Story Archive
2020-04-24
Reconstruction budget gives detailed account of villages’ losses in March 22 air and artillery attacks.
2020-04-23
Civilian deaths mount amid tit-for-tat fighting and Myanmar Army retaliation on villages.
2020-04-23
Officials say two trawlers stranded in the Bay of Bengal with hundreds of refugees are not welcome.
2020-04-23
The capital Laukkai can quarantine about 600, but thousands have poured in since April 1.
2020-04-22
Amnesty International calls on Bengali government to rescue the refugees and for other countries to assist.
2020-04-22
‘My son didn’t know anything about the AA,’ says the victim’s father.
2020-04-21
HRW sees ‘travesty’ in shooting of local employee Pyae Sone Win Maung while he transported COVID-19 samples.
2020-04-20
A village administrator is among nearly 40 men held for questioning before 33 are released.
2020-04-17
Excluded from the presidential amnesty are two prominent Rakhine politicians convicted of high treason.
2020-04-17
Government soldiers fire in response to mine attacks by the rebel Arakan Army.
2020-04-16
‘We are going to work just for the benefit of many people, but we are at risk of infection,’ says one doctor.
2020-04-16
Dozens died during the failed 58-day journey to enter Malaysia.
2020-04-15
Thar Loon Zaung Htet, editor in chief of Khit Thit news agency, and Khine Myat Kyaw, editor in chief of Narinjara news agency, were charged last month.
2020-04-15
Temples and streets are mostly empty, as stay-at-home regulations are largely heeded.
2020-04-14
Gatherings went on weeks after the Yangon government banned them to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
2020-04-13
A bereaved villager says the army targeted civilians deliberately and unprovokedly.
2020-04-13
Truckers from Myanmar are reluctant to hand over their keys to Chinese drivers for cross-border trips.
2020-04-10
The traders must pay Chinese drivers to transport cargo from the border to local cargo facilities.
2020-04-10
Police intensify patrols around refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar to block entry without permission.
2020-04-09
The local government official caught the virus from his nurse wife and died after two days in intensive care.
2020-04-09
Editor-in-chief Nay Myo Lin was arrested March 31 for the publication of an interview with an AA spokesman.
2020-04-08
Myanmar teenager Sangha Maung discusses what it’s like being a young migrant worker in Thailand.
2020-04-08
Eight homes burned down in clash that added 180 people to the region’s displaced population.
2020-04-08
Sagaing region and Kayah state ease strict controls to allow movement, business.
2020-04-07
'Because they must work daily to survive, we can’t lock down the camp, although we want to,' says one camp leader.
2020-04-07
Local administrators, lawmakers, and NGOs are working to build 500 living quarters for them.
2020-04-06
With little money, they are receiving some food from local groups and have asked the government for help.
2020-04-03
The economic pain of the pathogen bites in Myanmar, Laos, and other neighbors.
2020-04-02
Kyauktaw township sees biggest increase of IDPs in Rakhine, where the IDP ranks have grown to nearly 160,000.
2020-04-02
Thai police arrest and later release 300 migrant workers who run afoul of a do-not-travel order.
