The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

Toru Kubota, a Japanese journalist who was arrested while covering a protest in military-ruled Myanmar and detained for more than three months, says his experience has made him more determined to tell the story of people there

Art and human rights violations do not always share the same tone. How can surviving abuse or living with restrictions also be beautiful and artistic? Violations come with misery, hopelessness, suffering and disagreement, while art brings beauty, meaning and creativity. Could brutal human rights violations be presented in artistic form?…

ANZ announces it will pull out of Myanmar, dealing a blow to the country's military junta and potentially ramping up pressure on other overseas banks to turn their backs on the regime.

Australia should sanction Myanmar's military government and the regime's bankers, Sean Turnell, the Australian economist and adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in his first interview since being released from a Myanmar jail last week.

The 58-year-old Sydney economist and former adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi thanks those who helped bring him home after 650 days in a Myanmar prison.

A U.N. expert says the release of thousands of prisoners in Myanmar is likely an attempt by its military government to “create a veneer of progress” in the country to sway international opinion

Foreign countries committing human rights abuses against their own citizens as well as Australians, would face sanctions under a push by the coalition.

One year has passed since Myanmar's National Unity Government (NUG) declared a "defensive war" in its armed struggle against the military junta that had staged a coup. The NUG is a government in exile formed by those who are against the military junta. The two sides remain in a state…

SURAT THANI: Two drivers and 42 illegal migrants from Myanmar were arrested in Phunphin district in the early hours of Friday following a chase involving one of two pickup trucks used for smuggling.