Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Yangon

More than 80 Rohingya detained in Myanmar: source

Yangon (AFP) - More than 80 Rohingya people seeking to travel by boat to Malaysia have been detained in Myanmar's southeast after traffickers abandoned them, a security source told AFP on Saturday.

AFP

Myanmar could face aid ‘catastrophe’, experts warn, after junta law change

Local and international aid agencies have a choice between operating illegally or registering with the junta, which some fear legitimises their coup

The Guardian - AU

Myanmar junta warns ASEAN against peace plan 'pressure'

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's junta has warned a regional bloc working to defuse its political crisis that setting a timeframe for a peace plan could lead to "negative implications".

AFP

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Myanmar shrine guards blow up sex doll ritual plans

Yangon (AFP) - A group who used sex dolls to carry out "ritual incantations" in the car park of Myanmar's holiest site will be prosecuted by the religious affairs ministry, state media said Monday.

AFP

Myanmar jail: Girl, 10, among eight dead after explosions and gunfire erupt at prison

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: An eyewitness said a number of civilians were present when the explosions occurred, as they were at the prison delivering food to their imprisoned relatives in Yangon, Myanmar

Daily Mirror

Bomb blasts outside Myanmar prison kill eight, wound 18

Yangon (AFP) - At least two bombs exploded outside a prison in Myanmar's commercial hub Yangon on Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 18.

AFP

Bomb blasts outside Yangon prison kill eight, wound 18

Yangon (AFP) - At least two bombs exploded outside a prison in Myanmar's Yangon on Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 18, in the latest blasts to rock the commercial hub.

AFP

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Jailed Australian economist moved to Yangon's Insein prison: source

An Australian economist jailed in Myanmar has been moved from the isolated military-built capital to a sprawling prison in Yangon, a source with knowledge of the case told AFP on Monday.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar junta extends jail terms for Suu Kyi, Japanese journalist

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's junta on Wednesday jailed a Japanese journalist arrested while filming an anti-coup protest for three more years for violating immigration law, a diplomatic source told AFP.

AFP

Myanmar junta courts prolong Japanese journalist, Suu Kyi jail terms

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's junta on Wednesday jailed a Japanese journalist arrested while filming an anti-coup protest for three more years for violating immigration law, a diplomatic source told AFP.

AFP

Myanmar junta sentences Suu Kyi to 6 more years for corruption

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's junta sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday to another six years in prison for corruption, a source with knowledge of the case said, taking the Nobel laureate's total jail time to 26 years.

AFP

Myanmar Airways launches Phuket route

Phuket: Myanmar Airways International (MAI) began operating its Yangon–Phuket route yesterday, targeting migrant workers and long-stay tourists.

Bangkok Post

Thousands throng Myanmar's Shwedagon to mark Buddhist festival of lights

Yangon (AFP) - Thousands of Buddhist devotees thronged Myanmar's Shwedagon Pagoda to mark the full moon of the Thadingyut festival on Sunday, some offering prayers for a country plunged into turmoil by last year's coup.

AFP

More than 1 million displaced since Myanmar coup: UN

Yangon (AFP) - More than one million people have been displaced in Myanmar since the military coup last year, the United Nations children's agency has said.

AFP

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

AFP

Myanmar junta jails Japanese filmmaker for 10 years

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's junta has jailed a Japanese filmmaker for 10 years, more than two months after he was arrested while filming an anti-coup protest, a military spokesman said Thursday.

AFP

Myanmar jails Japanese filmmaker for 10 years: diplomatic source

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's junta has jailed a Japanese filmmaker for 10 years for encouraging dissent against the military and violating an electronic communications law, a diplomatic source told AFP on Thursday.

AFP

Myanmar junta court sentences Australian economist, Suu Kyi to 3 years

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's junta sentenced an Australian economist to three years in prison while also handing down another conviction to ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, drawing global condemnation on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

Wife pleads for release of Australian sentenced in Myanmar

The wife of Australian economist Sean Turnell pleaded for his release on Thursday, saying his jailing in Myanmar is “heartbreaking” for his whole family.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

AFP

Myanmar's Suu Kyi and Australian economist sentenced to 3 years

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's junta sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to another three years in prison while also giving an Australian former government adviser the same term, a source told AFP on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

11 schoolchildren killed in Myanmar air strike: Unicef

YANGON: At least 11 schoolchildren died in an air strike and firing on a Myanmar village, the UN children's agency said, an attack the country's junta said targeted rebels hiding in the area.

AFP

Eleven schoolchildren killed in Myanmar air strike: UNICEF

Yangon (AFP) - At least 11 schoolchildren died in an air strike and firing on a Myanmar village, according to the United Nations children's agency, an attack the country's junta said targeted rebels hiding in the area.

The Guardian - UK

Historic Yangon villa where Aung San Suu Kyi was held for 15 years under threat

Ousted leader’s estranged brother has won a court case allowing villa, considered a symbol of democracy in Myanmar, to be sold

Al Jazeera

Myanmar court sentences ex-UK envoy, husband to year in prison

Ex-UK ambassador to Myanmar Vicky Bowman and her husband convicted over alleged immigration offences.

AFP

Myanmar junta jails former British envoy for one year

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's ruling military jailed on Friday a former British ambassador and her husband for a year each for breaching immigration rules, a junta spokesman said.

AFP

Myanmar's Suu Kyi sentenced to three years for electoral fraud: source

Yangon (AFP) - A Myanmar junta court sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in jail "with hard labour" on Friday, for electoral fraud in the 2020 polls that her party won in a landslide, a source said.

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.