Story Archive
2017-06-30
State lawmakers call for more security in villages surrounding Maungdaw town to prevent further attacks.
2017-06-30
Meanwhile, journalists enlist civil society in a campaign to repeal the law he is charged under.
2017-06-29
The foreign ministry orders embassies not to grant entry visas for the UN mission charged with investigating army atrocities following the October 2016 attacks by militants.
2017-06-29
More than 60 domestic and international organizations want the government to abolish Article 66(d) or decriminalize defamation.
2017-06-28
The three reporters will go on trial on July 10 for covering an event organized by an ethnic militia.
2017-06-27
The reporters are being detained for ‘having connections’ to an ethnic armed group considered by the state to be a terrorist organization.
2017-06-27
State parliament speaker calls on lawmakers and the Rakhine government to work together to ensure the area’s safety.
2017-06-26
Police fire on migrant workers after they beat security officers and destroy machinery at the Wakyae jade mine.
2017-06-26
The journalists are arrested as they return from a narcotics-burning event held by the Ta’ang National Liberation Organization.
2017-06-23
Chinese bank officials say they are working on reopening the accounts of those found not to be involved in illegal activities.
2017-06-23
Kyaw Min Swe, editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper The Voice Daily, awaits his next court date on June 30.
2017-06-22
They are solidifying their ties to the United Wa State Army, the country’s largest nonstate armed forces.
2017-06-22
Two are shot dead, while a third man is killed during a struggle with a soldier who stepped on his head.
2017-06-21
The group says that clashes between the national military and Kachin Independence Army could harm the peace process.
2017-06-21
Officials recommend collaborative efforts; Amnesty International seeks protection, legal status for refugees.
2017-06-20
Three groups disagree with the government’s nationwide peace pact as the way forward in the country’s peace process.
2017-06-20
The town’s district administrator tells Chinese authorities to unfreeze the accounts of those not engaged in illegal activities.
2017-06-19
They claim the accounts are illegal and tied to funds from drug dealing and gambling.
2017-06-16
‘British Ko Ko Maung’ is let go, while his editor remains in jail awaiting trial on defamation charges.
2017-06-16
Hostilities rage between the Myanmar military and Kachin Independence Army the day after the deadline for a civilian evacuation order.
2017-06-16
Report to parliament in Dhaka comes after Indonesia-based think-tank reveals existence of new insurgent group.
2017-06-15
A village administrator says the three insulted him in a Facebook post.
2017-06-14
New hostilities force workers from the Tanaing gold and amber mining region to return to their hometowns in other parts of the country.
2017-06-13
Authorities say they will continue tearing down the shacks to make way for a residential project.
2017-06-12
The move is the first forced eviction under the administration of de facto national leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
2017-06-08
Lawyers for the detained pair say courts are bending the law by not allowing their clients to post bail.
2017-06-07
The national army drops fliers from a helicopter warning those living in the region to evacuate the area before a clearing operation on June 15.
2017-06-06
They form a committee to demand that the government abolish a law used by those in power to sue them for defamation.
2017-06-05
General Than Htut says 36 ethnic villages have already been built in restive Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships.
2017-06-02
They are part of a group of 50 residents of Thaketa township who gathered to pray in front of an Islamic school closed by local authorities in April.
