‘They are a failed coup and a failed regime’
Yangon/ Taipei – In Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon, people have been scrambling for hospital beds and looking for oxygen for ...
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Myanmar: An Uneasy Alliance
Can pro-democracy activists and ethnic nationalists join forces to overthrow Myanmar's brutal military regime?
‘We eat only rice. We are trying not to die’
Concerns are growing over the welfare of thousands of displaced people in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State who are in lockdown ...
UN warned of ‘dire’ COVID situation in Myanmar
Half of Myanmar’s population could get COVID-19 within the next two weeks, the UK tells United Nations Security Council.The United ...
Protest erupts at Myanmar’s Insein prison amid COVID outbreak
A protest has erupted at a prison in Myanmar’s commercial capital of Yangon against what activists said was a worsening ...
Myanmar women give birth in jungle as military lies in wait
On a stormy night in June, Rosemary lay in the darkness of her home in a deserted village in Myanmar’s ...
Jailed Myanmar politician Nyan Win dies from COVID
Win, a senior adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, dies from COVID-19 after becoming infected in jail, says ...
China reports spike in new COVID cases on border with Myanmar
China has reported its highest daily increase in new confirmed COVID-19 cases since January, driven by an outbreak in Yunnan ...
75 children killed, 1,000 detained since Myanmar coup: UN experts
Dozens of children have been killed and hundreds arbitrarily detained in Myanmar since a coup more than five months ago, ...
Blinken urges ASEAN to take ‘immediate action’ on Myanmar
In first meeting with ASEAN, US secretary of state calls for action on Myanmar and rejects China’s claims in South ...
Aung San Suu Kyi faces more charges as UN urges reconciliation
Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi is facing four additional criminal charges, filed in a court in the country’s ...
Myanmar coup leader says Russia to supply two million COVID shots
Myanmar reported 4,320 cases on Friday, a record for a second successive day, and 63 deaths, as anti-coup protests continue.Myanmar’s ...
Telenor signals Myanmar exit, as UN calls for urgent action
The mobile phone company says it is selling its business because of the military coup as UN officials urge more ...
Myanmar military adopts ‘four cuts’ to stamp out coup opponents
On May 24 in Myanmar’s Kachin State, 13-year-old Awng Di walked over to his aunt’s house about noontime to feed ...
What is the Myanmar military’s ‘four cuts’ strategy?
‘Four cuts’ was first used against the Karen in the 1960s and was also deployed in Rakhine in 2017.The Myanmar ...
British-funded task force to investigate Myanmar military abuses
The project, Myanmar Witness, comes as Western countries seek to increase pressure on the country’s military rulers over accusations of ...
Myanmar military kills at least 25 people in raid on central town
Myanmar’s armed forces killed at least 25 people in a confrontation with opponents of the military at a town in ...
Villages empty, civilian armed groups rise in eastern Myanmar
No one is left in Mi Meh’s village. After the military began launching indiscriminate air attacks and shelling on her ...
Myanmar begins general strike in face of military threats
Millions expected to stop work and join protests calling for restoration of democracy three weeks after generals seized power in ...