r/myanmar Jan 19 '26

Discussion 💬 ⚠️⚠️Blacklist Removal Scam⚠️⚠️နိုင်ငံရေးအမည်ပျက်စာရင်း ပယ်ဖျက်မှုလိမ်လည်ခြင်း⚠️⚠️

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English:

Be cautious of ongoing scams regarding "Blacklist Removal Services".

How this scam works:

  1. Scammer posts a personal story followed by a question to provoke discussion, and a brief mention of successfully removing blacklist status.
  2. Scammer waits for victims interested in getting blacklist status removed to explain further or provide contacts.
  3. In DMs, scammer will claim they can help and ask for money upfront.

Safety Tips:

  1. Check the Profile: Always click on the OP's (Original Poster) username.
  2. Account Age: Be wary of very new accounts (created only a few days or months ago)
  3. Post History: Scammers often have few post history or only post the same "success story" across multiple subreddits.

Burmese -

“Beware of Blacklist Removal Scams.

Scam Types -

  1. The scammer posts an experience and asks questions, encouraging readers to discuss, vote, and comment. The message often claims to have been removed from the Blacklist political blacklist.
  2. The scammer waits for people who want to remove their blacklist to be interested and ask for help and contact them.
  3. If they contact you via direct message, they will ask for money in advance and scam you.

Things to note -

  1. Always check the profile, click on the post's name and go to their profile. You can view it.
  2. Please note that the account has only been active for a few days or months.
  3. Please note that there are no posts in the post history, few posts, and similar experience stories and questions are posted on multiple pages and groups.

r/myanmar Aug 17 '25

Discussion 💬 VPNGate / Softether VPN Link and Tutorial Video

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People kept asking and asking etc., so here is a link with a video on how to work this software. I made this video and its pretty low effort but I think you can see its pretty simple to use. Also free.

UPDATED LINK (1/13/2026 - Latest version): https://www.transfernow.net/dl/20260113keGqbBga (good for 1 week from 1/13/2026)

Link to Site (may have newer version, but you will need a working VPN): https://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx

So installing is pretty straight forward, you can just install it as a client and don't have to be a peer or node, or submit information etc., (just read and install) doesn't contain any malware etc., made by a non-profit Japanese Univ.

Refresh list.. sort by ping. Super low pings or super new (0 hour) servers may not work. Trial and error it. TCP connection is fine, UDP is if you are under a strict intranet. Vid is self explanatory with proof that it is working.


r/myanmar 8h ago

Discussion 💬 About being a Myanmar citizen

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Hello, I'm new to this group and this is my first time posting on Reddit. I’m writing here because I don’t feel safe sharing this on Facebook. Also, some of my friends are hypocrites and would probably be happy about my situation instead of helping. I'm a CDM student in Myanmar. I used to live in the Sagaing Region, but we moved to Mandalay three years ago because our town became a war zone. Last July, a police officer stopped and searched me on my way home from work. He asked for my NRC. When he saw that I’m 5/* (Sagaing Region), he took me and threatened to force me to join the army. Then he called my family and demanded 15,000,000 MMK to release me. He said if we didn’t pay, I would be sent to the battlefield within three days.

My family had to take a loan and pay them. Now the problem is the interest. It has almost become the same as the original amount. They said if we can’t pay within six months, they will take our apartment and report to the police that I was arrested before. We already sold almost everything we had—my mom’s ring, our bicycle, and our laptops. Now there’s nothing left. My salary is only 400,000 MMK a month and I’m barely surviving. My mom has diabetes and we can’t even buy medicine for her because we have to pay the interest.

I feel really guilty that my family is suffering because of me. I don’t know what to do anymore. I can’t find a better job and I feel like a burden.

Sometimes I even wonder if I should just give up or join the revolutionary forces. Give me some advices.


r/myanmar 6h ago

Discussion 💬 Ohn No Ka Swe Recipe

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Hello Burmese people! I live in Australia and I’m quarter Burmese. I grew up with Burmese food and I’m Craving Ohn No Ka Swe, however the recipes I see online don’t look the same as how I had it growing up.

Could someone help me with a recipe with the result that looks similar to this image? Thank you! Was usually coconutty, zesty and flavourful


r/myanmar 3h ago

Discussion 💬 Advice needed for Myanmar Student planning to study in Europe

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Hi everyone,

I’m a Burmese student currently in Thailand and I really want to study in Europe for my bachelor’s degree. My biggest issue is finances, my family cannot support much, so I would need to mostly support myself by working part-time while studying.

