The number of people in Myanmar who have died in the wake of Typhoon Yagi rose to more than 220, with nearly 80 others still missing, the military government said.
The storm swept through northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar last week, (...)
Myanmar's military government will no longer allow conscription-age men to travel out of the country for work, weeks after an enlistment order prompted many to try and flee.
On Thursday, authorities said they would suspend all applications from men (...)
An auction of the villa of Myanmar's detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi has failed after no bids were made for it.
A court had ordered its sale in January following a long-running ownership dispute with her brother.
Lawyers for Ms Suu Kyi, who has (...)
Almost three years on from its bloody coup, Myanmar's military junta is facing the biggest threat to its hold on power as it fights wars on multiple fronts across the Southeast Asian nation.
In recent weeks, powerful armed ethnic militias have (...)
Myanmar's ruling junta has suspended humanitarian access to western Rakhine state, where more than a million vulnerable people are in urgent need of aid a month after a powerful cyclone devastated the region, the United Nations said.
The UN's (...)
Southeast Asian leaders on Wednesday condemned an armed attack on an aid convoy that the regional bloc had arranged for displaced people in Myanmar while calling for an immediate stop to violence and for the military government to comply with a (...)
The head of Myanmar's military government has pledged to deal decisively with what he called "acts of terror" by armed resistance groups.
Min Aung Hlaing also accused countries critical of his regime's human rights record of being terror (...)
UN special envoy for Myanmar Noeleen Heyzer traveled to the country for the first time since taking up her appointment last October.
Her visit follows the Security Council's latest call for an end to the violence and unimpeded humanitarian access to (...)
Myanmar's military regime has extended its emergency rule until 2023 as the country remains riven by internal fighting following last year's coup.
The junta seized power last year after overthrowing Aung Sung Suu Kyi's democratically-elected (...)
Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi testified in court on Tuesday for the first time since she was overthrown in a military coup, CNN reported.
Her courtroom testimony in the capital Naypyidaw, however, was not publicly available due (...)
Myanmar's deposed President testified on Tuesday that the military tried to force him to relinquish power hours before its February 1 coup, warning him he could be seriously harmed if he refused, CNN reported quoting his lawyer.
The testimony of Win (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday expressed his country's concern over the increase of NATO forces near the Russian border.
NATO is increasing its military capabilities near the Russian borders, Putin said in a speech during the Moscow (...)
Myanmar's deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been charged with corruption by the country's military junta, state media reported on Thursday, adding to a raft of legal cases against the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
The new charge follows an (...)
Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi attended a court hearing on Monday, her first appearance in person since the military seized power on Feb. 1, her defense team said.
Suu Kyi, who has been detained since the coup, held a face-to-face (...)
Myanmar's security forces shot dead a 7-year-old girl in the city of Mandalay on Tuesday, the youngest victim yet in the military's bloody crackdown on civilian opposition to the February 1 coup.
The young girl was killed in her home during a (...)
Two people have been killed and dozens left injured in Myanmar after security forces opened fire on a protest against the junta which has taken power in a military coup.
Police reportedly opened fire with live ammunition in the city of Mandalay on (...)
Myanmar's new ruling junta is releasing tens of thousands of prisoners on Friday as angry protests against the military coup continue for the seventh straight day.
Some 23,314 prisoners are set to be granted amnesty and released on Union Day, a (...)
Myanmar's powerful military has taken control of the country in a coup and declared a state of emergency, following the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior government leaders in early morning raids on Monday.
The country woke up to (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) distributed, in the 19th day of the holy month of Ramadan, 409 food baskets to the needy families in Rakhine (Arakan), Myanmar.
This distribution falls within the framework of humanitarian (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) distributed during the 17th day of the holy month of Ramadan 358 food baskets to the needy families in a number of villages in Rakhine (Arakan), Myanmar.
This distribution comes within the (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) distributed in the 12th day of the holy month of Ramadan 395 Ramadan food baskets to the needy families in Rakhine (Arakan), Myanmar.
This distribution comes within the framework of (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) distributed yesterday 365 food baskets to the needy families in Rakhine (Arakan), Myanmar.
This distribution comes within the framework of humanitarian projects being provided by the Kingdom (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) has distributed 565 food baskets to needy families in the villages of Arkan province, in Myanmar.
The distribution comes within the framework of the humanitarian projects provided by the (...)
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has described European lawmakers as "crazies" in a salty-tongued rebuttal of criticism of his deadly drug war, while vowing again that all traffickers will be killed.
Duterte fired his broadside in a late-night (...)
Myanmar's national police chief has taken personal charge of an investigation into the killing of a prominent lawyer and adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party, police sources said, after leaks and conflicting comments by officers about its (...)
