NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar - Following recent investigations that have shaken the military and the country's business sector, Myanmar's junta chief, Gen Min Aung Hlaing, has fired one of his favorit… Read More
Burma’s military-led government reduced the prison sentences of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a clemency connected to a religious holiday in the Buddhist-majority country, state… Read More
Efforts by workers to rescue the injured and collect the remains of mangled bodies at the scene of a junta air strike that killed at least 80 civilians in Myanmar’s northern Sagaing re… Read More
An ongoing art exhibition at the Goethe Institut Myanmar in Yangon chronicles the evolution of Myanmar abstract act, displaying works by 11 well-known modernists. Admission is free for the e… Read More
Soldiers of Myanmar’s military junta burned to the ground a 129-year-old Catholic church in the country’s Sagaing region on Sunday, January 15.
More than 150 soldiers entered… Read More
A Myanmar junta court docket might carry down the ultimate convictions in an 18-month trial of Aung San Suu Kyi subsequent week, capping the newest chapter within the army’s d… Read More
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The decapitated body of a high school teacher was left on grotesque display at a school in central Myanmar after he was detained and killed by the military, witnesses said… Read More
Source: Radio Free Asia (4 August 2022)https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/execution-08042022185223.htmlThe families of 77 political activists sentenced to death by Myanmar’s mili… Read More
Death threats against pro-democracy and anti-junta activists are on the rise across Myanmar as militia groups loyal to the military regime expand their presence in the country’s urban… Read More
Treasury Sanctions Regime Officials and Military Affiliated Cronies in Burma on One-Year Anniversary of Military Coup
Designations Part of Joint Action with UK and Canada
WASHINGTON, DC (STL… Read More
Myanmar’s military freed thousands of people arrested for protesting its February coup under strict conditions on Monday, prompting observers to dismiss the move as a bid to appease th… Read More
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday rejected a U.N. General Assembly resolution calling for an arms embargo against the Southeast Asian nation and condemning t… Read More
Human Rights Watch’s’ Phil Robertson pointed out that the move puts Myanmar in danger of becoming a “pariah state” once more.
Myanmar as a nation has had its troub… Read More
Author: Khin Zaw Win, Tampadipa Institute
Myanmar’s return to democracy has occurred at huge cost. The 1988 nation-wide protests were the starting point of a process that lasted until… Read More
Image copyright EPA Image caption More than half a million Muslims are still believed to live in Myanmar’s Rakhine state Myanmar has responded defiantly to a ruling by the UN’… Read More
Five members of a satirical poetry troupe have been handed jail terms for poking fun at Myanmar’s powerful military during a street performance in Yangon earlier this year.
They wer… Read More
Author: U Myint, UMFCCI
From the onset of the new millennium to 2010, Myanmar experienced double-digit growth for 11 years in succession. Over this decade, most Asian countries did not have… Read More
Hledan MarketHledan RoadYangonMyanmarby Daw Aung San Mue SliHledan Market. A squat concrete Myanmar-modernism shell of a government building, coloured in peeling light-blue paint and crammed… Read More