The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

Bianca Jagger, ‘Wild Swans’ author Jung Chang and former minister Andrew Mitchell join calls for the release of the Myanmar leader following the screening of a new Independent TV film on her life

Muslim refugees fleeing persecution in Myanmar are being detained and forced back by Bangladeshi border guards

Southeast Asian foreign ministers are gathering for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, Malaysia, seeking a breakthrough over Myanmar’s drawn-out civil war and territorial disputes in the South China Sea

The Committee to Protect Journalist’s 2024 prison census has found that China, Israel, and Myanmar are the world’s top three offenders when it comes to the number of journalists jailed because of their work. 

Four South Koreans and one Myanmar national have been arrested at a hair salon in Bangkok for working in an occupation reserved for Thai nationals.

Chinese actor Wang Xing's rescue from a scam center in Myanmar triggers efforts to locate missing victims, raising safety concerns for Chinese tourists in ...

Wang Xing was abducted in Thailand by increasingly bold crime gangs operating in Myanmar, putting an entire tourism industry at risk

With major conflicts in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Southeast Asia, 1 in 8 people worldwide were exposed to conflict in 2024 – proving another fraught year in terms of human suffering on a mass scale. In fact, 111 countries around the world experienced some form of mass atrocity…

Toru Kubota backed calls from three former foreign secretaries William Hague, Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from Myanmar’s brutal dictatorship