The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

Myanmar's Military Junta Leader Becomes Interim President

Learn about Myanmar's military junta leader taking over as interim president amid civil war and humanitarian crisis, with 18.6 million people in urgent nee...

Top News · Jul 22, 2024

The leader of Myanmar's army government is named acting president so he can renew state of emergency

Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the head of Myanmar’s military-government, has also taken the position of acting president to replace the holder of that post, who was unable to perform his duties due to health problems

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2024

Myanmar's Education System Under Attack Amid Civil War

Civil war in Myanmar leads to attacks on schools, disrupting education for millions. Urgent intervention needed to safeguard youth's well-being.

Top News · Jul 20, 2024

Couple murdered at their Pattaya restaurant

An Iranian man and his Thai wife were found murdered at their Iranian restaurant in Pattaya on Tuesday, and the prime suspect is a missing Myanmar employee.

Bangkok Post · Jul 17, 2024

Gender apartheid: oppression of women should be made a crime against humanity – feminist academic explains why

Crimes against humanity are occurring with impunity around the globe; from Myanmar to Sudan, Ukraine and elsewhere. And yet, unlike international treaties for the crimes of genocide, torture, apartheid and forced disappearances, there isn’t a treaty specific to crimes against humanity.

The Conversation · Jul 15, 2024

New players emerge in fighting in Myanmar's northeast, as powerful ethnic militias intervene

Recently renewed combat in northeastern Myanmar between troops of the military government and ethnic minority militias has in the past few days become more complicated, as two minority groups not previously involved in the fighting stepped into the fray

The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2024

Brickbat: Too High

Myanmar's military government has arrested Hiroshi Kasamatsu, an executive with a Japanese supermarket chain with several stores in the country, for selling rice above the maximum price set by the government. In total, the government arrested 62 people for selling rice above the official price. Kasamatsu and 10 others face…

Reason · Jul 10, 2024

'This Poor, Miserable Life': New Myanmar Clashes Turn Town To Rubble

Residents of Kyaukme in northern Myanmar are counting their dead and picking through rubble following fresh fighting that shredded a Beijing-brokered ceasefire between the junta and an alliance of armed ethnic groups.

International Business Times · Jul 9, 2024

Fierce fighting breaks out as militias launch new attacks against regime in Myanmar's civil war

New fighting has broken out in northeastern Myanmar, bringing an end to a Chinese-brokered cease-fire and putting pressure on the military regime as it faces attacks from resistance forces on multiple fronts in the country’s civil war

The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2024

Anti-coup forces allege Myanmar military using banned, restricted weapons

Calls for investigation grow as fighters from multiple states allege military using weapons such as white phosphorous.

Al Jazeera · Jul 2, 2024