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May 31, 2021
Myanmar's junta has handed out lengthy prison sentences to almost 30 people for torching Chinese-owned factories, state media said. Myanmar has been...
May 25, 2021
An American editor of a Myanmar-based news outlet was detained by authorities in Yangon Monday as he attempted to board a flight out of the coup-hit...
May 25, 2021
Dozens of Myanmar security force members were killed Sunday, rebel fighters said, after heavy fighting in the coup-hit country's eastern fringe...
Soldiers stand guard as they block a road near a prison in Naypyidaw on February 15, 2021, after the military seized power in a coup. Photo: AFP
May 22, 2021
As Myanmar’s military continues a crackdown on protesters and rebel groups fighting its February coup, Facebook posts surfaced claiming that a major...
Photo: A person holds a mobile phone showing a video of soldiers looking out from a truck in Yangon. Photo: AFP
May 20, 2021
In the months before the Myanmar military’s February 1 coup, the country’s telecom and internet service providers were ordered to install intercept...
May 20, 2021
The UN on Tuesday appealed for $943 million to cope with the Rohingya humanitarian crisis, fearing that a Covid outbreak in South Asia could reach...
May 17, 2021
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday is set to consider a draft non-binding resolution calling for "an immediate suspension" of the transfer of weapons...
Photo: Protesters hold up banners and the three-finger salute during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon on May 14, 2021. Photo: AFP
May 17, 2021
Beaten, kicked in the groin and threatened with sexual violence - a young Myanmar teenager detained by the junta's security forces has described the...
Some monks have this year defied religious edicts against political activity (Photo: AFP)
May 14, 2021
Myanmar's Buddhist monk-hood led an earlier struggle against military rule but is split on the coup that ended the country's nascent democracy, with...
May 13, 2021
Min Nyo, 51, a correspondent for Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) was sentenced Wednesday by a military court to three years in prison for his...
Photo: (File) A medical worker wearing PPE (Personal protective equipment) attends to a patient at COVID-19 ICU (Intensive care unit) of Yangon General Hospital, in Yangon, Myanmar, 16 January 2021. - EPA
May 12, 2021
Myanmar reported 11 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the tally in the country to 142, 974, according to a release from the Ministry of Health and...
May 7, 2021
The Myanmar junta added a ban on satellite television to existing restrictions on the internet and media, tightening its grip over information in the...