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Myanmar port city cut off after deadly Cyclone Mocha

KYAUKTAW, Myanmar: Tens of thousands of people in a major Myanmar port city were cut off from contact on Monday after a deadly cyclone...

Rohingya say they won’t return to Myanmar

DHAKA: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh said on Saturday they would not return to Myanmar to "be confined in camps" after making a visit to...

Myanmar junta to free 3,000 prisoners in Buddhist New Year amnesty

YANGON: Myanmar's junta on Monday began releasing more than 3,000 prisoners to mark the Buddhist New Year, without specifying whether those jailed in its...

Myanmar junta extends state of emergency, likely delaying polls

Myanmar's military authorities announced a six-month extension to a state of emergency on Wednesday, likely delaying elections the junta had pledged to hold by...

UN says Myanmar junta elections will fuel violence

BANGKOK: Junta plans for elections in coup-hit Myanmar this year will "fuel greater violence", a United Nations special envoy said on Tuesday, calling for...

Myanmar army set to cement rule with tough new election criteria

Myanmar's ruling junta on Friday announced tough requirements for parties to contest an election this year, including a huge increase in their membership, a...

Myanmar opium cultivation surging under military rule

Opium cultivation in military-ruled Myanmar jumped 33% last year, reversing a six-year downward trend in the strife-torn country, a United Nations report said on...

Myanmar opium farming booming after coup: UN

BANGKOK: Opium poppy production in Myanmar ramped up dramatically following the 2021 military coup, the UN's drugs office said Thursday, as political and economic...

Norway fund drops China, India firms over Myanmar weapons

OSLO: Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's biggest, has excluded two companies from China and India for selling weapons to Myanmar, the Norwegian central...

Myanmar junta chief family assets found in Thai drug raid

Thai officials found assets belonging to adult children of Myanmar's junta leader during a raid on the Bangkok apartment of a Myanmar tycoon charged...

Myanmar court finds Suu Kyi guilty on 5 counts of corruption

A court in army-ruled Myanmar found deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty on Friday in all five counts of corruption, a source familiar...

Myanmar court jails Suu Kyi, Australian economist for 3 years: source

NAYPYIDAW: A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Thursday sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her former economic adviser, Australian Sean Turnell, to...

Eleven 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...

Mortar fired from Myanmar kills Rohingya in Bangladesh

An 18-year-old Rohingya man was killed and at least six more people injured Friday when mortar shells fired from Myanmar landed inside Bangladesh, officials...

EU condemns jail, hard labour sentence for Myanmar’s Suu Kyi

BRUSSELS: The European Union condemned on Sunday the sentencing of Myanmar's deposed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi to jail with hard labour, after...

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi gets jail with hard labour for election fraud

Myanmar's deposed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty of electoral fraud on Friday and sentenced to three years in jail with...

Rare white elephant born in Myanmar: state media

The rare white elephant was bornin western Rakhine state and weighs about 80 kilograms.

Myanmar military condemned for execution of 4 democracy activists

Myanmar's ruling military has executed four democracy activists accused of helping to carry out "terror acts", it said on Monday, sparking widespread condemnation of...

Myanmar democracy activists’ death sentences upheld

YANGON: Myanmar's military government said on Friday that appeals by two prominent democracy activists against their death sentences had been rejected, paving the way...

Telenor completes business sale

Telenor will receive payments for the sale of its Myanmar operations over the next five years, the Norwegian telecoms company said on Friday as...
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