Myanmar
Acting president of the National Unity Government (NUG), Duwa Lashi La, called for revolt in “every corner of the country” against the regime.
NASA is developing a new technique to forecast malaria outbreaks in Myanmar from space, as the emergence of new drug-resistant strains in Southeast Asia threatens efforts to wipe out the deadly disease globally.
Demonstrators backing a Kachin activist who was jailed for handing a judge broken scales of justice gathered near Myitkyina township court yesterday for the third rally in five days.
A judge has filed a lawsuit against an activist who gave him broken scales after receiving 15-days’ imprisonment for his part in an anti-war street performance in Kachin capital Myitkyina.
UN rights experts voiced alarm Tuesday at the Myanmar military's incommunicado detention of Rakhine men and boys, as well as allegations of torture and deaths in custody.
Sinon Loresca has toured Yangon and Mandalay—and caused an internet storm along the way.
Myanmar said its military was conducting a rare court martial following a probe into mass graves in crisis-hit Rakhine state, two years after a bloody crackdown drove some 740,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh.
An army helicopter buzzes overhead and ambulances travel up wet empty roads in Myanmar's northeast, ferrying aid to thousands of residents displaced by fresh clashes between rebels and the military.