The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

One of the most colorful festivals in the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, involving scores of rowed boats and a spectacular gold-gilded barge, is being celebrated this month after a three-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic and violent political instability.

Dozens were killed last week when the military bombed a camp for people displaced by decades of conflict.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees has urged the international community not to forget the plight of ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in the midst of many other world crises

Radiation Detection Equipment will be installed at the Integrated Check Posts and land ports of Attari (Pakistan border), Petrapole, Agartala, Dawki and Sutarkandi (all on the Bangladesh border), Raxaul and Jogbani (Nepal) and Moreh (Myanmar).

Myanmar’s military government has hosted representatives from ethnic rebel groups to mark the eighth anniversary of the signing of a multilateral cease-fire agreement

France's prestigious Prix Bayeux war correspondents' awards have gone to journalists covering some of the world's most gruelling conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine, Haiti and Myanmar.

Nipah virus reservoirs in SE Asia, India may cause cross-species transmission to humans. Early detection systems needed. Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, China, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka have bat populations exposed to Nipah. Lack of treatment options, need for antivirals, monoclonal antibodies, vaccines in clinical trials. Virological, immunological factors to…

Myanmar’s military is accused of launching an airstrike on a camp for displaced persons in the northern state of Kachin that killed about 30 people, including about a dozen children

Victims of attack in Kachin state include children, according to media and local activists

The camp near the Chinese border houses thousands of people displaced by decades of conflict.

A young Myanmar man wanted for the murder of former ambassador Vichit Vichitmarn, stabbed to death at his Chatuchak home, fled Thailand the next day, crossing the border into Myanmar in Chiang Rai province.