Western retailers are increasingly divided over whether to buy clothes made in Myanmar, where some say labor abuses have worsened under military rule.
NUG Raises Over US$9 Million Selling Land Illegally Seized by Myanmar Military
The new fundraising scheme in Mandalay follows the success of a similar project launched in Yangon last month.
AFP photo falsely shared as ‘Bangladesh response to cross-border shelling from Myanmar’
After a Rohingya man was killed when mortar shells fired from Myanmar landed across the border in Bangladesh, a photo surfaced in Facebook posts claiming it showed Bangladeshi forces hunting down …
At a tea shop for Myanmar exiles, rebels at the counter, revolution in the air
At a newly opened tea shop named “Freedom,” the tea is brewed strong, then stirred with evaporated and condensed milk by a revolutionary on the lam. Food is cooked over a gas stove by a 53-year-old …
Firing inside Myanmar again rocks locals in Bangladesh’s Reju Amtali
The firing on the Myanmar side of the Bangladesh-Myanmar border started again Monday a week after it had stopped – the latest in the series of violent incidents in the area.Firing resumed on the …
Meta’s Toxic Algorithm ‘Substantially Contributed’ to Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar: Amnesty International
A new report from Amnesty International this week dives deeply into the Facebook-fueled atrocities perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslim minority by Myanmar security forces. Beginning in 2017 …
Myanmar military threatens jail for online ‘likes’ for opponents
Myanmar’s military spokesman General Zaw Min Tun attends a news conference ahead of the start of a new parliament term and the formation of the new government in Naypyitaw, Myanmar January …
OPINION – 6 reasons US is not really supporting Myanmar’s democratic resistance
There will be no free, democratic, or inclusive Myanmar as long as its criminal military regime remains in power – Anadolu Agency …
Special Report: Family Reveals Plight of U.S. Political Prisoner in Myanmar
A botanist from California has been held for over a year in captivity. His family is begging the Biden administration for answers and help …
Myanmar’s military government accuses rebel forces of shooting at passenger plane
The Myanmar military government has accused rebel forces of shooting at a passenger plane in Kayah. One passenger was wounded when a bullet penetrated the plane’s fuselage.