The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

Zaw Myint Maung, a senior member of Myanmar’s former ruling party arrested during the 2021 military takeover, has died

Two weeks ago, Sadia*, a 19-year-old Rohingya asylum seeker in India, was finally able to terminate her pregnancy that resulted from a reported rape that happened in Tripura in June. It cost her 10,000 Bangladeshi Taka (Rs 7,000) to abort in a private hospital in Bangladesh.

The main group coordinating opposition to military rule in Myanmar has rejected a surprise offer from the ruling generals to hold talks on a political solution to the country’s nationwide armed conflict

Surprise call comes with the generals, who seized power in 2021, under major pressure from their opponents.

Local officials raided a construction camp in Ayutthaya province on Tuesday morning and arrested 272 illegal workers from Myanmar.

A married couple reportedly executed on Monday with five more people facing the death penalty on Tuesday.

Trained and guided by ethnic armed groups, Myanmar’s volunteer fighting forces are challenging the generals’ grip.

Soldiers and other government personnel are doing cleanup and repair work in Myanmar, where floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Yagi and monsoon rains more than a week ago left at least 380 dead and 89 missing

Rohingya refugee Syed fled Myanmar for a second time last month, after he was forced to fight alongside the military that drove his family out of their homeland years earlier.