Myanmar

China captures scam centre suspect with Thailand's help

Police have detained a man suspected of involvement in the case of a Chinese actor who was duped into travelling to Thailand for a film job and then trafficked to Myanmar, China's

China families appeal to free relatives held by scam gangs in Myanmar

The abduction and cross

China, Myanmar, Thailand reach consensus to eradicate telecom fraud centres

Officials from China, Myanmar, Thailand reached a consensus on eradicating telecommunication fraud centres in Myanmar on Tuesday during a meeting in the Chinese city of Kunming,

China says it brokered a ceasefire between Myanmar army and an ethnic rebel group

China says it has brokered a ceasefire between Myanmar’s military government and a major ethnic rebel group in the country’s northeast

Myanmar military, minority armed group agree ceasefire, China says

The Myanmar military and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) signed a formal agreement for a ceasefire that began on Saturday, China's foreign ministry said,

Southeast Asia foreign ministers seek breakthrough in Myanmar conflict and South China Sea dispute

Southeast Asian foreign ministers met this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, Malaysia, seeking a breakthrough over Myanmar’s drawn-out civil war and territorial disputes in the South China Sea

ASEAN tells Myanmar junta peace, not election, is priority

Southeast Asian nations told Myanmar's military government on Sunday its plan to hold an election amid an escalating civil war should not be its priority,

Myanmar says rebel attacks, gas shortages worsen power crisis

Myanmar's electricity generation has dropped to about half the normal figure, as rebels have damaged critical transmission networks, causing lengthy blackouts in wide

China urges ASEAN states to fight cross-border crimes in show of new urgency

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on Southeast Asian countries on Thursday to take strong measures to crack down on online gambling and telecom fraud, urging the "relevant"

Myanmar military air strike kills dozens in Rakhine village, UN says

Dozens of people were killed in an air strike by Myanmar's military government in the western state of Rakhine this week, the United Nations said, as the Southeast Asia

China warns citizens of telecom fraud after reports of scams in Myanmar

China's embassy in Myanmar on Friday urged Chinese nationals to be vigilant against telecom and online fraud after multiple reports of citizens being lured to Myanmar's border town

An army airstrike on a village in western Myanmar has killed at least 40 people, reports say

An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group has killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local charity say

Alleged Yakuza leader admits trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar

Alleged Yakuza leader admits trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar

Japanese crime leader pleads guilty in US to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar

The leader of a Japanese crime syndicate who was charged by U.S. authorities with trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar pleaded guilty on Wednesday, the

Thai police say Chinese actor was trafficked to Myanmar to work in a scam operation

Thai police say a Chinese actor who disappeared and was found near the border of Myanmar in an area where online scam networks operate was a victim of human trafficking

Missing Chinese actor found in Myanmar may have been trafficking victim, Thai officials say

A Chinese actor who went missing last week near the Thai-Myanmar border has been found in Myanmar and may have been the victim of human trafficking, Thai authorities said on Tuesday

Myanmar releases thousands of prisoners to mark Independence Day

Myanmar’s military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates’ sentences as part of a mass amnesty to mark the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain

Myanmar junta to free 5,864 prisoners under amnesty

Myanmar's military government will release 5,864 prisoners, including 180 foreigners, under an amnesty marking the Southeast Asian nation's independence day, state media said on Saturday.

Malaysia doubles patrols to find Myanmar migrant boats after nearly 200 detained

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's coastguard said on Friday it was doubling patrols in its waters to locate boats carrying undocumented Myanmar migrants, after almost 200 were detained on an island in the

Myanmar says 2024 census shows population of 51.3 million

Myanmar said its 2024 census found a population of 51.3 million, slightly smaller than 10 years ago, as the junta prepares for promised elections amid ongoing conflict and

Initial results of imprecise census in Myanmar show a slight population drop

Myanmar’s military government has announced that provisional results of a census taken in October put the Southeast Asian nation’s population at about 51.3 million, a slight drop from the last official nationwide count of about 51.5 million taken 10 years ago

