Tag: Myanmar’s government

Headlines June 20, 2017

Chinese banks have frozen the accounts of more than 100 commodities traders in northeast Myanmar in a bid to clamp down...

Headlines June 12, 2017

A Myanmar monk once dubbed the "Buddhist Bin Laden" for his extremist diatribes says he has been banned from using...

Headlines June 5, 2017

Myanmar's wild elephants are being poached in record numbers with at least 20 killed this year due to surging demand...

Headlines June 2, 2017

Yangon authorities on Friday sued three Muslim men for holding Ramadan prayers in the street, after the local school...

Headlines May 29, 2017

Myanmar netizens were in uproar on Monday after Facebook seemingly banned people from posting the word "kalar," often...

Headlines May 27, 2017

Myanmar authorities must investigate a video showing men in military uniforms viciously beating handcuffed detainees...

Headlines April 9, 2017

The UN children's agency UNICEF has called on Myanmar's government to release Rohingya children detained as part of a...

Headlines March 29, 2017

A nascent Rohingya militant group whose raids triggered a bloody crackdown by Myanmar's army called Wednesday for...

Headlines February 28, 2017

At least 160 people have died in around three months of clashes between the military and ethnic armed groups in...

Headlines February 25, 2017

Three senior Myanmar police officers have been jailed for failing to block deadly raids on border posts in October that...

Headlines February 13, 2017

Myanmar authorities have sentenced a Rohingya man to death for leading raids on police border posts that sparked a...

International December 19, 2016

Myanmar's treatment of its Muslim Rohingya minority threatens to undermine the region's security and stability,...