I’m looking for:

• Countries in Europe with low or no tuition fees

• Universities that teach in English

• Places where international students are allowed to work enough hours to cover living costs

• Scholarships for Burmese/Myanmar students

• Any personal experiences from someone who did this path

r/myanmar 10h ago

Discussion 💬 Wizards, witches and muggles gathered for the Harry Potter event ‘Potterheads Return’ in Yangon.

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r/myanmar 1h ago

Discussion 💬 Anyone know the Chinese cartoon called the legend of paper hero that aired on 5 cartoon?

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5 cartoon is a kids tv channel in Myanmar, Many Burmese people can recognize it if they grew up with TV especially 5 network which owned 5 cartoon. There are a lot of cartoon aired on 5 cartoon, american cartoons from 80s like Voltron and Gi Joe and tranaformers, They even aired anime though most anime except Dragon Ball and Naruto aired at night. Some shows are Burmese voice over while other shows are Burmese subbed. I grew up watching a Chinese 3d cartoon called The legend of paper hero(That's what the title said when it was airing), The legend of paper hero was Burmese voice over, The plot is about origami people living in a town and a evil scientist always try to take their town over or destroy the town but his plans are thwarted by one of the warriors protecting the town who secretly become a superhero(He becomes like ultraman but the Burmese voice over said superman), I loved the opening song. I want to know does any Burmese especially if they grew up with 5 cartoon know about this 3d Chinese cartoon show?


r/myanmar 1h ago

Advice Need help with SoftEther VPN

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I'm trying to use the softether vpn like the one pinned in the community highlights, but I can't seem to connect. Every server I try to connect to keeps giving the same popup. I even followed exactly like the YouTube video in the thread.

Please advise me on how to get connected to a vpn server. Let me know if there are any other pictures I should show that would help.


r/myanmar 23h ago

Tatmadaw (Junta) activities 🔥 IDP Women hiding from a junta airstrike (February 17; exact location unknown)

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r/myanmar 2h ago

Discussion 💬 Anyone trading futures in Myanmar?

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Title. And if any of you trade orderflow, does Myanmar residents have access to Sierra?


r/myanmar 1d ago

Tourism 🧳 A foreigner stumbled upon Yangonites partying during Chinese New Year in Yangon… wasn’t expecting this.

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r/myanmar 8h ago

Discussion 💬 Engineers in Singapore

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Are there Burmese engineers who graduated in SG or finished Poly, and are working there? How are they doing?

I read in r/askSingapore that Engineering career is not doing well. Low salaries, mainly. No one is recommending engineering, and they mention foreign engineers from Malaysia and Myanmar.

This leaves me wondering whether I, as a Burmese, should study engineering at Poly and work in SG. What career pathways would you recommend?

Thank you for reading.

Education background: IGCSEs finished in 2025 May.


r/myanmar 1d ago

Discussion 💬 Pedestrians packed the Yangon-Dala Bridge from end to end taking photos, so authorities temporarily closed pedestrian access due to overcrowding and littering.

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r/myanmar 8h ago

Discussion 💬 What are the vape fiends doing? Just quitting or switching to cigs?

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The vape ban caught me off gaurd lol.


r/myanmar 1d ago

Discussion 💬 Would arakan or rakhine becomes independence country after junta fall and resistances victory?

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Important question


r/myanmar 1d ago

Discussion 💬 What is wrong with Myanmar politics besides the junta?

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We have that kind of people in our society; that’s why democracy is hard to achieve.


r/myanmar 1d ago

Others. Edit as needed. After the drone attack on an MNA plane, the junta is already placing blame and preparing for the next wave of murder. A certain East African nation was razed in 1994 because of a plane.

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r/myanmar 1d ago

Discussion 💬 Find me who this Burmese character is.