Thailand says no evidence of bank transactions for Myanmar weapons

Thailand's central bank and anti-money laundering agency said on Monday that they have not found any evidence to support a report from a U.N. expert that some of the country's

The water was their livelihood. Now Thailand's sea nomads work to preserve a vanishing way of life

The Moken, a group of indigenous people from Thailand and Myanmar, once sailed freely between the archipelago of 800 islands off the coast of the two countries

Myanmar rebels say they have taken junta's western regional command

A rebel army in Myanmar said it had captured a major military headquarters in the country's west, marking the fall of the junta's second regional command as it faces mounting setbacks

Sri Lanka's navy rescues 102 Rohingya refugees found adrift aboard a fishing trawler

Sri Lanka's navy says it has rescued more than 100 people believed to be Rohingya refugees who were found adrift aboard a fishing trawler off the island nation

ASEAN will want inclusive Myanmar election, Thailand says

Thailand has told Myanmar's junta that ASEAN members would want all stakeholders included in an election the military government plans to hold next year, even as

Fighters from Myanmar civil war aggravate bitter ethnic conflict in India

Indian militant groups that took refuge in Myanmar and fought in its civil war have been streaming back across the border to Manipur state this year, Indian

Myanmar junta's top diplomat briefs regional meeting on election progress, Thailand says

The foreign minister of Myanmar on Thursday informed a regional meeting of its neighbours of its progress towards holding elections next year in the war-torn country, Thailand's

Myanmar's junta pushed election plan in talks with neighbours

The top diplomat of Myanmar's ruling junta briefed neighbouring countries on its plans to hold an election next year amid an escalating civil war, including

Thailand to host two regional meetings focused on Myanmar this week

Thailand said on Monday it will host two regional meetings on Myanmar this week, with at least one to have representatives of the junta, as the Malaysian Prime Minister said

UN drug experts say opium production has leveled off in Myanmar, but instability may trigger a rise

U.N. experts say there has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, but warn there are still strong prospects for future expansion of the deadly trade

Son of Aung Sang Suu Kyi is worried about her health in detention and about Myanmar's violent crisis

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi says he has always avoided talking to the media, but this time is different

Myanmar state media say 12 people are missing after a boat capsized and sank in a northwest river

Twelve people are reported missing including three members of the security forces after a boat capsized and sank in a river in the Sagaing region of northwestern Myanmar

Heavy flooding in southern Myanmar displaces more than 14,000 people

Flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Myanmar’s southern areas has displaced more than 14,000 people and disrupted traffic on the rail lines that connect the country’s biggest cities

US condemns Myanmar refugee camp strike, calls it 'military attack'

The United States on Tuesday condemned what it called a reported "military attack" in Myanmar on a refugee camp that led to the killing of several civilians.

Myanmar's military is accused of bombing a displacement camp in a northern state, killing about 30

Myanmar’s military is accused of launching an airstrike on a camp for displaced persons in the northern state of Kachin that killed about 30 people, including about a dozen children

Myanmar's military seeks to keep ethnic minority allies on its side with anniversary of cease-fire

Myanmar’s military government has hosted representatives from ethnic rebel groups to mark the eighth anniversary of the signing of a multilateral cease-fire agreement

Myanmar reinstates family visits to prisoners to end a ban started during the pandemic

Military-ruled Myanmar is allowing prisoners to have family visitors from outside

Alliance of 3 ethnic rebel groups carries out coordinated attacks in northeastern Myanmar

An alliance of ethnic rebel groups has launched a coordinated offensive in northeastern Myanmar to seize military targets in areas near the Chinese border

In Myanmar, a Facebook post deemed inflammatory led to an ex-minister's arrest

A former high-profile Myanmar army officer who had served as information minister and presidential spokesperson in a previous military-backed government has been arrested and charged with spreading false or inflammatory news

Researchers hope tracking senior Myanmar army officers can ascertain blame for human rights abuses

A group of human rights researchers has officially launched a website they hope will facilitate the task of obtaining justice for victims of state violence in Myanmar

Military-ruled Myanmar hosts joint naval exercise with Russia, its close ally and top arms supplier

