Myanmar Protests For Democracy

People across Myanmar continued protesting a military coup and called for the release of the country’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.  This, despite an increased show of force by military and police

Aung San Suu Kyi, Ruling Party...

Myanmar’s military has arrested leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s president, and state ministers in an apparent coup against the ruling National League for Democracy government on early Monday morning following rising tensions over disputed 2020 election results, an NLD spokesman said

Two Student Protesters in Myanmar’s Rakhine...

Kyaw Ye Thu, president of the Student Union of Pyay University, and Htet Aung, vice president of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABSFU), were convicted under Section 505(b) of Myanmar’s Penal Code and immediately sent to jail

Landmine Deaths Break Quiet But Myanmar’s...

Nine members of an extended family from a village in Maungdaw township were traveling home from a Buddhist alms-giving ceremony when their vehicle hit the mine. Kyaw Ye Aung, 25, his wife Aye Sann Nu, 20, and their son Kyaw Hsan Oo, 3 were killed, while four severely injured family members were taken to a hospital in the state capital Sittwe on Wednesday

Myanmar Ruling Party Follows Election Win...

With nearly all votes tallied from Sunday’s vote, the NLD clinched a clear majority of seats in the bicameral national Union Parliament, the Union Election Commission (UEC) said on Friday

War-torn Rakhine State Seen as Trouble...

On Friday, the last day of the two-month-long political campaign period, some 300 ballots submitted at one polling state during the advanced voting were declared null and void after election officials discovered check marks for a local party already stamped on 14 ballots

Freedom of the Press, Largely Absent...

On the eve of the general elections in Burma, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces the countless attacks on press freedom which have punctuated the electoral campaign and which have already discredited the results of this consultation. It has become the great forgotten point of the democratic transition in Burma, initiated ten years ago. Press freedom has …

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Myanmar Sees First Gay Election Candidate...

Myanmar’s first openly gay candidate to run for a parliamentary seat in the conservative Buddhist country’s November elections wants to put an end to the abuse that members of the LBGT community say they suffer at the hands of the police

Myanmar Parties Raise Concern After Grenades...

With Myanmar headed to the polls Nov. 8 to elect national and state legislatures, campaigning has been hampered by increasingly tight restrictions aimed at fighting a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic

COVID-19 Surge Stresses Health Care in...

Dr. Myint Htwe, minister of health and sports, said the ministry will open temporary facilities in Phaunggyi in the region’s Hlegu township to treat the growing number of COVID-9 patients, while state-owned sport stadiums in Yangon will be modified to be used as quarantine centers