Myanmar

According to a source familiar with the case, a Myanmar junta court sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to six years in prison on Monday for corruption, bringing her total time behind bars to 17 years. Since...

When a regional group of foreign ministers meets this week, Malaysia is expected to take the lead in pushing for harder sanctions against Myanmar as resentment toward the junta for blocking crisis resolution efforts grows. While...

The UN human rights chief on Monday slammed the execution of four prisoners including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party and a prominent activist as “cruel and regressive”. “I am dismayed that despite...

The UN’s highest court ruled on Friday that a landmark case filed by the Gambia, accusing Myanmar of the genocide of minority Rohingya Muslims, can proceed. International Court of Justice president Joan Donoghue said the tribunal...

The junta’s information team stated in a statement that a Myanmar military jet crashed Wednesday morning after a “technical breakdown” while travelling in the country’s north. The plane, which took off from the Tada-U air force...

The Norwegian lawmaker behind the nomination revealed on Tuesday, the anniversary of the military coup that toppled Aung San Suu Kyi, that Myanmar’s self-proclaimed shadow government had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022....

Two of Save the Children’s employees were killed in a Christmas Eve massacre alleged on junta troops, which left the burnt remains of more than 30 people on a highway in eastern Myanmar. Over 30 burned...

Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was jailed for four years on Monday on charges of incitement and breaching coronavirus restrictions, a source familiar with the proceedings said, in a case critics dismissed as a...

On Sunday, Myanmar’s junta head met with a top figure from Aung San Suu Kyi’s deposed party for the first time since the February coup. Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party were overthrown...

In the early hours of Friday, an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale struck near Myanmar-India. The epicenter of the earthquake was in Hakha, Chin State, Myanmar, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS)....