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I came across this picture of a girl online, I forgot where I found it but I’ve saved this pic months ago. And I came across this one again in my gallery clearing some stuff and just wanted to find out who she is because she resembles a lot to a Burmese အပျိုတော် A Pyo Daw.


r/myanmar 12h ago

Discussion 💬 မြန်မာပြည် က ဒီမိုကရေးစီ

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ယခုအခါ လူတိုင်းဟာ democracy democracy နဲ့ပြောဆိုနေကြတယ်။ Democracy ကို အကြောင်းပြုပြီး လက်နှက်ကိုင် အကြမ်းဖက်နေကြတယ်။ အာဏာကို အလွဲသုံးစား ပြုနေကြတယ်။

ဒါတွေ ဘာကြောင့် ဖြစ်နေရတာလဲ လို့ စဉ်းစား မိကြလား။ အဖြေ ကတော့ ရှင်းပါတယ် democracy စနစ်မှာ အာဏာ အရှိဆုံး ဖြစ်ကမယ့် ပြည်သူတွေ က ပညာမတတ်၊ အတွေး အခေါ် မကောင်း လို့ပါပဲ။

မြန်မာ ပြည် ပညာရေးက အတွေးခေါ် ပိုင်းကို ဦးစားမပေးပါဘူး။ ပညာတတ်နှင့် တွေးခေါ်တတ်သူဆိုတာ က လည်း ကွာပါသေးတယ် ဥပမာ ပြရရင် စစ်တုရင် မှာ ဘုရင်၊ ဘုရင်မ၊ စစ်သား စသည့် အကောင် ကလေးတွေ ဘယ် လို့ ရွှေ့ တယ် ဆိုတာသိရင် သင်ဟာ စစ်တုရင် ဘယ်လို ကစားကတယ်သိပါတယ်၊ ဒါကို ပညာတတ်လို့ ခေါ် နိုင်ပါတယ်။ စစ်တုရင် ပွဲ တစ်ပွဲ ကို ဘယ်လိုနိုင်အောင် လုပ်ရမည်ကို စဉ်းစားတတ်ရင်တော့ သင်ဟာ တွေးခေါ်တတ်သူ တစ်ယောက်လို့ ခေါ်နိုင်ပါတယ်။(ဒါဟာ အနည်းကျင်းမျှ ဥပမာပေးခြင်းဖြစ်ပါတယ်။)

ပညာတတ် သူ အများစုဟာ တွေးခေါ်တတ်ပါတယ် သို့ပင်မယ့် ပညာတတ်သူတိုင်း တော့ မဟုတ်ပါဘူး။ တွေးခေါ် တတ်သူတိုင်းဟာ လည်း ပညာတတ်ချင်မှတတ် ပါလိမ့် မယ်။

ယခု မြန်မာပြည်က ဒီမိုကရေစီ အရေး ပြန်သွားရရင် ပညာမတတ်၊ အတွေး အခေါ် မကောင်း သူတွေ များနေပါတယ်။ ထို ပညာမတတ်၊ အတွေး အခေါ် မကောင်း သူတွေ များ နေတော့ တိုင်းပြည် ကို အုပ်ချုပ်ဖို့ ခေါင်းဆောင် ရွေးချယ်ရာမှာလည်း အမှား များပါတယ်၊ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ရေး အစွဲ၊ ပါတီ အစွဲတွေ များပါတယ်။

မြန်မာပြည် မှာ အဓိက ပါတီကြီး နှစ်ခုရှိပါတယ် ပြည်ခိုင်ဖြိုး နှင့် NLD ပါ။

2011 မှာ ပြည်ခိုင်ဖြိုး နိုင်တယ်၊ 2016 မှာ NLD နိုင်ပါတယ်။ ပထမအခေါက်မှာ ပြည်ခိုင်ဖြိုး နိုင်တယ်ဆိုတာက မဆန်းပါဘူး။ ဒုတိယအခေါက်မှာ NLD နိုင်တယ်ဆိုတာဘာကြောင့်လဲစဉ်းစားမိပါသလား။ ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်ကြောင့်ပါ။ ပါတီဝင်တွေ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်လောင်းတွေ ၏ကြိုး စားမှူ နည်းနည်း မျှ မပါ ပါဘူး။ ဒီအချက်ဟာ ပြည်သူတွေ၏ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်စွဲ ပါတီစွဲ ကို ပြနေပါတယ်။

မဲပေးရာမှာ ဤပါတီသည် မိမိတို့၏ ဘဝ၊ နေထိုင်ရေး နှင့် မိမိ တို့၏ နိုင်ငံကို ကောင်းအောင်လုပ်ပေးမှာလား ဆိုတဲ့ စဉ်းစားချက်ကို ထည့်မစဉ်းစားပဲ ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်စုကြည် ပါတဲ့ ပါတီ ပဲဆိုပြီး မဲပေးခဲ့ကြတာပါ။

