Myanmar

Fighters from the Karenni National Defence Force, a network of civilian resistance fighters, Karenni organisations and armed groups in Kayah State. (KNDF / Kantarawaddy Times)

Acting president of the National Unity Government (NUG), Duwa Lashi La, called for revolt in “every corner of the country” against the regime.

Rohingya detainees step out of a police van upon arriving at the court in the western Myanmar city of Pathein ahead of a hearing on December 11, 2019. (STR / AFP)

Nearly 100 Rohingya appeared in a Myanmar court Wednesday after being arrested for trying to flee persecution, their lawyer said, as leader Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the UN's top court to deny allegations of a genocidal campaign against the ethnic minority.

Activists challenge the status quo at a pro-Aung San Suu Kyi rally in downtown Yangon on December 10. (Aung Htet Myat)

Dissenting voices within Myanmar are challenging the status quo that everyone must support Aung San Suu Kyi as she defends her country against genocide accusations in The Hague.

Swe Zin Htet representing Myanmar at the Miss Universe competition in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States. (Supplied)

Miss Myanmar Swe Zin Htet leaves the pageant as a new champion for her country’s marginalised LGBTQ community.

Monks line up for alms during the alms-giving ceremony to 30,000 monks organize by the region government of Mandalay affiliated with Dhammakaya Foundation at Chanmyathazi Airport. (Kyaw Zay Win)

Thirty-thousand monks assembled in the early morning chill in Myanmar on Sunday for a spectacular alms-giving event, partly organised by a controversial mega-temple under scrutiny across the border in Thailand.

Ambulance service volunteers remove the body of the German tourist in Shan state. (Facebook)

A German tourist was killed and an Argentine woman injured in a landmine explosion in Myanmar's eastern Shan state, local police said Wednesday, days after the country was shamed over its continuing use of the weapons.

Myanmar local officials check the abandoned boat of Rohingya Muslims washed ashore in Kyauktan township south of Yangon on November 16, 2018. (Myo Kyaw Soe / AFP)

Twenty-two Rohingya Muslims trying to escape one of Myanmar's camps by boat were arrested after they were forced ashore by their leaking vessel, local police said Friday.

Aung San Suu Kyi (C) and the Myanmar military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (R) arrive for the handover ceremony at the presidential palace in Naypyidaw on March 30, 2016. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)

Both Myanmar's military and its civilian government are behind the decision for Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to defend her country against allegations of genocide at the UN's top court, an army spokesman said Thursday.

A Bangladeshi man helps Rohingya Muslim refugees to disembark from a boat on the Bangladeshi shoreline of the Naf river after crossing the border from Myanmar in Teknaf on September 30, 2017. (Fred Dufour / AFP)

The International Criminal Court on Thursday approved a full investigation into Myanmar's alleged crimes against the Rohingya, as the southeast Asian nation faced mounting legal pressure worldwide over their fate.

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