State media in Myanmar says the military-run Southeast Asian nation is holding its first joint naval exercise with Russia

Myanmar military court sentences general ousted from ruling council to 5 years for corruption

A military court in Myanmar has sentenced a general who until recently was a senior member of the country’s ruling council to five years in prison for abusing his authority and taking bribes

An ethnic resistance group in northern Myanmar says an entire army battalion has surrendered to it

A Myanmar army battalion based near the Chinese border has reportedly surrendered to an alliance of ethnic armed groups that launched a surprise offensive last month in the country’s northeast

Nearly 1,000 Rohingya refugees arrive by boat in Indonesia’s Aceh region in one week

Almost 1,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar have arrived by boat in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh in the last six days

Myanmar's military is losing ground against coordinated nationwide attacks, buoying opposition hopes

A major offensive against Myanmar's military-run government by an alliance of three militias of ethnic minorities has been moving at lightning speed, inspiring resistance forces around the country to attack

2 boats adrift in the Andaman Sea with 400 Rohingya aboard desperately need rescue, UN says

Aid groups and the United Nations say an estimated 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats adrift in the Andaman Sea could die if more is not done to rescue them

China raises stakes in cyberscam crackdown in Myanmar, though loopholes remain

China has intensified a crackdown on online scams operated in border areas of Myanmar

Myanmar's army is facing battlefield challenges and grants amnesty to troops jailed for being AWOL

Reports from Myanmar say its military government has been freeing soldiers and police who had been jailed for desertion and absence without leave as authorities seek to get them to return to active duty

Indonesia's navy pushes a boat suspected of carrying Rohingya refugees out of its waters

Indonesia’s navy says it forcibly pushed a boat packed with refugees back to international waters after the vessel approached the shores of Aceh province

Myanmar confirms a key northeastern city on border with China has been seized by an ethnic alliance

Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it withdrew its forces from a key city on the northeastern border with China after it was taken over by an alliance of ethnic armed groups it has been battling for months

Air attack in northwestern Myanmar kills 17, including children, but military denies responsibility

Airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on a village under the control of the pro-democracy resistance in the country’s northwest are reported to have killed at least 17 civilians, including nine children

A veteran diplomat from Laos, the new ASEAN special envoy for Myanmar, embarks on inaugural mission

A veteran Laotian diplomat recently appointed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ special envoy to Myanmar, has arrived on his first mission to the strife-torn nation

Myanmar's military says it and ethnic guerrilla groups have agreed to an immediate cease-fire

Myanmar’s military says it has reached a cease-fire agreement with an alliance of three ethnic minority guerrilla groups that it has been battling in the north

Beijing may have brokered a fragile truce in northern Myanmar – but it can’t mask China’s inability to influence warring parties

Beijing is losing patience with Myanmar’s military, as well as its influence with resistance groups.

Churches, temples and monasteries regularly hit by airstrikes in Myanmar, activists say

A study issued Tuesday by researchers collecting evidence of war crimes in Myanmar supported reports that air strikes by the military government damaged churches in the Buddhist-dominated country’s sole Christian-majority state

After family feud, Myanmar court orders auction of home where Suu Kyi spent 15 years' house arrest

A court in military-controlled Myanmar has ordered the family home of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, where she spent 15 years under house arrest, be put on auction in March following a decades-long legal dispute between her and her brother

Tensions simmering in the South China Sea and violence in Myanmar as Laos takes over ASEAN chair

Simmering tensions in the South China Sea

Vise tightening on Myanmar's economy 3 years after military takeover triggered civil strife

Myanmar was a rising star in Southeast Asia before its military seized power three years ago in a takeover that has brought civil strife and a tightening vise of international sanctions, undoing years of progress and leaving the economy 10% smaller than it was in 2019

Myanmar's resistance forces suggest terms for the military's eventual handover of power

Myanmar’s leading resistance group and allied ethnic armed groups battling the military government have released a political road map to ending military rule and enabling a peaceful transition of power

Myanmar resistance movement senses the tide is turning against the military 3 years after takeover

When the army overthrew Myanmar’s elected government in 2021, it looked like a walkover that could entrench the military in power indefinitely

US lawmakers to press for humanitarian action on Myanmar

Members of the House of Representatives on Thursday will launch the first bipartisan caucus on Myanmar to pressure U.S. administrations to act on the crisis in

3 years on from coup, economic sanctions look unlikely to push Myanmar back to democracy

Economic proscriptions by the US and EU are hampered by lack of support among Myanmar’s major trading partners in the region.

