Story Archive
2019-08-15
Rebels fire heavy guns at a military academy in retaliation for government army campaigns.
2019-08-13
Relatives, local politicians fear the detainees face threat of torture by the feared government military.
2019-08-12
Many residents, poor to begin with, have lost everything, and more rainfall is forecast for Mon state.
2019-08-09
State legislator Hla Thein Aung has been turned away twice while trying to enter the conflict area.
2019-08-09
Six of the individuals were deported from Singapore for fund-raising activities.
2019-08-08
The warring armies disagree over the number of soldiers killed and injured.
2019-08-08
Officials say the trade has been wiped out, but visits to local markets in Mongla proves otherwise.
2019-08-07
The displaced Shan and Palaung residents of Tangyan township seek shelter in Buddhist monasteries.
2019-08-07
The bodies of the two stabbed men are found in a river in Kyauktaw township.
2019-08-07
The visitors manhandle jade and wooden carvings and do not follow hotel rules, they say.
2019-08-06
Legislator Khin Maung Latt says more than 5,000 children living in displacement camps lack access to education.
2019-08-05
Their report says that arms and equipment sold to Myanmar's military have been used to commit 'gross violations of human rights.'
2019-08-05
Many villagers seek temporary shelter in displacement camps where relief supplies are limited.
2019-08-02
Mahathir Mohamad’s remarks violate ASEAN non-interference principles, the government says.
2019-08-02
The army detains a second motorcyclist for violating a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
2019-08-01
The ethnic Khumi villagers from Chin state were detained after an armed clash in February.
2019-07-31
A Rakhine state lawmaker says soldiers used ‘excessive’ force when they shot Ye Lin Naing.
2019-07-31
The report says national forces and several ethnic armies still recruited children in 2018.
2019-07-30
Firebrand monk Wirathu’s group has a history of inflammatory anti-Muslim statements.
2019-07-29
Myanmar officials, Rohingya refugee leaders fail to iron out differences after talks in Cox’s Bazar.
2019-07-29
His family rejects the Myanmar military's claim that the Plan International worker carried a grenade on his motorcycle.
2019-07-26
The incident is the third armed assault on police outposts amid fighting between rebel forces and government soldiers.
2019-07-26
Visit comes amid controversy over U.N. envoy Christine Schraner-Burgener’s statements.
2019-07-24
Bo Than Tun was traveling by boat when assailants believed to be soldiers fired on him and others.
2019-07-23
The Arakan Army accuses the government military of a war crime for fires in Kyaukmaw Paik Seik village.
2019-07-23
The support contrasts with popular opposition to dams and plantations in other parts of Myanmar.
2019-07-22
Prosecutors did not hold formal talks with refugees, camp leaders said.
2019-07-22
Money has been transferred using “hawala” system to a avoid paper trail, counter-terror chief says.
2019-07-22
The government-ordered internet suspension in parts of Rakhine and Chin states has lasted a month.
2019-07-18
“So the crime was completed, if I can put it that way, in Bangladesh,” chief delegate says.
