May Day Held in Yangon

They see her visit and April victory as a hopeful sign of change for their difficult conditions as migrant workers in Thailand....

June 29, 2016

Textile factory workers in Yangon, Myanmar, protest for wages that have remain unpaid since November 2015....

January 13, 2016

The $3.6 billion Myitsone Dam was supposed to generate electricity for neighboring China....

August 28, 2015

Police in Letpadan used clubs and rocks against protesters earlier this month....

May 25, 2015

Factories in industrial zones near Mandalay dump pollutants into local rivers. ...

May 25, 2015

Land grab victims in Myanmar are increasingly emboldened to demand their property back....

August 28, 2015

Around 120 families live off of the garbage site, selling the plastic bottles and tin cans they find....

August 11, 2016

Mandalay City Development Committee has announced that the 1440 flats, in 20 six-storey buildings, will be completed by October a...

May 27, 2015

Protesters against Mandalay University for parking land confiscation.The protestors claim they lost their land under government r...

May 27, 2015

Almost half of Myanmar’s 26 species of fresh water and land turtles face extinction as humans capture them for illegal wildlife t...

June 21, 2017

Rents in the commercial capital Yangon have more than doubled in the past two years....

August 28, 2015

The wife of reporter Aung Kyaw Naing says doctors found bullet wounds and signs of torture....

May 25, 2015

The demonstrators said the group should be called ‘Bengali,’ and be considered illegal migrants from Bangladesh....

June 14, 2016

Entire regions have been inundated and villages destroyed by the heavy monsoon rains that have flooded the Irrawaddy River....

August 11, 2016

Myanmar's military-drafted constitution prevents Aung San Suu Kyi from becoming president....

August 28, 2015