Due to Thread Shortages, Traditional Clothing Weavers in Somo Preh Soe Leh are Disappearing

Maw Oo Myar / Kantarawaddy Times In Karenni State’s Somo Preh Soe Leh (Shardaw) Township, there are still some residents who continue to wear traditional...

The Food Crisis Facing Karenni IDPs That Needs to Be Addressed

Blessing/ Kantarawaddy Times It has been almost four years since the people of Karenni State have been displaced by war. Two-thirds of Karenni’s population are...

Those Who Replace Their Losses with Happiness

Kay Du/ Kantarawaddy Times On a breezy evening, school-age children were running around and playing along the roadside. Around the same time, housewives and children...

IDP Farmer Daw Pheh Myar Says ‘If We Have Land to Cultivate, We Won’t Go Hungry’

Kantarawaddy Times Scattered among the farms, small bamboo huts with thatched roofs dot the landscape here and there. As the writer looks towards one of...

Precautions for Strong Wind Hazards

Kantarawaddy Times Strong winds are one of the most common natural disasters. In Myanmar, they often occur during the pre-monsoon months of April and May,...

IDPs at the Border Struggling to Roof Their Homes Before the Rains Come

KayDu/ Kantarawaddy Times Inside a small hut in an internally displaced person camp, a woman in her 40s named Maw Phoe Moe patiently sews Dipterocarpus...

The Silent Days of a Ruined City (Hpasaung)

Saw Eh Kanyaw/ Kantarawaddy Times On March 18, I was fortunate to gain access to my birthplace, my shattered hometown of Hpasaung, with revolutionary comrades'...

The Lives of Civilians Who Have No Choice but to Shelter in Bomb Bunkers for Safety

Kay Du / Kantarawaddy Times “Nobody wants to sleep underground before they die, right? But when the airstrikes come, we don’t have time to run....

Stepping on a Landmine While Saving a Friend: The Story of Khu Sue Reh

Kay Du/ Kantarawaddy Times In a small compound at a border area where a group of comrades live together, I was standing and talking on...

Dahlia’s Three-Year Hellish Experience

Kantarawaddy Times Before the 2021 military coup, Dahlia was a second-year English major student at Loikaw University. At the same time, she was also studying...

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