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English language news service from Myanmar's largest independent media network: The Democratic Voice of Burma. Newscast goes behind the headlines on What's happening in Myanmar. Newsroom shines a spotlight on under-reported stories through interviews with decision makers. Watch DVB English News on YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts. https://www.youtube.com/@dvbenglish/podcasts
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Myanmar human rights activist and civil society leader Khin Ohmar sits down with DVB English News to discuss how and why the Myanmar military is blocking, obstructing, and "weaponizing" earthquake relief from reaching those in need. Our request for an interview with a representative from the U.N. in Myanmar working on the earthquake response went unanswered.Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
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 Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
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 Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music or wherever you get podcasts.
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 DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music or wherever you get podcasts.
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 Argentina issued 25 arrest warrants for Myanmar's military and civilian leaders, including jailed State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and former President Htin Kyaw, on feb. 14 for their alleged involvement in genocide against the Rohingya. Read more here.Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music or wherever you get podcasts.
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 (MNDAA) on Jan. 18.Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music or wherever you get podcasts.
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 Unity Government (NUG) President's Office spokesperson Kyaw Zaw responded to Mathieson's comments made in this interview: "We [didn't] say that we control two thirds of the country. We say that resistance forces control two thirds of the countries. We [didn't] say that we fully control and govern 144 townships. We're saying that the resistance forces control, and we didn't say that we fully control 95 townships, towns and cities. We clearly say that [the People's Defense Force captured] and control eight towns and cities out of 95."
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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 YouTube Music. DVB English News is available wherever you get your podcasts.
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. DVB English News is available wherever you get your podcasts.
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. DVB English News is available wherever you get your podcasts.
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.
John Quinley III is the director at Fortify Rights. He joined us in the newsroom to discuss international accountability for crimes committed by the Myanmar military.
Watch Newsroom on YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Audible, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or YouTube Music. DVB English News is available wherever you get your podcasts.
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 countries to climate change.
Watch Newsroom on YouTube & Spotify. Listen on Spotify, Audible, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or YouTube Music. DVB English News is available wherever you get your podcasts.
The death toll from the devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake, which struck central Myanmar on March 28, is over 3,600. But DVB documents at least 4,346 bodies have been recovered with 7,890 injured, and over 210 still missing. The earthquake has impacted more than nine million people living in 58 townships. Now survivors face a public health emergency.Stay tuned to DVB English News for more Newscasts. We're available wherever you get podcasts. Follow or subscribe.
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 available wherever you get podcasts. Follow or subscribe.
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 townships. It added that 48 townships are under full resistance control. While 79 remain contested between the military and the resistance. The regime is administering 107 townships, according to the NUG.
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![Newsroom: Isabel Todd on the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar [VIDEO]](https://s3.castbox.fm/92/20/41/b5527005709bd7943849ba10134f1b8d34_scaled_v1_400.jpg "Newsroom: Isabel Todd on the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar [VIDEO]")
Isabel Todd, the coordinator at the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M), sits down in-studio with DVB English News to discuss international advocacy on Myanmar. The SAC-M was founded by three international experts on Myanmar following the 2021 military coup.
Listen to Newsroom on Spotify, Audible, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or YouTube. DVB English News is available wherever you get your podcasts.
The civilian-led National Unity Government (NUG) Foreign Affairs Minister Zin Mar Aung speaks to DVB Bureau Chief Mon Mon Myat about the progress that it has made, along with its People’s Defense Forces (PDF), over the last three years of resistance to the 2021 military coup
Listen to Newsroom on Spotify, Audible, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or YouTube. DVB English News is available wherever you get your podcasts.
Myanmar documentary filmmaker Lay Thida and DVB Bureau Chief Mon Mon Myat join English News managing editor Adam Bemma in the DVB Newsroom for a roundtable discussion on the tragic death of award-winning filmmaker Pe Maung Same, and the recent life sentence handed to Shin Daewe, and what this means for documentary film in Myanmar.
To learn more about the Pe Maung Same Film Fund, go to the Facebook page, or email info@pmsamefilmfund.org.
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