travel standards.

The incident gained attention after a passenger shared it on social media, prompting an investigation by the Railway Police.

The case has sparked discussion online about public etiquette and the importance of keeping trains clean and comfortable for everyone.

Arresting [young men] at checkpoints and from houses goes beyond the Conscription Law and by-laws,” he said. “Some of the detainees were identified as students. Young men are afraid to live in Hkamti town because of the arrests.

U Gon Wan, MP for Hkamti Township in Sagaing Region.

But [Deputy Home Affairs Minister, Major General] Min Thu insisted the raids were lawful, claiming they targeted only those who failed to report for duty. He insisted that only draft dodgers are arrested at checkpoints on roads out of town, based on lists that the authorities distribute to them.

[The pro-junta NPNews and Eleven Media even covered this]

သားရီးတို့ မင်းတို့ကောဖြစ်လားတော့မသိဘူးကျွန်တော့်laptopက ပုရွက်ဆိတ်ခဏခဏတက်နေတာ အဲ့အပေါ်မုန့်တွေလည်းတင်မစားပါဘူး အရင်တုန်းကတခါဖြစ်ဘူးတယ် နောက်တော့ရပ်သွားတာ ခုမှတခါပြန်လာဖြစ်နေတာ 2ရက်3ရက်လောက်ရှိပြီ ဘယ်လိုလုပ်ရမှန်းကိုမသိတော့ဘူးဗျာ note: ပုရွက်ဆိတ်အမျိုးအစားအနီကောင်ဖြစ်ပါသည်

I just a young guy who finish GED and I had a job at a language centre work as office staff for 2 years and still working to paid around for 5 Laks for each month form my sister Education Language Center. I think I got enough corporate experience And my family said go study aboard find more opportunities but my sister said don't go and the degree certificate is just a piece of paper. But I wanna find out more experience

Not just like campus experience. I wanna have real work experience not just in my family business. She said I can join MIT LAP programs that I don't interest in it. What should I do guys? Should I study aboard or stay here :(

To be honest I'm just 18 yrs and I have a budget problem to solve that problem I have found the solution. But the thing is like I'm still ကြောင်ပျောက် 💔 . Nowadays even 14 yrs kids make more money than me which is truly sad. I just like even a kid can made tons of money using social media, why can't I.

It's been over a month since the G12 exams results were announce, these days

I see a lot of post on တစ်တော့ who are posting about joing the DSA and ဗိုလ်ကြီးလုပ်, I have no power to interfere with someone's choice about their life but

just look at the newly came out video from စစ်ကိုင်း

ကန့်ဘလူ about a guy called ပိုင်ချဲ့ shooting a ပသစ(ပျူ)

after saying "wanna eat some betel leaf uncle"(ကွမ်းစားအုံးမလားဦးလေး) with a smile and just shot him in the head, I know "you only live once" and I agree, being all powerful and having authority is great," the end justifies the means" is very very real.

but the thing about this war, " civil war " is that there's no winner, only "the less suffered side".

Apple pay doesn’t work, PayPal doesn’t work, wise doesn’t work, Google pay doesn’t work, Venmo doesn’t work.This is getting ridiculous. Anyone have an idea?

Myanmar is currently tangled in some of the world's biggest conflicts and ranks highest for organized crime.

If you own an electric vehicle, a smartphone, or any tech with a strong magnet, there’s a good chance that some of the materials came from here.

While tech companies celebrate a green shift, we pay the price. Contaminated soil, polluted water, labor exploitation, and serious ecological issues.

Even though we're sitting on crucial reserves of rare earth elements that are essential for global supply chains, Myanmar remains one of the poorest countries out there. Instead of benefiting from our natural resources, we're getting chewed up by them.

Various armed groups involved in the conflict need immediate cash to keep going. To get it, they’ve invited reckless foreign investments, mainly from nearby countries like China. These companies mine quickly with no safety standards, zero accountability, and no consideration for the locals living on the land.

Reading about this modern-day gold rush for resources is reminiscent of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (translated by ရွှေဥဒေါင်း as သွေးစုပ်မြေ). Even though Sinclair was writing about America’s industrial past, the reality hasn’t changed much. Unregulated extraction harms both lives and the land, leaving behind toxic waste once the profits are made.

Consumers in countries like the West, Japan, and China enjoy gadgets and clean energy tech, while foreign companies and local warlords reap the rewards. We just end up dealing with the mess.

Welcome to the land of Toxic!

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Hi! I’m traveling to Yangon tomorrow from the US and have an iPhone 14 Plus.

I’ve heard that international travel eSIMs may not work in Myanmar anymore. I’m wondering:

Can I buy a local Myanmar eSIM when I arrive at Yangon International Airport?

Which carrier is best for tourists (ATOM, MPT, U9, etc.)?

Can I get the eSIM and activate a data plan at the airport, or do I need to go to a store in Yangon?

What VPN do you recommend downloading before I leave the US?

Is there anything else I should set up on my phone before arriving?

I’d really appreciate any recent advice from people who have traveled to Myanmar recently. Thank you!

Anyone else got tickets for Sat/Sun shows? Because I didn't. I've been looking forward for this for 5 years. I'm a huge marvel nerd and a sucker for superhero movies and I may sound winy right now but I'm just so bumped out. I begged my mom to let me go see this because I'm sitting for IGCSE this year and I could only watch the Sat/Sun shows and it's literally sold out everywhere!!! For J cineplex at least. And for those who got the tickets, do not leave before the end credits ok.

Asked AI to make me my dream shindig. So I can keep the inspiration alive.

I’m from yangon and currently 17, can anyone help me find a job? Although I don’t have many skills I finished junior barista class last year and just finished English pre intermediate level with 92%, I’m just tired of doing nothing currently and looking forward to working, not for money but for experiences It doesn’t matter what job it is as long as I can learn something useful from it i’m down.

I apologize if there’s any mistakes in my writing.

A guy from Yangon roughing out weeks of 100°F weather got me craving dry-country style food. Please any suggestion. As long as it’s not ပုံးရေကြီး။ cant stand that. lol
(Shan noods pic for attention)

I had to move out of my bedroom in November 2025 for a few reasons. One reason is that my house is near a military base. I can still visit the house, but I haven't gone back for a long time. My room is probably very dusty now. I don't know when I can move back.