Story Archive
2018-04-30
Fifteen diplomats hold talks on the security situation in Rakhine state with Myanmar’s military commander-in-chief.
2018-04-30
Fighting between the Kachin Independence Army and Myanmar military has forced thousands to flee their homes.
2018-04-29
“We are not closing our eyes” but there is “no magic solution,” Russian diplomat says.
2018-04-27
Residents from 20 villages flee fighting between the government army and Kachin Independence Army in Injanyang township.
2018-04-26
They say the pair should never have been arrested, amid claims they were entrapped by police.
2018-04-25
Instead, they tell the relatives of Police Captain Moe Yan Naing that he is being detained ‘in a safe place.’
2018-04-25
They want the Security Council to hold the country’s army accountable for war crimes in Kachin state.
2018-04-25
China, Vietnam, Laos, and North Korea meanwhile hold rankings near the bottom of the list, unchanged from last year.
2018-04-24
The main opposition parties and others say the move is ‘dangerous for the country.’
2018-04-24
Derek Mitchell, former U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar, says the government could have handled some aspects of its initiative to end civil wars ‘a little better.’
2018-04-24
Small numbers have migrated because of dire poverty in the southeastern region of Bangladesh.
2018-04-23
Authorities evict the family of Police Captain Moe Yan Naing a day after he testified that two detained Reuters reporters were set up.
2018-04-20
Captain Moe Yan Naing testifies that police Brigadier General Tin Ko Ko ordered officers to entrap the two reporters.
2018-04-19
A Catholic aid worker says expectant and nursing mothers, as well as many elderly villagers, are among those stranded in a war zone.
2018-04-19
But Rohingyas maintain that they shouldn’t need the cards, because their forefathers were citizens.
2018-04-18
A government spokesman calls victims’ testimony that they were raped by the army a 'baseless accusation.'
2018-04-18
Seven agencies are tracking possible ARSA activities at refugee camps in Bangladesh, police source says.
2018-04-18
The Kachin Women’s Peace Network says families hiding in the jungles of Tanaing township are in need of food.
2018-04-17
New president Win Myint grants amnesty to prisoners and reiterates his main priorities for the coming year.
2018-04-13
An ICC prosecutor seeks ruling on whether the violent expulsion of Muslim minority falls under the court’s jurisdiction.
2018-04-13
But conditions in Myanmar “are not yet conducive for returns to be safe, dignified, and sustainable,” UNHCR says.
2018-04-13
Roughly 600 residents have sought temporary shelter inside a school.
2018-04-12
Six missing residents from Aytulay village are feared to have been taken away by soldiers.
2018-04-12
Saimiun Rahman allegedly engaged in terrorist activities in Bangladesh and India, agency says.
2018-04-12
Myint Thu of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs discusses Social Welfare Minister Win Myat Aye’s trip to Bangladesh.
2018-04-11
The decision comes a day after the army sentenced seven soldiers to prison for the killings of Rohingya civilians that the journalists had documented.
2018-04-11
Refugees reject sympathy, assurances offered by visiting officials.
2018-04-10
Robert San Aung has taken up the case of Aung Ko Htway who was sentenced in March to two years of hard labor for incitement.
2018-04-09
A spokesman for the ethnic armed group says soldiers only conducted surprise searches for illicit drugs.
2018-04-09
Community leader Saw O Moo was a member of a group providing food and medicine to villagers displaced by fighting.
