The junta has started sending fully armed soldiers to supermarkets, convenience stores and pubs in Yangon to force them to sell Myanmar Beer because the military-controlled conglomerate that makes it is suffering mounting losses from a nationwide boycott, according to residents and shop and bar owners of the country’s commercial capital.

The Chinland Defence Force (CDF) claims that two of its fighters were killed when the Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA) attacked its camps in Tonzang Township, northern Chin State twice in recent weeks.

The ZRA—another ethnic armed organisation based in the state of Manipur, India, which serves as a border guard force for the Indian government—raided one of the camps belonging to the Chin anti-junta resistance group near Tonzang on August 31, and another CDF camp last Sunday.

Israel has supplied the Myanmar military since the 2021 military coup, according to a major general in the Myanmar air force, who spoke with Frontier on the condition of anonymity, and new trade data shared by activist group Justice for Myanmar.

Archaeological treasures in Myanmar’s World Heritage-listed temple city of Bagan were left flooded after seven hours of heavy rain on Sunday.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has invited Myanmar junta representatives to a September security conference and training programme in the United States (US), according to the US Department of Defense.

Khin Ohmar, chair of the Myanmar human rights organisation Progressive Voice, called for the junta’s invitation to the Hawaii conference to be revoked, and for the Myanmar military to be barred from all ADMM-Plus events.

A bomb attack on a junta compound in the Myanmar border hub of Myawaddy killed five regime officials, including a military officer, and wounded 11 policemen late Sunday, according to sources.

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) has infiltrated Maungdaw Township in Rakhine State, intimidating and kidnapping residents.