The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Cambodia for a U.S.-ASEAN minister's meeting next week during which he will address the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, Myanmar and the war in Ukraine, the State Department said on Friday.

Ma Nilar Thein says people must ‘eradicate this military regime’ as four prisoners executed after closed trials

A refugee suffered an "outpouring of rage" over his traumatic childhood as part of an ethnic minority in Myanmar when he stabbed a woman more than 100 times inside a historic Adelaide home, a court has heard.

The military junta’s execution of four pro-democracy activists earlier this week has again shone a spotlight on the appalling judgement and brutality of the junta leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, and his top generals.

More than 70 political prisoners are on death row and analysts fear a desperate military regime could step up killings.

India has expressed “deep concern” at Myanmar’s executions of four political prisoners, joining other nations in condemning the hangings and raising concerns about a setback to efforts to bring peace to the country

An international human rights organisation is criticising the Australian government's response to the execution of four pro-democracy activists by Myanmar's military, accusing Canberra of being a "laggard" and out of step with its allies.

Myanmar's National Unity Government announces it will open its own diplomatic mission in a rented house in Canberra, near Myanmar's official embassy in Yarralumla.

On Monday, Myanmar's military junta announced the execution of the four activists alleging that they were involved in "terror acts" against the administration

Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s death penalty moratorium has been a myth. The junta has routinely targeted civilians for extra-judicial killing, including using army snipers to callously pick off peaceful protesters. There have been killings of prisoners too, with many of the dead reportedly exhibiting signs of torture on their…

The group was the latest to condemn the execution of pro-democracy activists by Myanmar’s coup leaders.