May Day Held in Yangon

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

May 25, 2015

Family and friends hold a prayer vigil to remember two kachin teachers and journalist Kopargyi who were murdered last year. ...

May 27, 2015

The exiled Chin Christians of Myanmar today staged a demonstration at Jantar Mantar here to protest against the removal of the Ho...

May 27, 2015

Protests have become common as Myanmar pursues democratic reforms....

August 28, 2015

The students are protesting a new education law they say puts limits on academic freedom. ...

May 25, 2015

The protesters are calling for an end to the use of the term ‘Rohingya’ to refer to a persecuted Muslim minority group....

June 14, 2016

Large numbers of civilians from the Rohingya Muslim minority and the Buddhist majority are fleeing armed conflict in northwest My...

September 07, 2017

They say the bill puts limits on academic freedom. ...

August 28, 2015

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

January 13, 2016

Some of the structures in northwest Myanmar's Rakhine state date back more than 2,500 years....

August 28, 2015

Workers from Yangon industrial parts are protesting to increase their wages,at the same time, government is setting the minimum w...

May 27, 2015

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

May 10, 2016

Environmentalists say the problem is getting worse due to rampant deforestation and river dredging in Myanmar....

August 28, 2015

Militants attacked police stations, military posts and civilian buildings in the Kokang region near Myanmar’s border with China....

April 18, 2017

Preservationists in Yangon are trying to save the city's architectural past....

August 28, 2015