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Entry #56 OSINT World Series
1. Open Data Portals
Central Statistical Organization of Myanmar — Official national statistics, publications, indicators, surveys, and the National Strategy for Development of Statistics.
Myanmar Statistical Information Service — MMSIS — Searchable official statistical database covering demographic, economic, social, trade, and administrative indicators.
Department of Population — Data and Maps — Census tables, population estimates, thematic maps, township information, and demographic publications.
2024 Myanmar Population and Housing Census — Union Report — Official census publication and supporting demographic tables.
Myanmar Information Management Unit — MIMU — One of the most important sources for humanitarian, development, administrative, demographic, infrastructure, and assessment data.
MIMU Datasets on the Humanitarian Data Exchange — Downloadable datasets in spreadsheet and GIS-compatible formats.
Open Development Myanmar — Data Hub — Open datasets concerning land, natural resources, infrastructure, economy, governance, and development.
World Bank — Myanmar Data — Development indicators, economic series, population statistics, and downloadable country data.
Myanmar National Trade Portal — Trade Data and Charts — Official import, export, tariff, commodity, and trading-partner information.
UN Comtrade — Bilateral merchandise-trade records searchable by Myanmar, partner country, commodity code, year, and trade flow.
FAOSTAT — Agricultural production, land use, food security, forestry, livestock, and commodity data.
ILOSTAT — Myanmar Country Profile — Employment, labour-force, wage, occupation, and working-condition indicators.
Online Burma/Myanmar Library — Large searchable collection of full-text documents, laws, reports, periodicals, historical records, and archived publications.
National Library of Myanmar — National publications, bibliographic resources, manuscripts, reference services, and research enquiries.
2. Company Registries
MyCO Company Search — Official company-registry search for entity names, registration numbers, status, addresses, officers, and available filings.
Directorate of Investment and Company Administration — DICA — Official authority for company administration, corporate registration, investment rules, notifications, and forms.
Myanmar Investment Directory — Directory of investment opportunities, projects, sectors, and businesses.
OpenCorporates — Myanmar Companies — Aggregated company records useful for name normalization and cross-border corporate research. Verify findings against MyCO.
Yangon Stock Exchange — Listed-company announcements, annual reports, financial statements, share information, and pre-listing-board disclosures.
Securities and Exchange Commission of Myanmar — Capital-market rules, public-company supervision, securities companies, annual reports, and regulatory announcements.
MyanTrade Exporter Directory — Searchable directory of Myanmar exporters and their products.
Myanmar National Trade Portal — Authorized Traders — Official lists of businesses authorized for specified trade activities.
Central Bank of Myanmar — Lists and notices relating to banks, finance companies, non-bank financial institutions, payment providers, and mobile financial services.
Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry — UMFCCI — Chamber information, affiliated trade associations, events, and business-network leads.
Myanmar Yellow Pages — Commercial business directory searchable by company name, category, product, and location.
3. Land & Property Records
Note: As of writing of this post, there’s no nationwide public website that allows unrestricted searches of legal land ownership by parcel or owner in Myanmar. The official starting point is the Settlement and Land Records Department, with GIS platforms and local administrative records used as supporting sources. Commercial property listings are leads, not evidence of legal title.
Settlement and Land Records Department — SLRD — Official department responsible for land records, cadastral maps, land statistics, surveying, and deed-registration functions.
OneMap Myanmar — The initiative to integrate spatial information concerning land, agriculture, forestry, concessions, and planning. Project Info
Myanmar LAMP Map Viewer — Interactive land, agriculture, environmental, and land-management mapping platform.
Myanmar National Land Cover Portal — Land-cover maps and supporting datasets for land-use and environmental analysis.
MIMU GIS Resources — Administrative boundaries, place codes, settlement data, base layers, GIS guidance, and mapping resources.
Online Burma/Myanmar Library — Land Portal — Laws, policies, academic research, reports, and historical documents concerning land ownership and land disputes.
iMyanmarHouse — Residential and commercial property listings useful for identifying brokers, developers, projects, and approximate market values.
ShweProperty — Property listings and developer information; use only as a commercial lead source.
4. Conflict Resources
ACLED — Myanmar — Conflict-event data, trend analysis, dashboards, and reporting on political violence and demonstrations.
ACLED Myanmar Dataset on HDX — Downloadable conflict-event data for mapping and quantitative analysis.
IISS Myanmar Conflict Map — Interactive map and dashboard covering armed actors, territorial developments, conflict incidents, and displacement.
Myanmar Witness — Verified open-source investigations into alleged human-rights violations, airstrikes, fires, attacks, and digital evidence.
Myanmar Witness — Map of Published Reports — Geographic index of Myanmar Witness investigations.
