2025 in Myanmar
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This is the list of important events happened in Myanmar in 2025.
Incumbents
[edit]- Acting President: Min Aung Hlaing
- Chairman of the State Administration Council: Min Aung Hlaing
- Vice Chairman of the State Administration Council: Soe Win
- Prime Minister: Min Aung Hlaing
Deputy Prime Minister:
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- 1 January -
- National Unity Government releases 169 prisoners to commemorate the new year.[1]
- The Arakan Army allows residents of Maungdaw who fled the town due to conflict to return to their homes after securing recommendation letters provided by AA administrators.[2]
- The junta passes a new cybersecurity law which criminalises unauthorised VPN usage and running of unsanctioned online gambling businesses.[3]
- 4 January - The junta releases nearly 6,000 prisoners, including 600 political prisoners to commemorate Independence Day. Among them are Khet Aung, former Chief Minister of Kachin State and actors Thinzar Wint Kyaw and Nang Mwe San.[4]
- 5 January - A new electricity distribution scheme is instituted. In Yangon, townships are divided into three groups with receiving eight hours of electricity daily through four two-hour period. In Mandalay, groups in every township receive six hours of electricity through two three-hour periods. In the rest of the country, each area receives six hours of electricity after six hours of outage.[5]
- 8 January - At least 40 people are killed in a Tatmadaw airstrike on the village of Kyauk Ni Maw in Ramree Island, Rakhine State.[6]
- 13 January - At least 12 people are killed in a landslide in Hpakant, Kachin State.[7]
- 16 January - Nay Soe Maung, son-in-law of Than Shwe, was sentenced to 3 years in prison for criticizing the military regime. [8]
- 20 January - China announces that it had brokered a ceasefire agreement between the junta and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA).[9]
- 26 January - The Kachin Independence Army and PDF capture Bhamo Airport and the Tatmadaw Armored Battalion 7006 base.[10]
Ongoing
[edit]Holidays
[edit]Source:[11]
- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 4 January – Independence Day
- 12 February – Union Day
- 2 March – Peasants' Day
- 24 March – Full Moon Day of Tabaung
- 27 March – Armed Forces Day
- 13 April – Myanmar New Year
- 1 May – Labour Day
- 22 May – Full Moon Day of Kason
- 6 June – Eid al-Adha
- 19 July – Martyrs' Day
- 20 July – Full Moon Day of Waso
- 16–18 October – Full Moon Day of Thadingyut
- 14–15 November – Full moon day of Tazaungmon
- 25 November – National Day
- 25 December – Christmas Day
References
[edit]- ^ စောရယ် (2024-01-01). "ရာဇဝတ်အကျဉ်းသား ၁၇၀ ခန့်ကို နှစ်သစ်ကူးတွင် NUG လွတ်ငြိမ်းခွင့်ပေး". Myanmar Now (in Burmese). Retrieved 2025-01-02.
- ^ "မြန်မာ-ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နယ်စပ် AA ထိန်းချုပ်ပြီးနောက် ဒေသခံတွေကို နေရပ်ပြန်ခွင့်ပြု". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 2025-01-02. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
- ^ "ထောင်ဒဏ်နဲ့ ငွေဒဏ်ချမှတ်မဲ့ ဆိုက်ဘာလုံခြုံရေးဥပဒေ စစ်ကောင်စီ ပြဋ္ဌာန်း". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 2025-01-01. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ "ကချင်ပြည်နယ်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ် အပါအဝင် နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသား ခြောက်ရာခန့် ပြန်လွတ်". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 2025-01-04. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ "ဘာကြောင့် နာရီပိုင်းပဲ မီးပေးနိုင်တော့တာလဲ". BBC News (in Burmese). 2025-01-07. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
- ^ "An army airstrike on a village in western Myanmar has killed at least 40 people, reports say". AP News. 2025-01-09. Retrieved 2025-01-09.
- ^ "A landslide in a Myanmar jade mining area kills at least 12 and leaves many missing". AP News. 2025-01-13. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
- ^ Myanmar Junta Jails Ex-Dictator Than Shwe’s Son-In-Law for 3 Years The Irrawaddy. January 27, 2025.
- ^ "China says it brokered a ceasefire between Myanmar army and an ethnic rebel group". AP News. 2025-01-21. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ KIA, Allies Seize Airport, Armored Unit From Myanmar Junta in Bhamo Hein Htoo Zan. The Irrawaddy. January 28, 2025
- ^ "Myanmar Public Holidays 2025". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
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