Myanmar town lies in ruins as military and militia clash for control

October 15, 2025

Ten days after Myanmar’s military recaptured Kyaukme, the town in Shan State remains eerily quiet. Schools have reopened, but the once-bustling market is mostly empty, and vendors shut their stalls at the sight of visiting journalists, AP reports. An AP reporter, allowed to enter under military supervision—the only foreign media access permitted—saw extensive damage. Continue Reading

India expelling Rohingyas to Bangladesh, Myanmar without protections: HRW

September 30, 2025

NEWS DESK Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged that Indian authorities have expelled scores of ethnic Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh and Myanmar without rights protections since May 2025. Authorities have arbitrarily detained several hundred more, mistreating some of them, said the New York-based rights body on August 29. In May, states in India governed by […]Continue Reading

Myanmar army razed Rohingya villages to build security outposts, UN-backed report says

September 30, 2025

After the 2017 expulsion of the Muslim minority Rohingya from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the military destroyed villages and mosques and repurposed their lands for security outposts, according to a U.N.-backed investigation released on Monday, REUTERS reports. Violence against the Rohingya escalated dramatically in August 2017 when Myanmar’s military launched an Continue Reading

UN warns Myanmar conflict blocking Rohingya return

September 30, 2025

Bloody fighting between Myanmar’s army and a separatist movement is proving an “insurmountable barrier” to the return of the country’s displaced Rohingya minority, a UN official warned Tuesday, AFP reports. The mostly Muslim Rohingya have been persecuted in Myanmar for decades, with many escaping the 2017 military clampdown labeled a Continue Reading

Students killed at Myanmar boarding school as junta escalates air war

September 15, 2025

A Myanmar military airstrike on a school last week killed at least 19 students, an ethnic militia said, as the war-torn nation’s ruling junta steps up a campaign to retake territory ahead of a planned election in December, Reuters reports. Children were killed and injured at the boarding school in Kyauktaw Township in Myanmar’s restive […]Continue Reading

Fears of starvation in Myanmar as UN warns of ‘disaster’

August 23, 2025

Aid agencies are warning of starvation in war-torn Myanmar’s Rakhine State, with the World Food Programme (WFP) making an urgent appeal for more donations to avoid a “full-blown disaster”, BBC reports. The agency has been trying to feed the rapidly rising number of displaced people in the state, including the 140,000 Rohingya Muslims who have […]Continue Reading

Myanmar to hold 1st phase of general election on 28 Dec, state television reports

August 19, 2025

Myanmar will hold the initial phase of its general election on December 28, state television said on Monday, outlining a roadmap for the first polls in the war-torn country in nearly five years that have already been derided by critics as a sham, Reuters reports. The dates for the subsequent phases of the elections, which […]Continue Reading

Myanmar’s figurehead president dies after long illness

August 8, 2025

Myanmar’s figurehead president who came to power after a 2021 coup, Myint Swe, has died, the South East Asian nation’s military leaders said. He was 74, AP reports. Before his death, Myint Swe had been on medical leave for over a year due to declining health. Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has been performing Myint […]Continue Reading

New political body launched to advocate for Rohingya rights

July 14, 2025

NEWS DESK A group of Rohingya leaders from Myanmar, refugee camps in Bangladesh, and the global diaspora have launched a new political body aimed at unifying and advancing the political struggle of the persecuted minority, Anadolu Agency reports. The Arakan Rohingya National Council (ARNC), officially launched on Sunday, said it will represent the Rohingya people […]Continue Reading

150,000 Rohingya fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh in 18 months: UN

July 14, 2025

Bangladesh has over the past 18 months registered the biggest influx of Rohingya refugees since the mass exodus of Myanmar’s largely Muslim minority nearly a decade ago, the United Nations said Friday, AFP reports. The UN refugee agency said up to 150,000 Rohingya had arrived in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar refugee camps since early 2024. “Targeted […]Continue Reading