Myanmar Peace Monitor — Conflict monitoring, peace-process analysis, actor profiles, timelines, and regional reporting.
Uppsala Conflict Data Program — Myanmar — Academic conflict data on actors, organized violence, fatalities, and conflict history.
UCDP Download Center — Downloadable georeferenced events, conflict dyads, actors, and fatality datasets.
Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar — Analytical Reports — UN reports and evidence-related analysis concerning serious international crimes.
UN OCHA — Myanmar — Humanitarian situation updates, displacement information, response plans, and access reporting.
ReliefWeb — Myanmar — Aggregated UN, NGO, government, and humanitarian reports filterable by date, organization, disaster, and document type.
AAPP Myanmar Data Explorer — Documented arrests, detentions, deaths, and related incidents maintained by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. Treat individual-level records sensitively.
UNHCR — Myanmar Situation — Data and reports on internally displaced people, refugees, asylum seekers, and regional displacement.
IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix — Myanmar Products — Displacement, mobility, needs-assessment, and population-movement products.
OFAC Burma-Related Sanctions — Official US legal authorities, sanctions notices, and Burma-related program information.
OFAC Sanctions List Search — Fuzzy-name searching across US SDN and non-SDN sanctions lists, including entities, people, vessels, and aircraft.
UK Sanctions List Search — Search individuals, entities, addresses, identifiers, and specified ships subject to UK sanctions.
EU Sanctions Tracker — Myanmar/Burma — Searchable EU designations associated with the Myanmar/Burma sanctions regime.
5. Geospatial Data and Maps
MIMU Mapping and Spatial Data Catalogue — Central catalogue for Myanmar administrative maps, settlements, roads, facilities, hazards, and humanitarian layers.
MIMU GeoNode — Interactive maps and downloadable geospatial layers.
Myanmar Administrative Boundaries — HDX COD-AB — Humanitarian Common Operational Dataset for administrative boundaries and place codes.
OpenStreetMap Export — Roads, settlements, buildings, waterways, amenities, and community-mapped infrastructure.
Geofabrik — Myanmar OpenStreetMap Extracts — Downloadable
.pbf, shapefile, and related OSM extracts for Myanmar.Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Export Tool — Create custom downloadable OSM extracts by area and feature type.
Copernicus Browser — Sentinel satellite imagery, date comparison, spectral visualization, and imagery downloads.
NASA FIRMS Fire Map — Near-real-time thermal anomalies and fire detections useful for wildfire, village-fire, and conflict-event corroboration.
geoBoundaries — Open administrative-boundary datasets with multiple licensing and precision options.
GADM — Downloadable administrative boundaries for Myanmar and other countries.
Open Development Myanmar — Administrative Boundaries — Myanmar-specific boundary files and accompanying metadata.
6. Flight & Vessel Tracking
Note: Tracks may be delayed, filtered, incomplete, or absent when transponders are disabled or coverage is poor. Absence from an ADS-B or AIS platform is not proof that an aircraft or vessel was absent.
Flightradar24 — Myanmar Airports — Airport arrivals, departures, routes, aircraft details, and available flight history.
ADS-B Exchange — Global aircraft-position map with filtering by callsign, registration, altitude, aircraft type, and history where available.
FlightAware — Commercial, cargo, scheduled, and general-aviation tracking and airport information.
OpenSky Network — Research-oriented ADS-B data, aircraft states, flight information, and historical-data access.
Plane Finder — Live aircraft map, registration and callsign searches, route information, and available playback.
MarineTraffic — AIS vessel positions, port calls, voyage information, ownership leads, and vessel particulars.
VesselFinder — Port of Yangon — Yangon arrivals, departures, expected vessels, and port-call information.
Global Fishing Watch Map — Fishing activity, vessel presence, encounters, loitering, and maritime-behaviour analysis.
Myanma Port Authority — Official port notices, statistics, procedures, terminals, and maritime announcements.
Myanma Port Authority — Container Vessel Schedules — Published container-vessel schedules and port-arrival information.
Department of Marine Administration — Official maritime regulations, notices, registration information, and seafarer resources.
DMA Myanmar Online Services — Online maritime and seafarer-related verification services.
7. People Search
X Advanced Search — Public-post search by account, phrase, language, date range, and engagement.
MyCO Company Search — Useful for connecting individuals to registered companies, director positions, and corporate addresses.
Telegago — Search aid for publicly indexed Telegram channels and posts.
Sherlock — Username-presence checks across hundreds of websites; manually verify every match.
FamilySearch — Myanmar — Historical records, family trees, genealogy resources, and catalogue material.
MyanmarGenWeb — Community-maintained genealogy and historical-research links for Myanmar.
