Members of Myanmar’s expatriate community in Japan are lobbying local assemblies to pressure the central government to accept their f
Some 45,000 Rohingya flee amid allegations of beheading, burning in Myanmar
UN rights chief Volker Turk urges Bangladesh, other countries ‘to provide effective protection’ to the latest refugees.
Reports emerge of new atrocities against Rohingya in Myanmar
Reports are emerging of new atrocity crimes being committed in a concerted campaign of violence and destruction by Myanmars military again …
Myanmar Female Political Prisoners Sexually Abused: Rights Group
The Myanmar Political Prisoners Network claims two women were invasively strip-searched by trans-male Kyaikmayaw prison guards this month.
Report: 359 dead in Myanmar’s junta airstrikes in 4 months
A recent study reports that Myanmar junta airstrikes have killed over 359 civilians, including 61 children, and injured 756 others in the first four months of 2024. This is a significant increase in civilian casualties since the military coup in 2021 …
UN human rights office decries beheadings, other violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
The U.N. human rights office has warned of “frightening and disturbing reports” about the impact of new violence in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state and new attacks on Rohingya civilians by the army …
‘The entire town is burning.’ Fires rage as Rohingya caught up on the front lines of Myanmar’s civil war
Families of Rohingya people trapped in Myanmar’s west said this week they are desperately trying to contact loved ones after a weekend of widespread arson attacks displaced up to 200,000 people and …
ASEAN visa: Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia and Myanmar eye Schengen-style tourism boost
A new visa in the ASEAN region could enhance tourism plans in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia and Myanmar
Myanmar conflict: a state of unprecedented turmoil and suffering, Cardinal Bo says
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, archbishop of Yangon in Myanmar, says there is an “unprecedented state of turmoil and suffering, which seems to have no end” in the country.
Thousands flee Myanmar for Thailand amid flare up in civil war fighting
Myanmar’s civil war has taken a critical turn in recent weeks following a series of defeats for the military junta that reclaimed power in 2021. The exiled civilian government, deposed in that coup, …