The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

ASEAN ministers meet a week after the military hanged four activists, but look unlikely to take a tougher line.

Since August 2017, rampant persecution and violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state has pushed hundreds of thousands of Muslim minority people, known as the Rohingya, to abandon their homes and seek sanctuary in Bangladesh. According to the United Nations' estimation, 200,000 Myanmar civilians have already sought refuge in Bangladesh following prior…

YANGON: Myanmar's military chief Sr Gen Min Aung Hlaing said Monday that some points of a consensus reached between the junta and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to end the country's ongoing crisis will be implemented this year.

Myanmar authorities detained a Japanese documentary filmmaker after he attended a protest in the city of Yangon on the weekend against recent executions carried out by the military government, activists said on Monday.

Malaysia is set to lead a push for tougher action on Myanmar when a regional bloc of foreign ministers meet this week, as anger mounts at the junta for stonewalling crisis resolution efforts.

The leader of Myanmar’s military-installed government has announced the extension of its mandate to rule for another six months in preparation for an election it has said will be held next year

Myanmar will not be represented at an international gathering of foreign ministers in Cambodia this week, a spokesperson for the ASEAN chair said on Monday, after its military rulers declined a proposal to send a non-junta representative instead.

Quality of jobs has also deteriorated, with more irregular hours and lower pay, International Labour Organization says.

KANCHANABURI: Twenty-one Myanmar nationals who illegally crossed the border into Thong Pha Phum, Sai Yok and Sangkhla Buri districts of this western province were arrested by combined military and police patrols on Saturday and Sunday.