2025 in Myanmar

This is a list of important events that happened in Myanmar in 2025.

• 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:
  • Soe Win
  • Mya Tun Oo
  • Tin Aung San
  • Win Shein

• 1 January –
  • National Unity Government releases 169 prisoners to commemorate the new year.
  • 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.
  • The junta passes a new cybersecurity law which criminalises unauthorised VPN usage and running of unsanctioned online gambling businesses.
• 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.
• 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.
• 8 January – At least 40 people are killed in a Tatmadaw airstrike on the village of Kyauk Ni Maw in Ramree Island, Rakhine State.
• 13 January – At least 12 people are killed in a landslide in Hpakant, Kachin State.
• 16 January – Nay Soe Maung, son-in-law of former military dictator Than Shwe, is sentenced to three years in prison for criticizing the junta.
• 20 January – China announces that it had brokered a ceasefire agreement between the junta and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA).
• 26 January – The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the People's Defence Force (PDF) capture Bhamo Airport and the Tatmadaw Armored Battalion 7006 base.

• 5 February – The Thai government stops the supply of electricity to several Burmese towns along the border with Thailand that are known to host scam operations.
• 14 February –
  • A court in Argentina, acting on a petition from the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK and citing the principle of universal jurisdiction, issues arrest warrants against junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, former president Htin Kyaw, and former state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on charges of "genocide and crimes against humanity" against the Rohingyas.
  • Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, a Catholic priest based in Shwebo Township, Sagaing Region, is fatally stabbed by rebels in a church compound in Kan Gyi Taw village, in what is believed to be the first targeted killing of Catholic clergy in the Myanmar civil war (2021–present).

• 4 March – A Buddhist monk accused of collaborating with the Tatmadaw is killed along with a disciple by resistance groups at a monastery in Pekon Township, Shan State.
• 14 March –
  • At least 27 people are reported to have been killed in a Tatmadaw airstrike in Let Pan Hla village in Singu Township, Mandalay Division.
  • The World Food Programme announces food aid cuts for over 1 million people in Myanmar due to funding shortages.
• 18 March — Ataullah abu Ammar Jununi, the leader of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, is arrested in Bangladesh.
• 28 March — A magnitude 7.7 earthquake hits near Mandalay, killing at least 3,770 people.

• 17 April – The junta grants amnesty to 4,900 prisoners in commemoration of Thingyan.
• 22 April – The Tatmadaw retakes Lashio following the MNDAA's withdrawal.
• 23 April – Five people are killed in a Tatmadaw airstrike near Tabayin.

• December (earliest) – Next Myanmar general election

• Myanmar civil war (2021–present)

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• 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

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