Rakhine rebels seize first police station in Myanmar’s heartland
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. The Arakan Army has seized a police station in the Ayeyarwaddy region, the first in Myanmar’s heartland...
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Myanmar junta bans 7 books with LGBTQ+ themes
Myanmar has banned seven books because of their LGBTQ+ content and will take legal action against their publishers, the military government announced, adding that the...
Myanmar junta bombs Rohingya Muslim village killing 41, rescuers say
The Myanmar air force has bombed a fishing village in Rakhine state killing 41 civilians and wounding 52, most of them Rohingya Muslims, residents involved...
Landowners restrict public access to hundreds of religious sites in Myanmar’s Bagan
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Around 400 ancient religious monuments in Myanmar’s U.N.-designated World Heritage Site of Bagan are located on privately-held...
Myanmar’s Kachin rebels take key town on approach to Bhamo
Ethnic minority Kachin fighters in northern Myanmar captured military camps on the approaches to the major town of Bhamo on Wednesday, another setback for the...
Myanmar junta says it releases 600 political prisoners in mass amnesty
By RFA Burmese Myanmar’s junta has released 5,864 prisoners, including about 600 political prisoners, to mark Independence Day, a spokesman for the military said, but...
31 political prisoners died in prisons across Myanmar in 2024
Read RFA coverage of this story here and here. The death toll of political prisoners in the military junta’s prisons across Myanmar hit 31 in...
Rohingyas’ return to Myanmar uncertain, despite rebel control of Bangladesh border
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. The dream of returning home to Myanmar remains uncertain for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who fled...
Myanmar enacts cybersecurity law that aims to restrict use of VPNs
Myanmar’s junta has enacted a cybersecurity law that will penalize unauthorized provision of virtual private networks, or VPNs, which many people use to circumvent internet...
Air, artillery strikes set grim benchmark for civilian casualties in Myanmar in 2024
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. On the evening of Dec. 27, Myanmar’s military dropped a massive bomb on Pi King village in...
