Story Archive
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.
2018-04-06
Min Sign of the civil society group Nang Shani is being held in prison on charges of violating the country’s Unlawful Associations Act.
2018-04-06
Survivors told authorities five others died during their 20-day ordeal.
2018-04-06
The social welfare minister says that some Rohingya refugees who applied for repatriation have not completed application forms correctly.
2018-04-05
None will be forced to go, though, Bangladesh's commissioner in charge of refugee relief and repatriation says.
2018-04-05
The Kachin Independence Army says it will launch attacks on the Myanmar army in the Hakawng valley on April 10.
2018-04-04
UN officials have been vocal critics of Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims.
2018-04-03
Refugees were turned over to immigration department because the lacked proper documents.
2018-04-03
Myo Nyunt, a spokesman for Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy party discusses the government’s controversial policy toward civil society groups.
2018-04-02
In Malaysia, officials step up marine patrols to intercept boat believed to be carrying Rohingya.
