Myanmar

A year since fleeing an army crackdown that the United Nations has called “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”

Win Lae Phyu Sin posts online tutorials on make-up and building confidence for Muslims girls

Most refugees are either jobless or stuck at the bottom of the labour ladder

Investigators have been quietly documenting what the Myanmar Muslim minority suffered in 2017

Vast area of farmland across four provinces lies under muddy water with rescue teams trying to reach villages

An estimated 100,000 people may be affected by the floods

Dozens of people have been killed by landslides this year

Systematic human rights abuses by Myanmar forces were designed to instill terror in the Rohingya population

The military announced Friday that eight people, mostly women, were killed in the clashes

Authorities in mainly Buddhist Myanmar deny carrying out large scale human rights abuses

"Amber hunters" on a quest for a Jurassic Park-style discovery sift through mounds of the precious resin in Myanmar

Transit camp in Myanmar's Rakhine state stands ready to welcome back 150 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh every day

Myanmar's military chief and other top brass have been accused by Amnesty International of crimes against humanity

Myanmar's leaders have come under fire for taking little punitive action against the military

Since August, nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from mainly Buddhist Myanmar's Rakhine state have fled to Bangladesh

Returnees entered Myanmar in different stages over the last four months

Stash worth $18 million was shipped in container from Myanmar

Myanmar military stands accused of carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign against the stateless minority in Rakhine

The government and the autonomy-seeking guerrillas have agreed to peace, raising hopes that the refugees will go home

The bust comes as Thailand is trying to shake off its reputation as a haven for sex tourists

Two Reuters reporters arrested face up to 14 years in prison under accusations they breached Official Secrets Act

Many of the refugees arriving in Bangladesh recounted incidents of killings and rape

The policeman's testimony is an extremely rare case of a security official openly challenging superiors in the country

The council is urging Myanmar to allow the safe return of the Rohingya

Rights groups say the army has stepped up its campaign in remote areas of Myanmar amid the Rohingya crisis

Many Rohingya refugees fear returning to a country where they saw their relatives murdered by soldiers

Rohingya Muslims demand basic rights such as recognition as minority, health, education and safety on Minister's visit

Reporters were jailed for possessing material relating to security operations in Rakhine state

The bloody incident in September last year is the only atrocity to which the military has admitted

Their plight has triggered global alarm over worsening media freedoms in Myanmar

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have been driven out of Rakhine state and are living in crowded refugee camps in Bangladesh

The death toll is now 20, with three people injured

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar's Rakhine after authorities launched crackdown that UN terms 'ethnic cleansing'

United Nations has condemned the army’s campaign against Muslims as ethnic cleansing

Case has aggravated ethnic tensions in a region also roiled by the crackdown on Rohingya Muslims

According to Amnesty International, many of those Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar out of hunger

Envoy says nature of violence changed from frenzied blood-letting, mass rape to terror campaign, forced starvation

Myanmar government’s motto of destroying-to-rebuild Rohingya communities is highly dubious

The bombs exploded in three different locations around Rakhine state

"hate-filled rhetoric" by leaders was normalising discrimination against minorities

Police says they were investigating but had no word on possible suspects

Myanmar is the second-largest opium producer in the world after Afghanistan

Farmers turning to tech to address knowledge gap in a country where two thirds of workforce is employed in agriculture

Despite these small peace efforts, borderlands still embroiled in often drug-fuelled unrest

Action will be taken against 10 members of Myanmar’s security forces for killings of captured Rohingya Muslims

Killings in coastal village of Inn Din mark another bloody episode in the ethnic violence sweeping northern Rakhine

US President vows to deepen military, economic ties with India, as he seeks to balance China’s posture across Asia

G-8 ask the security council to discuss the fate of displaced Rohingyas

Government spokesperson Zaw Htay confirmed the attack, without speculating on a possible motive

The arrest was made at a refugee camp as tension grows over plans to repatriate the displaced Muslims to Myanmar