Story Archive
2020-07-31
Villagers say the unexploded ordnance was left behind by government soldiers.
2020-07-31
Tin Hlaing, chairwoman of the Rakhine State Election Subcommission, says military-run ministries will decide whether it is safe to hold balloting.
2020-07-30
Across the political spectrum, parties are boosting the ratio of female candidates in November.
2020-07-29
Civilians suspected of Arakan Army ties are routinely arrested and tortured, sometimes to death.
2020-07-28
A military analyst says seeking justice for the victim is more realistic than demanding troop withdrawals in a war zone.
2020-07-27
The military spokesman says shutting down the internet stops hate speech in the multiethnic region.
2020-07-24
The KIA has detained five fighters deemed responsible for the July 6 killings, a local politician said.
2020-07-23
Human Rights Watch says the police force is an ‘abusive security apparatus.’
2020-07-23
Rohingya fleeing atrocities in Myanmar's Rakhine state should be allowed the protections given to refugees, rights groups say.
2020-07-22
Rights groups say stiff-arming the UN over serious abuses in Rakhine hasn’t helped the country’s case.
2020-07-21
The war-torn country is trying to meet obligations under the UN children’s rights treaty.
2020-07-21
The Kayan women lost their jobs selling crafts with the collapse of Thailand’s tourism sector.
2020-07-20
An ethnic Karen rebel group says the killing violates a nationwide cease-fire pact.
2020-07-20
AA leaders point to the historic Arakan kingdom as well as to other ethnic-run enclaves in Myanmar.
2020-07-17
The prospectors say that grinding poverty has driven them to scour for remnants of the gemstone in Kachin state.
2020-07-16
Residents say they left because they feared atrocities by government soldiers.
2020-07-16
Local people do not trust Chinese firms and associate mines with pollution and loss of farmland.
2020-07-15
The southern part of Rakhine state, relatively quiet since conflict erupted in late 2018, is seeing detentions rise.
2020-07-13
They say the members did not speak with them about a deadly landslide in Hpakant.
2020-07-13
The villager has accused three soldiers of abducting and raping her.
2020-07-10
Anger over villager’s death follows days of clashes that displaced hundreds.
2020-07-09
Rohingya were allowed to vote and contest in 2010 elections, but the right was taken from them several years later.
2020-07-09
Myanmar’s newest war zone joins many parts of a country riddled with mines from decades of war.
2020-07-09
Advocates for desperate miners say only systemic reform will stop tragic deaths.
2020-07-08
The rights group says a ‘relentless pattern of violations’ merits UN Security Council action.
2020-07-07
The jade-mining center of Hpakant is in a lawless conflict zone that has resisted supervision.
2020-07-07
Cries of newborn grandchild alerted patrolling soldiers to women hiding in a bomb shelter.
2020-07-06
Police Brigadier General Zaw Moe Than faces up to three years in prison under the Myanmar Police Force Maintenance of Discipline Law.
2020-07-03
Some 20,000 ethnic Rakhines from southern Ratheduang township swell the ranks of the displaced.
2020-07-02
Rescue crews struggle in “lake of mud” at a site of frequently deadly accidents.
