Myanmar officials have appealed for calm amid swine flu deaths, but it hasn’t always worked.
Lawmakers in Naypyidaw have approved a motion by the ruling National League for Democracy party (NLD) to open discussion of a U.N. report that sharply criticizes Myanmar’s treatment of its Rohingya minority. The move could lead the government to refuse to accept the U.N. document.
Advocates in Myanmar say amendments to controversial online defamation law welcome but not enough.
A lack of transparency surrounding a high-profile case involving three journalists is raising concerns over the trial's independence.
With just over a month until Myanmar’s landmark elections, there are rising concerns over the use of religion to stoke fears and marginalize minorities.
Myanmar's election commission has announced its second round of voter lists for the upcoming general elections, the first since decades of military rule ended in 2011.
A Rohingya refugee who recently came to Cambodia as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia, is preparing to leave.
Myanmar's president on Monday signed into law the last of four controversial bills championed by radical Buddhists but decried by rights groups as aimed at discriminating against the country's Muslim minority.
"As for the happenings in the middle of the night, this is not what you expect from a working democracy," Aung San Suu Kyi said.
A tense situation has developed at the headquarters of Myanmar's ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), where those attending a party meeting are not being allowed to leave by security forces.
The United Nations is stepping up its emergency aid to Myanmar, where massive floods have killed at least 96 people in the country's Irrawaddy delta region.
The United States says it will announce an aid package to help floods victims in Myanmar, as international aid efforts have accelerated after the disaster affected tens of thousands across the country.
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