The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

Myanmar Enters Fourth Year Of Post-coup Crisis

Myanmar on Thursday enters its fourth year since a coup snuffed out a short-lived dance with democracy, with the embattled junta warning it will do "whatever it takes" to crush opposition to its rule.

International Business Times · Feb 1, 2024

Sanctions for banks, businesses linked to Myanmar junta

Australia has imposed targeted financial sanctions against two banks and three jet fuel suppliers with links to the Myanmar military junta.

AAP · Jan 31, 2024

Finding light in Myanmar’s darkness

India should balance its friendly ties with the military government while broadening the space for engagement with other stakeholders. At the same time, it must not interfere in Myanmar’s internal affairs

The Hindu · Jan 31, 2024

Myanmar Junta Takes Heavy Hits Three Years After Coup

One morning last October as the dawn light touched the cold hills of northern Myanmar a barrage of rockets and drones streaked through the sky and slammed into dugouts and bases housing military troops.

International Business Times · Jan 31, 2024

Myanmar’s NUG says anti-coup forces ‘edging closer’ to defeating generals

Three years after 2021 coup, the resistance says it is gaining strength and taking territory from the military.

Al Jazeera · Jan 31, 2024

Huge and secretive prison expansion in Myanmar revealed by satellite images

Junta’s vast programme of building prisons and labour camps raises fears of intensified crackdown against country’s pro-democracy movement

The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2024

ASEAN urges ‘Myanmar-owned and led solution’ to crisis triggered by coup

Laos, which is chairing group this year, stresses need for engagement as thousands killed in three years of violence.

Al Jazeera · Jan 30, 2024

Three years on from Myanmar’s military coup, the junta is struggling to assert control

Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing facing criticism after months of battlefield losses, with an estimated two-thirds of the country gripped by conflict

The Guardian - AU · Jan 30, 2024

In Myanmar’s Kayah, medics treat war wounded in hidden hospitals

Three years since the military seized power, plunging Myanmar into crisis, thousands have been killed and injured.

Al Jazeera · Jan 29, 2024

Australian-linked mining companies helping to prop up Myanmar military junta, report alleges

Activist group Justice for Myanmar alleges companies have continued operations in war-torn nation since the coup almost three years ago

The Guardian - AU · Jan 29, 2024