Story Archive
2019-10-31
Soldiers reportedly stabbed and beat two of escapees during interrogations.
2019-10-31
War hurts farming, fishing, border trade, and tourism, the pillars of the Rakhine economy.
2019-10-30
Critics see another blow to freedom of expression in a country struggling to shed its dictatorial past.
2019-10-29
Allies say her comments to the Japanese press were unhelpful in achieving a key electoral pledge.
2019-10-28
Dramatic air attack on AA motorboats in Rakhine state killed an unknown number of abductees.
2019-10-27
The AA cites the example of a deadly attack by the three-army Northern Alliance in August in Shan state that killed 15 people.
2019-10-24
Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s army, does not deny report’s claims, but says it is working to prevent rights abuses.
2019-10-22
Military says it killed nine AA while sustaining only minor injuries, but AA says it killed 3 dozen with only two casualties.
2019-10-21
But conditions must be made safe for their return, and rights as citizens established, Rohingya refugees say.
2019-10-21
Dhaka plans to relocate about 3,000 people from Cox’s Bazar camps early next month.
2019-10-18
They are accused of raising funds to support the ethnic Arakan Army in its fight against Myanmar government forces.
2019-10-17
General Aung San, father of Aung San Suu Kyi, is not widely celebrated by minorities.
2019-10-17
Officials say a power-short part of Shan state gets more electricity thanks to the mine.
2019-10-16
Locals suspect they were planning to extort money from fellow Chinese in the Myanmar-China border area.
2019-10-15
Firefighters suspected of being government soldiers are kidnapped, while police assigned to Rakhine are resigning.
2019-10-14
The soldier said he was sick of seeing Rakhine civilians abused, but the army dismisses his claims as propaganda.
2019-10-11
Others who live in displacement camps inside Rakhine state say conditions have not improved.
2019-10-11
Once bustling wholesale center now empty, as Chinese restrictions have killed demand for agricultural products.
2019-10-10
The Kunming-Mandalay high-speed railway is part of China’s showcase Belt and Road Initiative.
2019-10-09
Rakhine state reports civilian deaths in the ongoing war between the Arakan Army and government military.
2019-10-04
The raids follow earlier ones that left two traffickers dead and bagged millions of methamphetamines.
2019-10-04
An additional eight youths detained last month were placed in juvenile detention.
2019-10-03
The foreign ministry called China’s proposal ‘one-sided,’ but did not say why the refugees could not visit.
2019-10-02
A rights group says rights violations by ethnic militias in northern Shan state increased in recent months.
2019-10-02
Huawei is providing communications networks to about one-third of Myanmar’s population of more than 53 million.
2019-10-01
Illicit maritime crossings through the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea have resumed after a two-year lapse, UNHCR says.
2019-10-01
The mining company learned of local government decision to scrap surveys from Facebook, while villagers fear the project will go ahead anyway.
2019-10-01
The government military says the Arakan Army launched an attack, forcing it to strike back.
