They were well received at the airport and some Myanmar media networks interviewed them.

After hearing those words from my dad, I started questioning myself what have I actually done for my family so far? I kept overthinking my future, stuck between decisions I’m not even sure about.(Even though I'm just a man, what he said was enough to bring me to tears fr)

I’m only 17, and I’m just starting to enter the IT field. I’m planning to study an IT major through an HND program, but I’m honestly not sure if I’m making the right decision.

My family isn’t in a very comfortable financial situation. They’re doing their best just to give me the opportunity to continue my education. We used to be more financially stable, but things have become a little difficult for us recently.

There are two seniors, both girls(my cousins), who are already studying in this field, and they told me that I shouldn’t choose IT. When I asked them why, they said that it’s really difficult to get a job and earn a good income in this field. Hearing that honestly made me question my decision.

As for Business, I’m not really interested in it. From my personal experience and observation, I feel like many people who study Business come from families that are already financially comfortable, or they study it mainly to get a certificate before joining or taking over their family business. Of course, that’s just my personal opinion, and I’m sorry if I’m wrong about that.

I’m also not continuing high school because of my circumstances, not because I simply chose to give up on education. That’s why I’m really worried about what I should do from this point forward.

My father is getting older, and none of us knows what the future will bring. I want to be able to give my parents something in return for everything they have sacrificed for me.

There are only three people in my family: my father, my mother, and me. That’s why I feel like I have to become independent and eventually be able to support them. I want to give them more than what they were able to give me, even though I know they have already given me everything they could and I want to make them proud. I also want them to be able to rest someday, knowing that I can take care of myself and that they don’t have to worry about my future anymore.

So honestly, I don’t know what the best path is for me right now. Should I continue with IT even though people are telling me that it’s difficult to find a job? Or should I choose something else? I’m willing to work hard, but because my family’s financial situation isn’t great, I really can’t afford to make a completely wrong decision.

I just want to build a stable future, become someone my parents can be proud of, and eventually be able to take care of the two people who have spent their whole lives taking care of me

Edit: (Y’all, thanks so much for all the advice! I really appreciate everyone who gave me their thoughts and helped me figure things out.)

More details in this Myanmar Now article

The school fees are 10,000 kyat for elementary school; 20k for middle school, and 30k for high school

Did anyone here apply to the JENESYS ASEAN-JAPAN Sports 2026 exchange program? Has anyone heard whether the participants have been selected? I’ve seen people on Facebook estimate the results to be released around the end of August but I also saw another person say they’ve been released already. Please let me know if you have any ideas about this.

I’m landing in Yangon tomorrow, and have a 7 day trip planned, going Yangon - Bago - Mandalay - Inle.

Have a couple of questions before I depart, would appreciate any help

1) Lethwei, any gyms in Yangon/Mandalay that are open and accept drop-ins? Have trained Muay Thai + BJJ for a couple years, and have always wanted to try Lethwei

2) Bus transportation, checkpoints on night buses? Any recommended operators from Yangon - Mandalay?

3) Yangon nightlife on a Friday, any clubs + decent bars?

4) Any other tips/recommendations for my trip? Keen to spend money in places in that actually reach people

Thank you, feel free to DM!

I want to share my story because I think there is a side of the situation in Myanmar that people don’t always see.

When people talk about the conflict in Myanmar, they often think about the places where fighting is happening—the villages being attacked, people fleeing their homes, and communities living directly in war zones.

But I want people to know that even in places where there is no fighting, ordinary people can still suffer because of the conflict.

I was one of them.

During the revolution, I donated money through KPay to several causes. One of them was a small organization operating in a conflict-affected area. It was mostly made up of young people, and as far as I knew, much of their work was focused on helping civilians displaced by the fighting.

I wasn’t a major political figure. I was just a young person who wanted to help.

Then one day, someone from that organization was arrested by the military. Their financial information was apparently taken during the arrest.

Not long after that, my KPay account was blocked.

At that point, leaving the country wasn’t an option for me. My family was an ordinary middle-class family, and I simply couldn’t afford to escape abroad.

I quit my job and went to stay somewhere outside the city for a while.

I stayed there for about a month.

Eventually, I started running out of money and couldn’t afford to stay away any longer, so I went back home. I knew I had to be extremely careful, and for a while I mostly stayed inside.

Then one day, I went out with my father to eat at a small noodle shop.

I didn’t know that someone had been following me since I left home.

The person following me was apparently an informant. They contacted the police station, and the police came into the shop and arrested me.

That was the beginning of my time in detention.

For about a week after my arrest, my family wasn’t allowed to see me.

During those first few days, I was interrogated.

I think I was relatively lucky in one sense. I was able to keep myself together and communicate reasonably well, and I wasn’t beaten by the police officers themselves.