MyHeritage — Myanmar Records — Genealogy, historical records, and family-tree searches; account or payment may be required for some records.
Myanmar Medical Council — Professional and regulatory information useful when verifying medical affiliations or credentials.
Myanmar Yellow Pages — Search for publicly listed business contacts, proprietors, professionals, and organizations.
Public-page Google searches: Replace the placeholders with the person’s Latin-script name, Burmese-script name, known aliases, employer, or location.
site:gov.mm "Full Name" filetype:pdf
site:myco.dica.gov.mm "Full Name"
site:linkedin.com/in ("Full Name" OR "Name Variant") ("Myanmar" OR "Burma")
site:facebook.com ("Full Name" OR "Burmese-script name") ("Yangon" OR "Mandalay")
site:t.me ("Full Name" OR "Burmese-script name")
site:org.mm "Full Name"
"Full Name" ("director" OR "owner" OR "founder") ("Myanmar" OR "Burma")
("Full Name" OR "Burmese-script name") filetype:pdfAlso try alternative spellings, abbreviated names, honorifics, former organization names, and searches without spaces between transliterated name components.
8. Media Outlets
Governmental and state-run
Myanma Radio and Television — MRTV — State television and radio, official announcements, schedules, live streams, and government reporting.
Myanmar Digital News — State-operated digital news in English and Burmese.
Global New Light of Myanmar — English-language state newspaper and archive of official statements and daily reporting.
Myanmar International TV — English-language television and digital coverage connected to the state broadcasting system.
Domestic mainstream and commercial
Eleven Media Group — Domestic news, business, sport, opinion, and local reporting in English and Burmese.
Popular News Journal — Burmese-language domestic news, entertainment, business, and local reporting.
Voice of Myanmar — Burmese-language local news, interviews, photographs, and regional reporting.
Opposition and resistance-affiliated
National Unity Government — News — Official NUG statements, policy positions, announcements, and diplomatic reporting.
Public Voice Television — PVTV — Resistance-aligned video news and programming.
Radio NUG — NUG-affiliated radio and current-affairs programming.
Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw — CRPH — Statements, parliamentary material, and opposition-government information.
Independent, exile, or international media
Myanmar Now — Independent investigative and current-affairs reporting in English and Burmese.
The Irrawaddy — Myanmar politics, conflict, ethnic affairs, economy, and regional analysis.
Frontier Myanmar — Long-form reporting and analysis on politics, business, conflict, and development.
Democratic Voice of Burma — DVB — Independent daily news, video, documentaries, interviews, and exile-media reporting.
Mizzima — Independent news organization with English and Burmese reporting.
BBC News Burmese — International public-service reporting in Burmese across digital, audio, and video formats.
Radio Free Asia — Burmese — Burmese-language reporting on politics, conflict, human rights, and regional developments.
Ethnic and regional media
Burma News International — Network aggregating reporting from independent ethnic and regional media organizations.
Shan Herald Agency for News — Reporting focused on Shan State, ethnic politics, armed conflict, and border developments.
Karen News — Reporting on Karen communities, southeastern Myanmar, displacement, conflict, and human rights.
Narinjara News — Rakhine-focused reporting on conflict, politics, displacement, Bangladesh–Myanmar relations, and local affairs.
Investigative Media
Myanmar Now — Independent investigative and current-affairs reporting in English and Burmese.
The Irrawaddy — Myanmar politics, conflict, ethnic affairs, economy, and regional analysis.
Frontier Myanmar — Long-form reporting and analysis on politics, business, conflict, and development.
Justice For Myanmar (JFM) — Focused specifically on corporate and financial links to the military; produces detailed investigative reports rather than daily news; arguably more advocacy-research than journalism but frequently cited by international media.
Fortify Rights — Sits between investigative research and human rights documentation; not a news outlet but produces primary investigative material.
Myanmar Witness — open-source investigation and verification of conflict events; part of the Centre for Information Resilience.
9. Other Toolkits and Resources
GIJN Online Research Tools — Collection of research, verification, people-search, website-analysis, and investigative tools.
10. Miscellaneous
Myanmar Law Information System — Constitutions, Union laws, regional and state laws, subordinate legislation, treaties, legal translations, and historical legal periods.
OONI Explorer — Myanmar — Network measurements concerning website blocking, application interference, censorship, and internet outages.
Rabbit Zawgyi–Unicode Converter — Converts older Zawgyi-encoded Burmese text to Unicode and back, useful for searching older documents and websites.
UNECE UN/LOCODE Country Lists — Standardized codes for Myanmar ports, airports, border points, logistics locations, and administrative subdivisions.
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This is very good research. Very useful too. Thank you!