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World Published 27 Apr, 2022 10:35am

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi handed 5 year jail term for corruption

Charges carry combined jail terms of nearly 190 years; Ex-leader guilty of accepting gold, cash bribes; Suu Kyi allies dismiss ruling, say junta rule won't last

World Published 17 Apr, 2022 12:34pm

Myanmar’s janta to release 1,600 prisoners to mark Buddhist new year

The country grants an annual amnesty to thousands of inmates

World Published 07 Apr, 2022 11:49am

Smuggled sketches offer glimpses into harsh Myanmar prison

Interviews with eight former prisoners offer a rare glimpse inside the country's most notorious jail..

World Published 27 Mar, 2022 02:28pm

Myanmar army says will 'annihilate' coup opponents on crackdown anniversary

Army chief says Min Aung Hlaing military will 'no longer negotiate...'

World Published 24 Mar, 2022 02:52pm

Myanmar 'special command' authorised lethal attacks on civilians

A special command is responsible for deployment, operation of troops in urban areas

World Published 07 Feb, 2022 11:46am

Fearing junta, hundreds of Myanmar parents disown dissident children

By Wa Lone Every day for the last three months, an average of six or seven families in Myanmar have posted notices...

World Published 01 Feb, 2022 12:22pm

Myanmar activists vow to defy junta with strike on coup anniversary

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ahead of the coup anniversary urged the junta to allow greater humanitarian access

World Published 28 Jan, 2022 03:19pm

The Myanmar nun who faced down a junta

Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng still shakes at the memory of the day she says God saved her

World Published 10 Jan, 2022 10:51am

Myanmar's Suu Kyi hit with new convictions, jail term

The junta sentences her to four years in prison

World Published 04 Jan, 2022 06:39pm

Thousands of Rohingya shops demolished, Bangladesh confirms

About 850,000 members of Rohingya are packed into overcrowded displacement camps in Bangladesh

World Published 25 Dec, 2021 04:52pm

More than 30 killed, bodies burnt in Myanmar’s Kayah state

Military says it had shot and killed an unspecified number of ‘terrorists with weapons’ from the opposition armed forces in the village

World Published 24 Dec, 2021 06:30pm

Myanmar airstrikes displace more people along Thai-Myanmar border

The Karen National Union says the military launched at least two airstrikes and fired some artillery rounds

World Updated 06 Dec, 2021 12:49pm

Myanmar's ousted leader Suu Kyi gets four-year jail term in trial

President Win Myint got the same jail sentence in the first verdicts against the former leaders

World Published 05 Dec, 2021 06:45pm

Five dead after Myanmar security forces ram car into protest - media

Anti-military protests are continuing despite the killing of more than 1,300 people since the Feb. 1 coup...

World Published 29 Oct, 2021 10:15pm

Dozens of homes destroyed in Myanmar shelling: reports

Myanmar troops on Friday shelled a restive western town, with an ensuing fire destroying dozens of houses.

World Published 31 Jul, 2021 03:51pm

Protests, accusations against Myanmar junta ahead of coup anniversary

Small groups of students protested against Myanmar's military junta on Saturday in Mandalay and a human rights group...

Life & Style Published 17 Jul, 2021 03:53pm

Photographer Danish Siddiqui captured the people behind the story

Danish Siddiqui, the Reuters journalist killed in crossfire on Friday covering the war in Afghanistan, was a largely...

World Published 07 Jul, 2021 08:46pm

UN rights expert calls for sanctions on Myanmar's oil and gas sector

U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said that no state had imposed any...

World Published 04 Jul, 2021 07:27pm

At least 25 killed in Myanmar clashes between army, anti-junta fighters

In some areas civilians have formed "defence forces" to combat the State Administration Council, as the...

World Published 03 Jul, 2021 11:27am

Myanmar protesters burn junta leader's images on his birthday

Protesters burned mock coffins and pictures of Myanmar's army ruler Min Aung Hlaing on Saturday in the latest...

World Published 22 Jun, 2021 10:43pm

Myanmar militias vow to take on army after city firefight

People's defence forces have sprung up across the Southeast Asian country to take on...

World Published 21 Jun, 2021 09:33pm

EU slaps fresh sanctions on Myanmar junta

Campaign groups welcomed the latest EU and UK sanctions. Anna Roberts, executive director of the...

World Published 10 Jun, 2021 10:54am

Military plane crashes near Myanmar's Mandalay, killing 12 - fire service

A military plane crashed on Thursday near Myanmar's second-biggest city of Mandalay, killing 12 people, the city's...

World Published 17 May, 2021 11:33am

UN General Assembly to consider call for Myanmar arms embargo

UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly on Tuesday is set to consider a draft non-binding resolution calling for "an...

World Published 12 Apr, 2021 02:47pm

Myanmar's detained Suu Kyi asks court to meet her lawyers

The leader of Myanmar's ousted government, Aung San Suu Kyi, asked a court on Monday to be allowed to meet her...

World Published 10 Apr, 2021 11:17am

Myanmar junta refuses UN envoy visit

NAYPYIDAW, (Myanmar): Myanmar’s junta refused on Friday to let a UN envoy visit the country, despite mounting...