When Than Dar first approached authorities in mid-October to find her missing husband, he was already dead. In late September, Aung Kyaw Naing had been covering renewed fighting between a band of ...

A day before he was killed in the military’s brutal crackdown on Myanmar’s protests, IT engineer Nyi Nyi Aung Htet Naing posted on Facebook asking “how many dead bodies” were needed before the world ...

Myanmar authorities charged detained Development Media Group journalist Htet Aung with terrorism but did not inform his family and lawyers until May, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your ...

YANGON (AFP) - The body of a journalist shot dead while in the Myanmar army's custody has been exhumed and sent for an autopsy, a witness said Wednesday, after his death sparked international concern.

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Myanmar, also known as Burma, has experienced many armed insurrections in the nearly 70 years of civil war since the country gained independence from Britain in 1948. Triggered by communist and ethnic ...

Aung Naing (right) was close to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi A Burmese journalist has been shot dead while trying to escape from custody, the army has said. A military statement said that Aung ...

What kind of steps can be taken to reduce financial speculation and ensure the availability of affordable land for industrial projects? U AUNG ZAW NAING: The increase in land prices has been ...

Under the special arrangement, Myanmar will accept Rupee payments for all its exports to India and use that rupee hoard to import from here Aung Naing Oo, Union Minister, Ministry of Commerce, ...

A Burmese journalist has been shot dead while trying to escape from custody, the army has said. A military statement said that Aung Naing was arrested in Mon state at the end of September while ...