- September 1st, 2026
A Myanmar military airstrike on a monastery where civilians were gathered for a meditation retreat marking Buddhist Lent killed 14 people, two rebel fighters who witnessed the aftermath said. The Friday (Aug 21) attack hit a monastery hall around 9am...
Seventeen members of a Myanmar-based human trafficking syndicate accused of luring Chinese citizens overseas and selling them to criminal scam compounds have been charged in a Shanghai court, Chinese prosecutors said on Wednesday, August 19. The case has drawn renewed...
A total of 500 people have been hospitalised for severe diarrhoea in Myanmar's largest city, a Yangon official said on Monday (Aug 17), with nearly 150 testing positive for cholera. Myanmar's infrastructure and health sector are creaking after more than...
The Strait of Malacca, one of the world’s most vital maritime corridors, is rapidly emerging as a focal point of geopolitical tension and strategic recalibration. Carrying over 40% of global trade and roughly a quarter of the world’s traded oil,...
Voting concluded in Myanmar’s month-long national election on Sunday (Jan 25), with the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) on course for a sweeping victory in a poll widely criticised as a bid to entrench the junta’s grip on...
Voters in war-torn Myanmar cast ballots on Sunday (Jan 11) in the second phase of a nationwide election that has been widely criticised by opposition groups, rights advocates and Western governments as neither free nor fair. The military-backed Union Solidarity...
Hundreds of prisoners were released in Myanmar on Sunday (Jan 4) following an annual independence day amnesty announced by the ruling junta, just a week after the country began a highly controversial election widely denounced by international observers as a...
Myanmar’s military junta began a tightly controlled, month-long general election on Sunday, December 28, billing the vote as a return to democratic normality five years after it seized power in a coup that plunged the country into a brutal civil...
Myanmar’s military-led administration is set to begin a multi-phased general election on Sunday, pressing ahead with polls that many analysts, Western governments and human rights groups have dismissed as a bid to entrench military rule rather than restore democracy, as...
The United Nations on Tuesday (Dec 23) accused Myanmar’s ruling military junta of using violence, intimidation and mass arrests to force people to participate in upcoming military-controlled elections, while warning that armed opposition groups are also employing coercive tactics to...
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