The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

In 2024 four journalists have been killed, with others jailed, as they report on human rights abuses by the military junta

Typhoon Yagi hit Vietnam at the weekend bringing winds in excess of 149 kilometres (92 miles) per hour and a deluge of rain that has also brought destructive floods to northern areas of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar.

While Russia, Iran, Myanmar, and other authoritarian states keep heavily censoring the web, increasingly more people need an alternative way to access the free internet.

Myanmar military air strikes in northern Shan state killed 11 civilians and wounded 11 more, a spokeswoman for an ethnic minority armed group battling the junta told AFP on Friday.

Baby elephant twins born last week on a timber camp in Myanmar are thriving after a wobbly first few days in the world, officials told AFP on Thursday.

The designation bans anyone from joining or having contact with the MNDAA, TNLA and the Arakan Army.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya in Bangladesh marked the seven-year anniversary of displacement from their homes in neighboring Myanmar on Aug. 25, 2024. It was a somber occasion for the long-persecuted Myanmarese Muslim minority, who have faced dire living conditions while clustered into the world’s most crowded refugee camps.

The head of Myanmar’s military government has declared that Myanmar will hold a national census next month to compile voter lists for a general election and to analyze population and socioeconomic trends

For three months in 2016, Clare Hammond, a British journalist working in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, traveled across the country on trains with a mission to find out where they went, who built them, and why

In time, restlessness gives way to new thinking, as artists from Anish Kapoor to Grayson Perry have attested

The two men from China and one from Myanmar had been trapped since the tunnel caved in a week ago