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"The previous eight were arrested for collecting donations for flood relief. The two others were detained because they refused to collect the bodies of deceased junta soldiers after a clash near the Three Pagodas Pass. Last night, I heard that an abbot was also arrested, but I don't know the exact details," she explained.

India has invited political and military opponents of Myanmar's ruling junta to attend a seminar in New Delhi, sources said, a significant move by the South Asian power that has maintained ties with the top generals shunned by Western nations.

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), a leading force in the Operation 1027 anti-regime offensive, has announced that it will not cooperate militarily or politically with National Unity Government (NUG).

A Myanmar junta aircraft began raining down bombs on residential wards in Hsipaw town, northern Shan State, on Monday amid intense clashes with the ethnic Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA).

The ethnic army said a Harbin Y-12 plane dropped over 50 bombs on TNLA-controlled wards in Hsipaw on Tuesday morning alone, killing one resident and burning houses.

The death toll from massive flooding in Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi has doubled to 226, as the UN warned as many as 630,000 people could be in need of help.

Yagi swept across northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar more than a week ago with powerful winds and an enormous amount of rain, triggering floods and landslides that have killed more than 500 people, according to official figures.