The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

International Labour Organization says Southeast Asian country’s labour market remains fragile after tumultuous year.

Yangon (AFP) - Almost a year after she knelt in the dust to beg Myanmar police not to shoot anti-coup demonstrators, Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng still shakes at the memory of the day she says God saved her.

Yangon (AFP) - Hours before Myanmar's new parliament was due to convene last February, troops rounded up lawmakers in dawn raids, ending a brief democratic interlude and setting the stage for months of bloodshed.

Yangon (AFP) - Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has racked up a total of 33 years in jail as her trials in a junta-controlled court come to a close, with the country's military once again transforming the democracy figurehead into a political prisoner.

Popa langur found living in an extinct volcano in Myanmar among 224 new species listed by the World Wildlife Fund.

Instead of looking for news, some journalists in post-coup Myanmar are looking after the cosmetics and clothes that they now sell for a living. Those who have stuck to news scrape by with slashed salaries if they are lucky enough, while some even work without being paid. Others have fled…

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Australia’s Woodside Petroleum says it is withdrawing from projects in strife-torn Myanmar, following a similar decision by Total and Chevron

An army patrol seized 200,000 methamphetamine pills and 750 grammes of heroin in drink bottles abandoned by armed men following a brief clash near the Myanmar border in Mae Ai district of Chiang Mai early Wednesday night.

Sydney (AFP) - Australian energy firm Woodside announced its withdrawal from junta-run Myanmar on Thursday, the latest company to head for the exit following a military coup last year.

The company has been under intense pressure over its involvement in a major deepwater gas development, and said it could "no longer contemplate" projects in the country due to the ongoing situation.