A baby slept peacefully under a mosquito net oblivious to hundreds of evacuated flood victims lined up for food at a monastery in Myanmar on Saturday, all waiting for water levels to recede before they can return home.Floods and landslides caused by...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Thursday up to 40 aid workers have been killed in Myanmar since the military coup that ousted democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021.In a report to the body's Human Rights Council, Turk condem...

Asian drug trafficking networks are increasingly using sea routes to smuggle methamphetamines out of Myanmar and ramping up ketamine production as they seek to expand their business, the UN said Friday.Meth from coup-hit Myanmar's northeastern Shan s...

By AFPMothers who have lost sons, young women training as combat medics -- none of Myanmar's population has been left untouched by the tumult that has engulfed the country since a military coup two years ago.From striking civil servants on the run to...

By AFPMyanmar authorities have sentenced 112 Rohingya, including a dozen children, to between two and five years in prison for attempting to travel to Malaysia "without legal documents", state media reported Tuesday.The group were arrested last month...

By AFPThe UN Security Council called for Myanmar's junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi Wednesday as it adopted its first ever resolution on the situation in the turmoil-ridden Southeast Asian country.The 15-member Council has been split on Myanmar for...

By AFPSoutheast Asian politicians called Tuesday for the rescue of a boat carrying as many as 200 Rohingya refugees including women and children stranded at sea for several weeks.Thousands of the mostly MuslimRohingya, heavily persecuted in Myanmar,...

By AFPA Japanese journalist released from Myanmar in a prisoner amnesty called on Monday for Tokyo to put more pressure on the junta and accept refugees fleeing the Southeast Asian country.Toru Kubota spent three-and-a-half months in prison after bei...

By AFPAt least two bombs exploded outside a prison in Myanmar's commercial hub Yangon on Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 18, the junta said.The blasts hit a crowd lining up to drop off parcels for inmates at Insein Prison on Wednesday mo...

By AFPMore than one million people have been displaced in Myanmar since the military coup last year, the United Nations children's agency has said.The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's government...

By AFPAt least 11 schoolchildren died in an air strike and firing on a Myanmar village, the United Nations children's agency said, an attack the country's junta said targeted rebels hiding in the area.Myanmar has been in chaos since the military seiz...

The leader of Myanmar's military junta will travel to Russia next week for economic talks, state media in the Southeast Asian nation reported Saturday.Min Aung Hlaing's visit comes as both governments face diplomatic isolation -- Moscow for its Febru...