The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

YANGON: Myanmar’s businesses will be left without power for five hours a night for much of this month to allow students to burn the midnight oil, a stark illustration of how energy shortages are forcing tough choices and worsening already acute economic pain.

The recent death of a Uighur man -- who had sought refuge in Thailand and was subsequently detained for nearly a decade, was a sad reflection of the unbalanced response towards persons who seek refuge, or "refugees", in this country. Various groups currently seek protection from persecution, armed conflicts and…

The military coup of Feb 1, 2021 plunged Myanmar into a political crisis. Two years on, this has become a humanitarian crisis. Half of our population does not have enough food, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). At least 1.6 million are internally displaced, due to military operations, including…

Nearly one million stateless Rohingya people who fled brutal ethnic cleansing in Myanmar have been languishing in extremely congested refugee camps in Bangladesh for the past five and a half years.

Lawyers for ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is serving a 33-year prison sentence on what are widely seen as contrived charges, have been denied meetings with her as they prepare her appeals

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says more than 200,000 refugees have fled Myanmar to his country and urgently called for new ways to persuade Myanmar’s ruling generals to resolve the civil conflict

An Indian state-owned arms manufacturer has shipped artillery barrels to military-ruled Myanmar, an activist group said on Wednesday, warning they could be used by the junta in its crackdown on dissent.

New report from Amnesty Intl, Global Witness and Burma Campaign UK reveals new shipments of fuel despite air raids.

Kaamil Ahmed, a British journalist, on his new book about the Rohingya’s extraordinary suffering.

Access to internet services restricted 187 times by 35 countries says new research, with India, Iran and Myanmar repeatedly enforcing blackouts

A Myanmarese woman was allegedly gang-raped by four people in the national capital. Read further on Dynamite News: