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December 22, 2025
South Korean lawmakers reject Myanmar junta’s sham election, urge...
December 20, 2025
Nine civilians killed as Myanmar junta intensifies airstrikes in Wetlet...
December 19, 2025
Myanmar junta arrests over 200 people under election protection law
January 21, 2019
First ever Rakhine investment festival to be held in Ngapali
An investment festival to attract investors for the development of Rakhine State will be held at Ngapali beach. This festival will be the first ever...
Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. Photo: EPA
January 21, 2019
UN rep voices concern over attacks, aid restrictions
The UN’s human rights expert on Myanmar expressed alarm at the escalating violence in northern and central Rakhine State and Chin State, and called...
(File) Myanmar boy wearing a white shirt (R), who was discharged from Myanmar army, loads a bag on his shoulder as he walks near a military man at a gate of military compound - 18 January 2014. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
January 18, 2019
More than 1,700 child soldiers reunited with their parents
More than 1,700 child soldiers in Myanmar have been reunited with their parents, and about 800 military officers and other army personnel who...
January 16, 2019
Myanmar military releases villagers arrested for contact with AA
A Myanmar solidier mans his station at the Goke Pi police outpost, in Buthidaung Township, northern Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 07 January 2019...
January 16, 2019
Hilton Expands Footprint in Myanmar
Hilton has announced the signing of a management agreement with Myanmar partners Crown Advanced Construction Co., Ltd to operate a 308-key hotel near...
January 15, 2019
FMI announces new company constitution and name change
First Myanmar Investment Public Company Limited (FMI) has announced that during its first Special General Meeting held at the National Theatre in...
January 15, 2019
Consul General of India lauds growing India-Myanmar ties
The visiting Consul General of India Mr Nandan Singh Bhaisora lauded the growing ties, trade and business links between India and Myanmar during the...
(File) Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, speaks during a press conference after she presented her report to the 37th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, 12 March 2018. Photo: Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA
January 14, 2019
UN Special Rapporteur refused entry to Myanmar
The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, will visit Myanmar’s neighbours Thailand and Bangladesh from 14 to...
Reuters journalist Wa Lone (C-L), 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo (C-R), 28, sit in the police truck as they leave the court after the verdict has postponed at Insein township court, Yangon, Myanmar, 27 August 2018. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
January 14, 2019
PEN says court decision on Reuters journalists ‘a travesty of justice’
NGO PEN America has expressed its alarm over the High Court decision to uphold the conviction of the seven-year prison sentences of the two Myanmar...
January 14, 2019
Rakhine State government bans NGO visits to conflict areas
A Myanmar border guard police officer mans his station at the Goke Pi police outpost, in Buthidaung Township, northern Rakhine State, western Myanmar...
January 10, 2019
Rakhine political parties to meet to discuss AA attacks
A Rakhine political party said Wednesday that it will hold a meeting in Rakhine state’s capital Sittwe to discuss a warning by a central government...
IDPs camp in Rakhine State. Photo: Aye Chan Khaing/Mizzima
January 10, 2019
Expenses for Rakhine IDPs will be taken from State Disaster Management Fund
Rakhine State government municipal minister Win Myint said that some money from the Rakhine State Disaster Management Fund would be spent on...