For the first time, Myanmar forces flee into Bangladesh during fighting with an ethnic armed group

A Bangladesh official says more than 100 members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police have fled their posts and taken shelter in Bangladesh during fighting between Myanmar security forces and an ethnic minority army

9 UN Security Council members urge a halt to airstrikes by Myanmar's military

Nine members of the United Nations Security Council have condemned “indiscriminate” airstrikes by Myanmar’s military against civilians

Facing setbacks against resistance forces, Myanmar's military government activates conscription law

Myanmar’s military government has for the first time activated a decade-old conscription law that makes young men and women subject to at least two years of military service if called up, effective immediately

Myanmar will start drafting 5,000 people a month into the military soon. Some think of fleeing

Myanmar’s military government says it will draft 60,000 young men and women yearly for military service under its newly activated conscription law, with call-ups beginning after the April festival marking the country’s traditional New Year

Many in Myanmar consider fleeing to Thailand to escape conscription into an army they despise

Ever since Myanmar's military announced it is implementing conscription to fill its ranks, Thwel sees very few options

China and Myanmar likely to be high on the agenda when Southeast Asian leaders meet in Australia

An increasingly assertive China and a humanitarian crisis in Myanmar are likely to be high on the agenda when Southeast Asian leaders meet in Australia for a rare summit this week

UN's Guterres decries violence in Myanmar as military airstrikes kill at least 25 Rohingya in west

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed concern over the escalating violence in Myanmar after reports and residents of the country's western Rakhine state said military airstrikes killed at least 25 members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority, including children

No bidders in court-ordered auction of house where Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi was detained for years

No bidders appeared at a court-ordered auction of the family home of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, where she had been held under house arrest for nearly 15 years

A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim migrants capsizes off Indonesia’s Aceh province

A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims capsized about 16 miles from the coastline of Kuala Bubon beach in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh on Wednesday

Weeping, weak and soaked, dozens of Rohingya refugees rescued after night on hull of capsized boat

An Indonesian search and rescue ship has located a capsized wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees, and began pulling survivors who had been standing on its hull to safety

Indonesia's rescue of Rohingya refugees at sea is a reminder of an ordeal that began in Myanmar

A dramatic story of survival and rescue off Indonesia’s west coast is a reminder of the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar who make extremely dangerous voyages across the Indian Ocean to seek better lives

Thailand sends aid to war-torn Myanmar, but critics say it will only help junta

Thailand delivered its first batch of humanitarian aid to war-torn Myanmar on Monday, sending ten trucks over the border from the northern province of Tak in what officials hope will be a continuing effort to ease the plight of millions of people displaced by fighting

Myanmar resistance group says its drones hit targets in the capital, but army says it shot them down

Myanmar’s main pro-democracy resistance group says its armed wing launched drone attacks on the airport and a military headquarters in the capital, Naypyitaw, but the country’s ruling military said it destroyed the drones as they attacked

UN human rights body backs measures against Myanmar and investigations in Iran

The U.N.’s leading human rights body has agreed to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar and Iran, whose governments have been accused of using violence against their own people

Ethnic guerrillas in Myanmar look set to seize an important town on the Thai border from military

Guerrilla fighters from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority are claiming to be close to seizing control of a major trading town bordering Thailand

Rohingya who moved to island in Bangladesh are learning job skills, says Japanese charity chief

The chairman of Japan’s Nippon Foundation says the charity will spend $2 million to help move tens of thousands more Rohingya refugees to a remote island in Bangladesh and provide them with skills training