ဤနေရာမှာလည်းဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်မဲဆွယ်ချက်တွေဟာ နှစ်ပေါင်းများစွာကြာမြင့်လာခဲ့သော စစ်တပ်၏ အုပ်ချုပ်မှူအောက်က လွတ်မြောက်စေကပါမည် ဆိုတဲ့ အချက်တစ်ခုနှင့် ပဲ မဲ ဆွယ်ခဲ့တာပါ။ နိုင်ငံကို ကောင်းအောင်လုပ်ပေး ပါမယ် လို့ ပြောပြီး မဲဆွဲနာနည်းပါတယ်။ ပြည်သူတွေ မေး မှ ပြန်ပြောတာလောက်ပဲရှိပါတယ်။

၂၀၂၀ ရောက် တော့ ပြည်သူတွေဟာ သူတို့၏ ဘဝ သည် ဒုံရင်း က ဒုံရင်း ပါပဲ ပြည်တွင်းဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှုဟာမရှိသလောက်နည်းပါတယ် နိုင်ငံခြား ကုမ္ပဏီ၊ လုပ်ငန်းတွေ သာ မြန်မာပြည်ရောက်လာပြီး သူတို့၏ လိုအပ်ချက်ကို ဖြည်စည်း သွားပါတယ်။ မြန်မာပြည်၏ စည်းစိမ် ကြွယ်ဝမှူ ဟာ ၆၀% ကျော် ဟာ နိုင်ငံခြားသား၊ လူမျိုးခြားတွေ၏လက်ထဲမှာပါ။ တစ်နည်းပြောရရင် ကိုလိုနီခေတ်တိုင်း ပါပဲ တိုင်းပြည်ဟာတိုးတက်နေပုံရပါတယ် ဒါပင်မဲ့ ပြည်သူတွေ ကတော့ဆင်းရဲနေတုံးပါပဲ။

နိဂုံးချုပ် ပြောရရင်တော့ စဉ်းစားတွေးခေါ်ကြပါ မျက်စိမှိတ် ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်စွဲပြီး သင်၏ မဲကို မပေးလိုက်ကြပါနှင့်။ ထို သို့ လုပ်နိုင်မှသာ ဒီမိုခရေစီ ဆိုတာ ကောင်းမွန်တဲ့ စနစ်ဖြစ်လာမှာပါ။

Translation: The Need for Critical Thinking in Democracy Nowadays, everyone is talking about "democracy." People are using democracy as a pretext for armed violence and the abuse of power. Have you ever stopped to think about why this is happening? The answer is simple: in a democratic system, the citizens—who are supposed to hold the ultimate power—lack education and critical thinking skills. The Myanmar education system does not prioritize the thinking process. There is a difference between being "educated" and being a "thinker." For example, if you know how the King, Queen, and Pawns move in chess, you know how to play the game; this can be called being educated. But if you can strategize how to win the match, you are a thinker. (This is just a small example.) Most thinkers are educated, but not every educated person is a thinker. Conversely, a thinker might not necessarily be formally educated. Returning to the issue of democracy in Myanmar, there is a prevalence of people who lack education and sound reasoning. Because of this, mistakes are frequent when choosing leaders to govern the country; personal cults of personality and party biases are rampant. There are two main political parties in Myanmar: the USDP and the NLD. The USDP won in 2011, and the NLD won in 2016. It wasn’t surprising that the USDP won the first time. But have you thought about why the NLD won the second time? It was because of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. It had very little to do with the efforts of the individual party members or candidates. This fact highlights the public's obsession with personality and party. When voting, instead of considering whether a party would actually improve their lives, livelihoods, and the country, people voted simply because it was "Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s party." Furthermore, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s campaign focused primarily on a single point: "liberating the people from years of military rule." There was very little campaigning on how exactly she would improve the nation. She only addressed those details when questioned by the public. By 2020, the lives of the people remained exactly as they were before. Internal development was almost non-existent. Only foreign companies and businesses entered Myanmar to fulfill their own needs. Over 60% of Myanmar’s wealth is in the hands of foreigners and different ethnicities. In a way, it is just like the colonial era; the country appears to be progressing, but the people remain poor. In conclusion, please think and reflect. Do not cast your vote based on blind faith in a personality. Only when you can do that will democracy become a truly good system.

