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June 28, 2021
The court has yet to decide whether it will issue an indictment against ex- Arakan State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu, charged under Section 505 (b) of...
Protesters make the three-finger salute as they take part in a demonstration against the military coup and mark the birthday of Myanmar's detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon on June 19, 2021. Photo: AFP
June 28, 2021
Violence in post-coup Myanmar has escalated as anti-junta 'self-defence' forces step up to take on the military, a report said Monday, warning of an...
June 28, 2021
The new battleground for Myanmar’s hearts and minds lies in the classroom. At the beginning of this month, schools opened for the new school year...
June 28, 2021
Myanmar authorities torched over half a billion dollars worth of narcotics across the country Saturday, sending opium, heroin and methamphetamine up...
June 28, 2021
Two local fishermen out on the banks of the Irrawaddy River, south of Ywa Haung Kone, Lay Ein Tan Village Tract, Myingyan Township, Mandalay Region,...
June 28, 2021
The United Nations humanitarian agency says an estimated 230,000 people have been displaced by violence and fighting in Myanmar this year and are in...
June 28, 2021
Eight human rights groups have called on the international community to take action on behalf of victims of torture by the Myanmar military, using...
June 28, 2021
As more and more cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Arakan State, parents are worried about their children’s health, according to students’...
June 28, 2021
Ko Kyaw Than Hlaing, a former chairperson of the Arakan Social Association-Japan (ASAJ), was arrested at Yangon International Airport on Friday upon...
June 28, 2021
Kachin displaced by conflict wants the Tatmadaw to stop attacking them in northern Burma after a shell landed in their internally displaced persons (...
June 26, 2021
Villagers found about 80 unexploded artilleries near Nga/San Baw village in Rathedaung Township in Rakhine State. Forty unexploded ordnance shells...
June 26, 2021
A nineteen-year-old woman died a day after soldiers shot her and a friend when they drove by a government building where the military is staying...