Myanmar junta airstrike kills children playing by a church, group says
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Myanmar’s air force bombed a church where displaced people were sheltering near the border with China killing...
Category : Myanmar
Residents in Myanmar feel the crunch as trade with China shuts down
Residents in northern Myanmar are facing shortages of food and other supplies as China imposes restrictions on small-scale, informal trade, Radio Free Asia has learned....
Myanmar junta can order migrant workers home to fight, agency says
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Myanmar’s Ministry of Labor has issued a ruling allowing it to call back overseas workers for military...
Thousands flee fighting in Myanmar’s heartland
Read RFA’s coverage of this topic in Burmese Fierce fighting between junta troops and rebels in central Myanmar’s Sagaing region over the past week has...
Myanmar’s Kachin rebels stop rare earth exports to China
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. An ethnic minority insurgent group in Myanmar has closed crossings it controls on the border with China,...
Myanmar junta bombs insurgent-held gem-mining hub killing 9
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Junta forces bombed a famous ruby-mining town under insurgent control in central Myanmar killing nine people and...
Minister in Myanmar’s ousted government dies days after release
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. A former minister in Aung San Suu Kyi’s ousted government has died shortly after being released from...
India’s Manipur authorities give Myanmar refugees 1-month deadline to return home
Read RFA coverage of this story in Burmese Authorities in the eastern Indian state of Manipur are warning thousands of Myanmar nationals who fled conflict...
Awaiting refugee status, Myanmar nationals in Malaysia struggle, risk deportation
Many of the hundreds of thousands of Myanmar citizens who have fled to Malaysia to escape their country’s turmoil and repression have been in limbo...