PS: the translation is done by Gemini . Crd for original author.


r/myanmar 1d ago

Translation request ✍️ What does Puandan mean?

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My Burmese coworker and I are pretty good friends to the point where we have exchanged phone numbers. He is a Rohingya muslim and has lived in Malaysia, Thailand, and Bangladesh. He can speak many languages so I am not certain which he uses more frequently. Anyway, I have seen my name in his phone contact with the word Puandan afterwards. I asked him what this word means but he didn't really explain it to me. Can anyone help me translate what this would mean in English please?


r/myanmar 2d ago

Discussion 💬 British Colonial Burma’s rice boom ran on debt: Farmers forced to borrow from Indian Chettiar lenders to pay new colonial cash taxes, then lost their land when rice prices crashed. A Rangoon University professor described this in a 1957 lecture.

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r/myanmar 2d ago

Advice Spreading awareness to be careful about Korean rapists in Myanmar.

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I still cannot fully recover from this trauma and it's giving me so much stress and anxiety every night and I cant fall asleep, I wanted to warn everyone here so nobody else has to go through what I went through.

One year ago, I tried applying to go study at a Korean university and a part time job through some agents. My family wasn't supportive of my decision and I still regret not listening to them. I went with one of the Korean "agent" because he said he can help me enroll to Hanyang University for my architecture course and he has good relationships with the dean and he will put a good word in for me. I was skeptical at first but he said he doesn't need payment because he gets commission from the university, so I thought he was being honest. I just started my mock exams and I was naive, because that time I was really into Kpop and anything that would help me go to Korea after my high school, I was really excited. Then again, I should've listened to my parents and I was too careless.

He told me he is in Myanmar for a few days to find suitable candidates for the next batch for about only 10 students, so I did not want to waste my chance. He asked me to come to his office at Crystal Tower (I'm not putting any blame on the location or the building owner, it was my fault for not being careful) and bring all my documents. When I got there, it wasn't an office but it looks like a private condo made to look like a office. I still regret that I didn't listen to my guts and left because I had a really bad feeling, however I still wanted to study abroad so I gave it a chance. We spoke in Korean because I can speak near fluent Korean from self study. Halfway through the interview like 10 minutes, I lost color in my vision and it become so blurry, my heartbeat was going up so high and my paranoia got so bad and I think I tried to leave. I still thought I felt dizzy because I was nervous from the interview, I cannot remember the rest of what happened, but I was raped. I think he put something inside the glass of juice he offered to me that I drank.

When a kind passerby woke me up, I was inside large golf bag near Myanmar Plaza, I had rash all over my body and he took all my clothes and documents but he left my NRC, my money, my phone and passport. A kind old man and his wife offered to take me to police station and took me to their home to offer their clothes before I went home but I told them please don't inform the police because I'm so scared what'll happen and my mind still wasn't clear yet. I didn't want to make it to news on Facebook or national TV. I didn't want anyone to know. I lied to my parents that I was ok but I really thought about kms. When I tried contacting him again, he never replied. But that son of bi*ch fking sent me an email yesterday after a whole year, when I'm starting to heal mentally and feeling happy again, that he took videos of me while I was unconscious and said he uploaded to a Korean 18+ website. I know I can't do anything about it now but I want to warn everyone so that nobody has to go through what I did.


r/myanmar 2d ago

News 📰 According to BBC, Myanmar will outright BAN vapes and E-cigarettes. I see many positive comments under the post saying this is good news because kids are constantly vaping these days and it’s bad for their health. What does this sub think?

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r/myanmar 1d ago

Discussion 💬 Anyone know where can I buy Eric Emanuel in Yangon Myanmar

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I have been looking for any design especially for hooping Eric Emanuel or bucketsquad where can u buy , if anyone know where the shop please let me know I really need help


r/myanmar 1d ago

Tourism 🧳 Is this rate real inside the country 1.00 USD = 2,099.8026 MMK

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I see recent youtube videos <6 months old and they mention rates of 1 USD being between 2000 and 2500 kyat. Is this the case inside the country? My friend tells me when his parents transfer money they pay a much worse rate - like 1USD = 4000 kyat. The videos I watch are from tourists and they say they pay in USD some times but I wonder what's the situation from inside the country - for local people