Story Archive
2019-01-31
Top military leader says he has already agreed to amend the charter when the time is right.
2019-01-31
With a shrapnel injury to his head, the boy died in transit to Yangon for emergency treatment.
2019-01-30
A minister floats the idea of downsizing or relocating the $3.6 billion Myitsone Dam, suspended since 2011.
2019-01-30
Discussions among legislators on amendments will likely begin in February.
2019-01-29
Military MPs oppose the measure put forward by the ruling party and boycott the vote.
2019-01-28
Rescue personnel try to free two other trapped workers.
2019-01-28
Residents of Ohn Chaung village accuse government soldiers of taking cash, jewelry, and cell phones.
2019-01-25
The accused groups fault the army for tensions and say they don’t trust conditional peace offers.
2019-01-25
Technical, humanitarian and security assessments of Bhashan Char are needed, special rapporteur says.
2019-01-24
‘Terrorists’ from neighboring Bangladesh fire shots across the border, a spokesman for the military’s Western Command says.
2019-01-23
Christine Schraner Burgener also calls for restraint in government military’s conflict with Arakan Army.
2019-01-23
The nearly four dozen workers say brokers promised them good wages at the site in Yunnan province.
2019-01-22
Officials charged 31 with illegal infiltration after they spent days trapped in no-man’s land.
2019-01-22
Civilians displaced by armed conflict want ‘solid guarantee’ that they will be safe once they return home.
2019-01-18
The military says Aung San Suu Kyi has ordered troops to 'crush' the AA 'effectively and quickly.'
2019-01-17
At least one pair of newcomers said they left India out of fear of being deported to Myanmar.
2019-01-17
Those guilty of recruiting or deploying children are being demoted and sent to military or civilian prisons.
2019-01-17
The Arakan Army denies that government soldiers captured one of its camps, calling the announcement ‘fake news.’
2019-01-16
Fighting between government forces and the Arakan Army prompts village heads to submit resignations and schools to close.
2019-01-15
Two others have been charged under the Unlawful Associations Act for alleged contact with Arakan Army forces.
2019-01-11
Observers say that the decision shows that the judiciary lacks independence from the government.
2019-01-09
Dhaka slams Myanmar for saying that Rohingya and Arakan rebel groups are operating in Bangladesh.
2019-01-09
Prominent Rakhine residents and ordinary citizens in the western state are riled up over statements about the Arakan Army.
2019-01-08
Fruit dealers rely on the Muse-Ruili passage to export their produce to China’s Yunnan province.
2019-01-08
The ethnic army also objects to a government spokesman’s warning for supporters not to back the organization.
2019-01-07
Rakhine politicians, however, call on the central government to heed local concerns in the strife-torn region.
2019-01-04
The attacks by the Arakan Army on the country's Independence Day are the latest act of violence to hit the restive state.
2019-01-03
KNU criticism comes as fighting involving different ethnic armies displaces hundreds in remote corners of the country.
2019-01-03
The group is the second small batch of Rohingya Muslims expelled by India since October 2018.
2019-01-02
The Arakan Army denies it carried out a failed mine attack on the Rakhine chief minister’s convoy.
