In February 2024, Myanmar’s junta declared mandatory military service for men aged 18 to 35 and women aged 18 to 27. Those ...

On the pretext of failure to fulfil their work obligations, the military regime has denied credentials to some 800 young ...

More than a million people have fled Myanmar's brutal civil war to seek shelter and work in neighbouring Thailand, where ...

A local resistance group fighting against the military government in Myanmar has acknowledged responsibility for the killing last week of a Buddhist monk and his disciple in the country’s eastern ...

An overview of conflict, from protests to military and militant violence, in the Asia-Pacific in February 2025.

A 90-day freeze on foreign assistance programmes announced by US President Donald Trump has led to other cuts in services for ...

Myanmar’s junta leader, Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, announced during a visit to Belarus that the country would hold national ...

all private banks are closed and the protests have weakened the economy significantly, said Tom Andrews, the independent U.N. human rights expert on Myanmar. Andrews said the protesters have ...

Their nightmare was supposed to be over. Last month, a dramatic and highly publicized operation by Thai, Chinese and Myanmar authorities led to the release of more than 7,000 people from locked ...

Myanmar's military government will hold a general election in December 2025 or January 2026, state media said on Saturday, ...

People banged pots and pans and cars honked in protest. Hnin told her father Htun Htun Lay Win, who had moved back to Myanmar in 2016, that she was going to join the protests. "The next thing you ...