Myanmar junta bombs hospital days after declaring ceasefire extension
Junta airstrikes on villages in southeast Myanmar destroyed a hospital and forced over 8,000 residents from their homes, leaving them in urgent need of aid,...
Category : Myanmar
Myanmar’s ethnic Karen face food shortages amid aid cuts to camps on Thai border
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Myanmar residents forced to flee their homes for camps across the border in Thailand are facing growing...
Myanmar junta extends post-quake ceasefire despite repeatedly violating it
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Myanmar’s military junta on Tuesday extended a post-quake ceasefire that critics say exists in name only amid...
Myanmar’s Ta’ang army says it won’t give up territory despite junta, Chinese pressure
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. An ethnic army that has been fighting a 10-year battle against Myanmar’s military in Shan state said...
Health workers say disease on rise in Myanmar as aid cuts bite
In conflict-hit zones on the eastern and western border regions of Myanmar, health workers are reporting rising cases of tuberculosis and other diseases amid global...
Reporters’ group calls for release of Myanmar journalist jailed for 5 years
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. The Independent Myanmar Journalists Association is calling for the release of a reporter who was sentenced to...
Myanmar junta chief urges workers to find jobs domestically amid labor shortage
Myanmar’s junta chief told workers to find jobs domestically rather than abroad, citing a labor shortage, despite the country’s severe economic downturn and poor working...
Junta bombs kill 8, injure dozens in northwest Myanmar
Junta aerial attacks in an embattled region of northwest Myanmar killed eight people and injured dozens more, residents told Radio Free Asia on Wednesday. The...
Thousands flee homes amid junta attacks in central Myanmar
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Clashes between Myanmar’s junta and an ethnic army in central Myanmar have forced more than 4,000 people...
One month on, Myanmar’s quake victims see ‘not even a water bottle’ in aid
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Some families have waited one month, hoping to receive critical aid in the aftermath of Myanmar’s earthquake,...
