The Latest Breaking News from Yangon

In 2024 four journalists have been killed, with others jailed, as they report on human rights abuses by the military junta

Student activist Lin Lin led protests against Myanmar's junta, defying the generals for months before being hunted down and caught.

One potential conscript describes how fear has gripped Yangon as people try to flee ahead of a law imposed by a hated junta

The military said last weekend it would enforce a law allowing it to call up all men aged 18-35 and women aged 18-27 to serve for at least two years, as it struggles to quell opposition to its 2021 coup.

Flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Myanmar’s southern areas has displaced more than 14,000 people and disrupted traffic on the rail lines that connect the country’s biggest cities

Prison officials accused of extrajudicial killings and torture with thousands arrested for their opposition to the coup.

YANGON: Myanmar anti-coup fighters briefly seized several border outposts after junta-aligned militia defected and joined the rebels, sparking days of heavy clashes, state media reported on Thursday.

YANGON: Myanmar state media condemned the United Nations as "rotten" on Friday, days after the UN special envoy for the country stepped down and the world body slammed curbs on aid for cyclone survivors.

MAE SOT: Police in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, came for Min Thwe Thit before dawn on Feb 1, 2021. He did not know why they had come — or what was unfolding in the Southeast Asian nation.

India is sending more aid to Yangon, but communications remain difficult, hampering the disaster response.

International pressure led to Adani vowing to cut ties with Myanmar's military junta in 2021. Now, leaked documents reveal how the resources giant had been privately negotiating coal ventures with the sanctioned regime leaders.