Myanmar

China repatriates more than 1,000 online scam workers rescued from Myanmar

5:32am February 20, 2025

Thailand, China and Myanmar have coordinated efforts over the past month to shut down the scam centers that bilked victims around the world out of billions of dollars.

How hopes for Myanmar's democracy faded and why leadership is needed (again)

5:41am December 23, 2024

Former U.S. Ambassador Derek Mitchell argues the United States should assert its leadership in helping shape Myanmar's peaceful, just and democratic future.

This photo provided by Kyaw Ko Lin shows a view of Laukkaing city in Shan state, Myanmar on Nov. 20. Myanmar's military government has acknowledged that it withdrew its forces from the city.

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Myanmar says an ethnic alliance has seized a key city bordering China

9:32am January 06, 2024

by The Associated Press

The military government acknowledged it withdrew forces from a 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.

Arfat Ahmed, age 10, photographed on Nov. 8, 2022 as he returns to his family's dwelling with gourd leaves to cook for dinner. This is one of the photos by the four Rohingya photographers honored for drawing attention to the plight of what the U.N. has called the "world's most persecuted minority."

Prize-winning photos by Rohingya: Unseen life in the world's largest refugee camp

2:43pm December 22, 2023

by Gabriel Spitzer

Since 2017 nearly a million Rohingya people have languished in camps in Bangladesh. Four young Rohingya are being honored by the U.N. refugee agency for documenting their life in vivid photos.

Rescue workers remove the fallen tress after a storm in Teknaf, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Sunday, May 14, 2023. Bangladesh and Myanmar braced Sunday as a severe cyclone started to hit coastal areas and authorities urged thousands of people in both countries to seek shelter.

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A powerful cyclone has made landfall in Myanmar, killing at least three

7:26am May 14, 2023

by The Associated Press

Thousands of people hunkered down Sunday, seeking shelter from a powerful storm that slammed into the coast of Myanmar, tearing the roofs off buildings and killing at least three people.

Rohingya refugees look on after a major fire in their Balukhali camp at Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, Sunday, March 5, 2023.

Massive fire tears through a crowded Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh

4:09pm March 06, 2023

by Destinee Adams

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to UNICEF's Ezatullah Majeed about a fire in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh that displaced thousands of people who had fled a military crackdown in Myanmar.

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A member of Pat Jasan, a grassroots organization motivated by their faith to root out the destructive influence of drugs, holds poppies as his group slashes and uproots them from a hillside, in Lung Zar village, northern Kachin State, Myanmar on Feb. 3, 2016.

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Opium is surging in Myanmar, a top heroin producer, since its military took over

3:49pm January 26, 2023

by The Associated Press

The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power as the faltering economy has led more people toward the drug trade, according to a new United Nations report.

Prison security officials prepare for the release of inmates outside Insein prison in Yangon on November 17, 2022.

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Myanmar reportedly will release 4 foreigners as part of a broad prisoner amnesty

4:01am November 17, 2022

by Michael Sullivan

Myanmar's expected release of more than 5,700 prisoners is expected to include the U.K.'s former envoy to the Asian country, an Australian economist and a Japanese filmmaker, according to state media.

Protesters show the three finger salute and hold photos of detained Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in July outside the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok during a demonstration against the Myanmar military junta's execution of four prisoners.

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Aung San Suu Kyi is convicted again in Myanmar, alongside an Australian adviser

11:21am September 29, 2022

by Michael Sullivan

The former prime minister was sentenced to three years for violating the official secrets act, on top of a 20-year sentence already handed down by the military junta that took power in 2021.

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Myanmar authorities detain the U.K.'s former ambassador to the country

10:48pm August 25, 2022

by Michael Sullivan

Vickie Bowman and her husband were detained for sending information to an activist group and others opposed to military rule, a senior military official said.