News Myanmar Rakhine: Junta forces Rohingyas to protest ethnic rebels in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
Junta authorities in western Myanmar forced hundreds of Rohingya Muslims to protest an ethnic rebel offensive that has the military on the ropes in Rakhine state – and fining them if they didn’t ...
News Myanmar Rakhine: Why Rakhine State Could Become Myanmar’s First Truly Autonomous Region
Relatively free from foreign influence, the Arakan Army is poised to carve out a large autonomous statelet in western Myanmar. Soldiers from the Arakan Army pose inside the Maung Shwe Lay Navy Base in ...
News Myanmar Rakhine: Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state could face an imminent acute famine, UN report warns
The U.N. Development Programs is warning that Myanmar’s Rakhine state, home to the Rohingya minority and engulfed in conflict between government forces and a powerful ethnic group, could face an imminent acute famine.
News Myanmar Rakhine: Myanmar's Suu Kyi handed five-year jail term for graft
A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail on Wednesday after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases she faces, a source with knowledge of the proceedings said.
News Myanmar Rakhine: Myanmar Resistance Threatens Chinese Mines
Resistance groups in Sagaing Region have threatened to attack Chinese-run copper mines and told miners to quit.
News Myanmar Rakhine: Open Letter Warns China of Attacks on Projects in Myanmar
The letter to President Xi Jinping from 558 organizations says Chinese projects should cease operations until the junta has been toppled.
News Myanmar Rakhine: Myanmar’s poll should have been delayed, says top military chief
The international community is using massive resources (financial ... key to resolving the Rakhine issue, including the repatriation of refugees in Bangladesh? A: Myanmar has not refused the ...
News Myanmar Rakhine: EU weighs new sanctions against Myanmar over Rohingya
“At this stage we do not support financial ... Myanmar’s military, and General Soe Win, his deputy. “The European Union has already taken measures against seven individuals responsible for or ...
News Myanmar Rakhine: Myanmar: Life as a humanitarian in Maungdaw
ICRC's staff in Maungdaw, Myanmar, Naing Naing Oo discusses her humanitarian work in supporting families separated by violence and conflict.
News Myanmar Rakhine: Myanmar teak exports to US still funding military rule: Watchdog
Myanmar received almost $100m in revenues from taxes and royalties on the timber trade in the 2017-18 financial year, while revenues for the entire forestry industry totalled $322m. Myanmar’s ...
News Myanmar Rakhine: U.N. urges sanctions on Myanmar army businesses
JAKARTA--United Nations investigators urged world leaders on Monday to impose targeted financial sanctions ... a persecuted Muslim minority, fled Myanmar's Rakhine state into neighboring ...