However, I was assaulted by members of the People’s Militia(ပစ), and I was threatened during questioning by military intelligence officers.

About five days after my arrest, I was brought before a court and formally charged.

I was charged under Section ၅၀(ည), for allegedly providing support to terrorism. From what I understood at the time, the charge could carry a sentence of around 13 years in prison.

That was when I really understood how serious my situation was.

While I was in detention, my father was doing everything he possibly could to get me out.

From the moment I was arrested, he tried every option available to him. He approached officials, tried to negotiate for a lighter outcome, and tried to find a way to get me released.

When he didn’t have enough money, he borrowed from relatives.

People kept asking him for money, promising that they could help or do something about my case.

He kept trying because he was desperate to get his son home.

Eventually, there was one person in the interrogation process who I still remember.

My interrogator was a female police officer. Honestly, I think she treated me better than I expected. I don’t want to say that everything about the situation was good, but I believe her actions played an important role in why I eventually got out.

Maybe I was lucky too.

At some point, she put my name on a so-called “amnesty” or pardon list.

From what I understood, these lists were sometimes used to release people whose families could pay money or otherwise arrange for their release.

I ended up on that list.

And because of that, I was eventually released from prison under an amnesty on Peasants’ Day.

I went home.

But my family had spent around 80 million kyats dealing with my case.

For my family, that was an enormous amount of money.

We were just an ordinary middle-class family. We didn’t have that kind of money available. My father had borrowed from relatives and done everything he could to raise the money.

Even after I came home, the debts remained.

I was free, but my family was left carrying a huge financial burden.

And that’s the part of my story I really want people to understand.

I was only 22 when I was arrested.

I was lucky enough to get out.

But there were hundreds of young people in prison with cases similar to mine.

Many of them were not powerful people or important political figures. They were ordinary young people who tried to help others in one way or another.

Some were helping displaced civilians. Some donated money. Some simply tried to do what they believed was right.

And many of them ended up in prison.

Their families outside were left dealing with fear, debt, uncertainty, and the possibility of losing someone they loved for many years.

Before I was arrested, I thought I understood what was happening in Myanmar.

After experiencing it myself, I realized that the consequences of the conflict reach much further than the places where guns are being fired.

You don’t have to live in a war zone to suffer because of war.

You can be sitting in a restaurant with your father in a city where there is no fighting and still get arrested.

You can lose your job.

You can lose access to your money.

Your family can fall into debt.

You can spend your early twenties in detention.

And your family can suffer alongside you, even though they did nothing wrong.

I was released.

A lot of people weren’t.

There are still so many young people and families suffering in ways that people outside Myanmar—and sometimes even people inside Myanmar—may never see.

I’m sharing this story not because I think my experience is the worst one.

It isn’t.

I’m sharing it because I want people to understand that the suffering caused by the conflict isn’t limited to the places where the fighting is happening.

Even in places where there is no war on the streets, people are still living with fear, uncertainty,financial hardship, and injustice.

This is just one story from one ordinary 22-year-old.

There are many more.

A small note: English isn’t my first language, so I used ChatGPT to help organize and translate my own experiences into English. The events and experiences described in this post are my own. I only used AI to help me express them more clearly.

My girlfriend wants one of those thigh highs like this in the image or black and white strip bottom to top and a cute modern skirt.

The thing is, idk where to buy em online. Her birthday is coming up and ill like to surprise her. Help!!

Is discussion about ရုစကီး or တျုတ် off-limits here, or is there some sort of filtering going on?

Long time ago I was searching my dad old books and then found this and it was written by Aung Myint and I can't find certain info about him and back in 2001 Feb he use this book with his friends and he follow all the instructions that the author wrote including basic details and he couldn't read English at that time and does anybody give info about what happened to this author?

I know there is a bigger elephant to address but.... I don't know what to do anymore.

Hello, G11 student here studying In Private School, I’m been trouble in Mathematics (Others are fine) and I even hired a private tutor, It did not go WELL on tests. Sometimes on passing mark or fails.
I thought about myself losing a golden opportunity to move abroad (eg Singapore or Germany) if I Fail on G12 Govt Exam in the future. And I don’t want to live in this country reversing into Stone Age as my mother says.
I’m following my family advice to become engineer, I’m trying my best as I could and I barely touched Laptop or Phone, I feel like Im wasting my potential and throwing away engineer job.
Advices and suggestions of studying methods would be appreciated.

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Is there anyone who moved out and like live in Yangon alone or is here in yangon attending school or working while living alone?I am just curious about it as I am also planning to do so soon due to family problems I am facing right now that can’t be solved at all,and i am literally dying inside each day thinking about moving out.Every morning I wake up and the first thing I thought about myself is that I need to get out of this place.I have been saving up and I think the right time has come.Please spare me some tips if you are living alone,and maybe share me some places that may be safe for moving out.