'We recognise the human rights and citizen rights of the R...
General Twan Mrat Naing Reuters file photo
The Arakan or the Rakhine state of Myanmar is a close neighbour of Bangladesh and...
As US cries ‘genocide’ at China for Xinjiang, its silence...
December 24 ,2021
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By: Maria Siow
Rohingya children wait for food aid at a refugee camp in Bangladesh in 2017 after fleeing the violence in Myanmar. Photo: AP
Why h...
More bodies found after landslide at Myanmar jade mine, sc...
December 24 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Rescuers are seen after a landslide at a jade mine in the Hpakant area of Kachin State, Myanmar. Photo: Reuters
Rescuers in northe...
Myanmar’s NUG warns coup-coddling foreign businesses
December 23 ,2021
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By: Dominic Oo
Anti-coup protesters show their support for Myanmar's National Unity Government. Photo: Jose Lopes Amaral / NurPhoto via AFP
YANGO...
Luxury jewellers risk funding military abuses in Myanmar:...
December 22 ,2021
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By: SAM Report
A ruby cutter inspects a ruby at his work place in Mogkok on February 28, 2014 [File: Soe Zeya Tun/ Reuters]
An anti-corruption gr...
Shringla to visit Myanmar, in first outreach to military r...
December 22 ,2021
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By: Suhasini Haidar
Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla | Photo Credit: Srikrishnan P.C.
To discuss security concerns, humanitarian aid and d...
Myanmar court postpones verdict in Aung San Suu Kyi trial
December 21 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Aung San Suu Kyi's supporters say the cases against her are baseless and designed to end her political career [File: Ann Wang/Reuters...
Nobel laureate faces two years in jail after being sentenc...
December 18 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A pro-democracy activist holds a picture of Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest in Tokyo last week. Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Ge...
Widening US sanctions make it harder to invest in Myanmar,...
December 18 ,2021
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By: Tan Hui Yee
Few expect the sanctions declared on Dec 10 to change the status quo in Myanmar's political crisis.PHOTO: REUTERS
BANGKOK - Top Un...
As Covid-19 case hits Blinken trip, Myanmar may offer path...
December 17 ,2021
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By: Jitsiree Thongnoi
Thai PM Prayuth Chan-ocha. Photo: Reuters
The cancellation of a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Thailand&nbs...
Hundreds seek safety in Thailand after Myanmar junta clash...
December 17 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A Thai government official in Tak province said 700 people had crossed the border, and would be given food and shelter. (Reuters)...
Myanmar journalist reported to have died in military custo...
December 15 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Ko Soe Naing is the first journalist known to have died in custody since the army seized power in February [Reporters Without Borde...
Myanmars divided state leaves thousands of its people in t...
December 15 ,2021
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By: Hunter Marston
More than ten months after the coup and a protracted conflict that has produced a political and military stalemate, the struggle in Mya...
U.S. weighing more action on Myanmar, 'genocide' label: Bl...
December 15 ,2021
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By: P Prem Kumar
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, is hosted by Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah on Dec. 15. (Photo co...
Myanmar shadow government approves crypto as official curr...
December 15 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar's National Unity Government (NUG) has approved the use of a stablecoin called Tether as official currency [File: Shannon Stap...
Cost of war: Myanmar rebels crowdfund resistance to milita...
December 14 ,2021
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By: Andrew Nachemson
Protesters take part in a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon on July 3, 2021. (Photo by STR / AFP) (AFP)
Bangkok, T...
Can Facebook be blamed for pogroms against Rohingyas in My...
December 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Report
That facebook was used to spread rhetoric that incited carnage in Myanmar is hardly up for debate. According to the lead author of...
Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing accused of crimes against humani...
December 11 ,2021
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By: Ted Regencia
Since the coup, at least 1,305 people, including more than 75 children, have been killed dueto the military crackdown on anti-coup pr...
Myanmar to end Kirin row based on law: investment minister
December 11 ,2021
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By: Yuichi Nitta
Myanmar's Investment and Foreign Economic Relations Minister Aung Naing Oo said in an Dec. 8 interview that he hopes Japan will resta...
Myanmar’s generals want Aung San Suu Kyi locked up forever
December 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The guilty verdicts that a court in Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital, handed down to Aung San Suu Kyi on December 6th were both...
Dangerous data: Telenor’s irresponsible exit from Myanmar...
December 10 ,2021
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By: Lucy Purdon & Patrick Phongsathorn
The daughter of a protester who died in March 2021 during a demonstration against Myanmar’s military coup, cries during her fat...