Myanmar military battles to push rebels back from Chinese economic zone
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Myanmar’s military bombed a village in an economic zone that is vital to China’s investment in Myanmar,...
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Myanmar sends first workers to Russia; junta chief to Belarus
Read RFA coverage of these topics in Burmese. Myanmar has sent workers to Russia for the first time with 24 skilled construction employees setting off...
Myanmar army tries to clear fighters from road, 20,000 villagers flee, rebels say
Read RFA coverage of this story in Burmese. Myanmar’s military has launched air and artillery strikes as it tries to clear pro-democracy fighters from the...
Tougher times for Myanmar’s political prisoners, a parent and rights group say
Read RFA coverage of this story in Burmese. Military authorities in Myanmar have imposed harsher conditions and punishments on political prisoners, restricting their access to...
Nearly 30,000 civilians displaced by fighting in Myanmar’s heartland
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Nearly 30,000 civilians in central Myanmar’s Sagaing and Magway regions were forced to flee their homes in...
Myanmar junta frees nearly 1,000 Rohingya from prison, group says
Myanmar’s military government has released from prison nearly 1,000 members of the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority, a human rights group said on Monday, a rare...
Myanmar militia hosting scam centers says it will deport 8,000 foreigners
Read RFA coverage of these topics in Burmese A pro-junta Myanmar militia hosting extensive online fraud operations in its zone on the Thai border has...
Telecom outages impact livelihoods in Myanmar’s Rakhine
Read RFA coverage of this story in Burmese. Telecommunications outages in western Myanmar’s embattled Rakhine state have persisted for nearly 100 days, impinging on its...
Myanmar refugees in limbo after US suspends resettlement program
Read RFA coverage of this story in Burmese. UMPIEM MAI REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand — Saw Ba had been living in a refugee camp on the...
New Thai rule gives Myanmar junta greater power to block workers: activists
MAE SOT, Thailand – Thailand’s latest labor documentation rule requiring Myanmar government approval has raised concern among migrant worker advocates, who warn the policy could...