Myanmar military begins basic training for draftees as resistance forces keep the pressure on

Myanmar’s military has begun basic training at military bases and schools across the country for draftees called up under the country’s recently activated conscription law

Thai foreign minister urges Myanmar's military to avoid violent attack on border town its army lost

Thailand’s foreign minister says he has urged Myanmar’s military authorities not to violently respond to its army’s loss of an important border trading town to its opponents

Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from a Myanmar prison to house arrest due to heat wave

Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest

About 1,300 people from Myanmar flee into Thailand after clashes broke out in a key border town

Officials in Thailand say about 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand as fresh fighting erupted at a border town that has recently been captured by ethnic guerillas

Ethnic Karen guerrillas in Myanmar leave a town that army lost 2 weeks ago as rival group holds sway

Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Myanmar’s military government have withdrawn from the eastern border town of Myawaddy two weeks after forcing the army to give up its defense

Thailand urges bigger ASEAN role in resolving Myanmar conflict

Thailand called on Friday for the regional bloc ASEAN to take a more proactive role in trying to resolve the crisis in military-ruled Myanmar, after weeks of fighting near its

Myanmar warlord at centre of battle for key border town

Armed soldiers loyal to a turncoat warlord patrol the streets of southeastern Myanmar's frontier town of Myawaddy, as troops of the ruling junta and rebels jostle for control of the outpost

Myanmar rebel group withdraws troops from key town on Thai border

An armed ethnic group in Myanmar has withdrawn its troops from a town along the Thai border following a counteroffensive by the ruling junta from whom rebel fighters wrested the key trading

Thai King approves ex-diplomat Maris as foreign minister

Retired diplomat Maris Sangiampongsa has been endorsed as the country's new foreign minister by Thailand's king, the official Royal Gazette said on Wednesday.

India deports Myanmar refugees who fled 2021 coup

India on Thursday deported the first group of Myanmar refugees who had sought shelter after a 2021 military coup, a top state minister said, following

Fighting flares at Myanmar-Thai border as rebels target stranded junta troops

Fighting raged at Myanmar's eastern frontier with Thailand on Saturday, both governments said, forcing 3,000 civilians to flee as rebels fought to flush out Myanmar junta troops holed up

In Myanmar war, crucial window looms for junta and rebels

In the jungles of southeastern Myanmar's Dawna Hills, rebels from an armed ethnic group are fighting to hold back columns of reinforcements sent by the country's ruling junta to try to

Cambodia's former PM urges Myanmar junta chief to allow video call with Suu Kyi

Cambodia's former Prime Minister Hun Sen asked Myanmar's ruling general on Tuesday to allow him to speak to detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on a video call, a request

Myanmar junta reiterates election plan after ex-Cambodia PM seeks Suu Kyi access

Myanmar's military chief discussed plans to hold an election in the country with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen in talks this week, a senior official said, even as the ruling junta faces

Reports of army killing of villagers in Myanmar supported by photos and harrowing tale of a survivor

Reports that soldiers of Myanmar’s military government last week carried out a massacre of more than 30 civilians in a village in central Myanmar have been supported in interviews with a local administrator and a man who says he survived the killings

As ethnic armed group claims to have captured a town in western Myanmar, Muslim Rohingyas flee again

A powerful ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military government in the country’s western state of Rakhine is claiming to have seized a town near the Bangladesh border, marking the latest victory for foes of the country’s military government

Myanmar rebel group claims control of town, denies targeting Rohingya

A powerful armed ethnic group in Myanmar said on Sunday it had won control over a town in the western state of Rakhine after weeks of fighting, denying accusations it had targeted members

UN warns of rise in violence in Myanmar's Rakhine, US and EU express alarm

The United Nations human rights office on Friday warned there was a risk of a serious rise in violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, where it received "frightening and disturbing

UN human rights office decries beheadings, other violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state

The U.N. human rights office has warned of “frightening and disturbing reports” about the impact of new violence in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine and new attacks on Rohingya civilians by the army and an ethnic armed group fighting it

Myanmar's Rohingya in the crosshairs as fighting escalates in Rakhine