On a recent Friday night in a Bangkok dive bar, a group of young Myanmar exiles sang softly along to a mournful ballad played on an acoustic guitar. None among the crowd had any plans to leave, either ...

China tried three times to persuade powerful families in northern Myanmar to shut down scam operations before Myanmar police carried out large-scale arrests in 2023, according to a new documentary ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says about 10,000 ⁠people have been sent back to Myanmar since January, despite safety warnings by human rights groups and the United Nations refugee agency.

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned by Malaysia’s recent return of 1,476 people to Myanmar amid the country’s continuing conflict and dire human rights and humanitarian situation. “We ...

Kuala Lumpur plans to send a total of 5,000 Myanmar nationals back to the war-torn country despite persecution concerns Malaysia began sending back about 1,500 Myanmar nationals on Tuesday, the ...

Malaysia has started repatriating about 1,500 Myanmar nationals, defying warnings from the UN and rights groups. Malaysia, facing an uptick in anti-migrant sentiment, says the program is strictly ...

The International Court of Justice is reportedly going to rule in the coming weeks in The Gambia v. Myanmar, the genocide case against Myanmar. In 2019, The Gambia filed an application at the ICJ ...

The United Nations, international officials sometimes joke, is always in crisis. Since its inception in 1945, the organization has had to navigate deep geopolitical tensions, devastating humanitarian ...

US officials made a rare visit to Myanmar this week to secure the release of an American businessman who had been detained in the war-torn country since June. The delegation met with officials of ...

In an endlessly impressive filmography either as a screenwriter for Martin Scorsese-directed classics like Taxi Driver, The Last Temptation of Christ and Raging Bull, to his own prodigious output as a ...

Restrictions on menstrual products in resistance-controlled areas demonstrate how Myanmar’s polycrisis amplifies everyday vulnerabilities. Myanmar’s ongoing conflict has led to a complex polycrisis in ...

Surge in violence linked to new military chief's tactics — ACLED Conflict monitor records more than a dozen mass killings in 2026, over 450 civilians dead Former junta chief turned president Min Aung ...