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Opium production in Myanmar has nearly doubled since a military coup two years ago, a UN report found on Thursday, reversing years of decline as farmers set aside more land…
Southeast Asian rights group Fortify Rights and 16 Myanmar nationals have filed a criminal complaint with Germany’s federal prosecutors against Myanmar’s junta for atrocities committed against ethnic Rohingya and other…
About 10,000 villagers in two townships have fled their homes as junta troops continued operations in the scorched earth in Myanmar’s northern Sagaing region, locals told RFA. A column of…
SINGAPORE, 20 January 2023– Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), with support from the Republic Polytechnic of Singapore and the ASEAN Secretariat (ASEC), concluded the third cycle of the Initiative…
Myanmar and Thailand have reopened a major border crossing after a three-year hiatus. The Myawaddy-Mae Sot Friendship Bridge, which connects Thailand’s western Tak province with Kayin state’s Myawaddy township in…
As chair of ASEAN in 2023, Indonesia must press Myanmar to end violence and restore democracy nearly two years after Burmese generals overthrew an elected government, Human Rights Watch said…
A prisoner demonstration at a prison in southern Myanmar that led to a deadly crackdown last week was sparked in part by preparations for the execution of a school teacher,…
ASEAN chair Indonesia will set up a special envoy office to deal with the post-coup crisis in Myanmar but not allow the country to hold the regional bloc hostage, Foreign…
A court under the jurisdiction of Myanmar’s military junta has sentenced 116 Rohingya refugees to between two and five years in prison for traveling without documents after they left camps…
Myanmar’s junta met at the weekend with three armed ethnic organizations as part of a wider campaign to drum up support for an upcoming general election dismissed by democracy watchdogs…
Prison officers in Myanmar shot and killed a political prisoner on Friday and injured more than 60 other people – including eight critically – after inmates protested their beating of…
Promises of high-paying entertainment jobs lured the three Thai women to Myanmar, but they found themselves trapped in prostitution in Shan state near the Chinese border before escaping, they said,…