Video: Burmese refugees come together for violin lessons in Thai border town
MAE SOT, Thailand — Phoe San was one of thousands of Burmese migrants who fled to the Thai border town of Mae Sot after Myanmar’s...
Category : Myanmar
Villagers flee as fighting rocks Myanmar’s delta
Read RFA coverage of these topics in Burmese. War is encroaching into Myanmar’s rice-basket Ayeyarwady River delta, residents said on Tuesday, as fighters from the...
Junta troops forcibly recruit more than 70 young men in Myanmar town
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Authorities in Myanmar forcibly recruited more than 70 young men from a single town in the south-central...
Myanmar children, monks among dozens killed in heavy airstrikes
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Myanmar’s military killed 40 civilians, including Buddhist monks and children, in airstrikes in northern Myanmar as it...
UN chief: Discussing humanitarian aid corridor from Bangladesh to Myanmar
Read this story on BenarNews site. DHAKA, Bangladesh — The United Nations is discussing the possibility of a humanitarian aid corridor to Myanmar from Bangladesh...
Myanmar’s junta seeks to regain air edge with foreign night vision drones
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Chinese- and Russian-made drones using night vision cameras are giving Myanmar’s military junta an advantage in its...
UN chief breaks Ramadan fast with 100,000 Rohingya in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh — The leader of the United Nations and the chief of Bangladesh’s interim government were joined by about 100,000 Rohingya refugees for iftar...
Immigration crackdown in southern China puts Myanmar migrant workers on edge
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Undocumented Myanmar migrant workers in southern China are living in fear amid an increase in raids by...
South Korean county to accept Myanmar refugees amid population decline
TAIPEI, Taiwan – The South Korean county of Yeongyang said it plans to accept refugees from Myanmar as early as the second half of this...
Photos: Colorful harvest festival in Myanmar bustles with visitors
The colorful nine-day Shwe Saryan Pagoda Festival in central Myanmar is alive with vendors and visitors for weeks before it opens on March 14. The...
