An Arakan Army spokesman said a military jet bombed Kyauk Ni Maw on Jan 8, starting a fire. Read more at straitstimes.com.

An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local charity said Thursday.

The Myanmar government has approved an oppressive Cybersecurity Law in an attempt to further persecute dissidents and limit the flow of information despite

A total of 88 people were killed and 360 injured in 203 traffic accidents on Myanmar Yangon-Mandalay highway in 2024 according to the highway traffic

Released prisoners are welcomed by family members and colleagues after they left Insein Prison on Saturday (4 January) in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar’s military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates’ sentences as part of a mass amnesty marking the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain.

Michael Martin is an adjunct fellow at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He served as a specialist policy adviser on Myanmar, China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam for two decades. His work included a 15-year tenure as a political and economic analyst with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.

Two Myanmar nationals and a Malaysian national were arrested for drug trafficking in Yangon, along with a large haul of drugs and drug-making devices, the official daily The Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Sunday.

China has much at stake. Its 771-kilometer oil and gas pipeline dissects Rakhine from its capital Sittwe through to Myanmar’s northern states and its security is behind speculation Beijing was prepared to put boots on the ground through a “joint security company” to be established with the military.

Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maksim Ryzhenkov held talks with Deputy Prime Minister, Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Than Swe during the official visit of Belarus’ delegation to Myanmar on 9 January.

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the leader of Myanmar’s military regime, granted pardons for 5,864 domestic prisoners and 180 foreign nationals, who will be deported, according to state-run MRTV. Mass amnesties are a common practice on national holidays in Myanmar, but the majority of those freed are rarely political detainees.

Two Myanmar nationals and a Malaysian national were arrested for drug trafficking in Yangon, along with a large haul of drugs and drug-making

Myanmar’s military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates’ sentences as part of a mass amnesty to mark the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain.