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Over 80,000 Rohingya kids ‘wasting’ from hunger in Myanmar: UN
Jul 17, 2017 15:46The United Nations has warned that tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslim children under the age of five are in dire need of treatment for "acute malnutrition" in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine.
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Myanmar farmers demand justice for lands
Jul 12, 2017 16:49Farmers in central Myanmar have entered the seventh day of a protest over continued land grabs in the country.
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UN calls on Myanmar to grant citizenship to Rohingya
Jul 07, 2017 19:25The UN refugee agency has called on Myanmar to grant citizenship to the persecuted Rohingya Muslims.
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Myanmar to deny entry to UN staffers investigating plight of Rohingya Muslims
Jun 30, 2017 12:37Myanmar says it will refuse entry to the members of a United Nations fact-finding mission tasked with investigating crimes made by Myanmar’s security forces against Rohingya Muslims.
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Myanmar ship retrieves black box from crashed plane
Jun 18, 2017 20:34A Myanmar ship has retrieved the black box of a plane that crashed into the Andaman Sea with 122 people on board, the army says, raising hopes of discovering the cause of the tragedy.
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Search for crashed plane continues off Myanmar
Jun 09, 2017 07:59Search and rescue efforts for a plane that crashed off Myanmar’s southern coast entered a third day on Friday, as hopes faded of finding survivors after 31 bodies were pulled from the water.
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Myanmar’s military finds missing plane, bodies
Jun 08, 2017 09:45Myanmar’s military says it has found the wreckage of a plane in the Andaman Sea that went missing with around 120 people on board, along with several bodies.
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Myanmar military plane with 116 passengers goes missing
Jun 07, 2017 13:32A Myanmar military plane carrying 116 people went missing on Wednesday between the southern city of Myeik and Yangon, according to the office of the army chief and an airport source.
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Myanmar charges 3 Muslims for holding Ramadan prayers
Jun 02, 2017 20:24Three Muslims have been indicted by Myanmar’s authorities for holding Ramadan prayers in the street where the local school they used to worship in for decades was closed by a nationalist mob.
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UN rights group names team to probe atrocities against Rohingya
May 30, 2017 15:44The UN Human Rights Council has named a three-person team to probe atrocities against Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state.