Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from a Myanmar prison to house arrest due to heat waveAung San Suu Kyi, 78, and Win Myint, the 72-year-old former president of her ousted government, were among the elderly and infirm prisoners...
17 Apr, 2024, 10.02 AM IST
Former UK envoy to Myanmar Vicky Bowman, husband jailed for allegedly breaching immigration laws, now releasedIn September, Vicky Bowman and her spouse, the Burmese artist Htein Lin, received a year in prison for allegedly breaking Myanmar's Immigra...
17 Nov, 2022, 05.23 PM IST
Myanmar to import Russian oil, military saysRussia is seeking new customers for its energy in the region as its biggest export destination, Europe, will impose an embargo on Russian o...
18 Aug, 2022, 10.24 AM IST
Myanmar executes four democracy activists, drawing condemnation and outrageMyanmar executes four democracy activists, drawing condemnation and outrage.
25 Jul, 2022, 10.09 AM IST
Trial of Myanmar's Suu Kyi taking toll on her health: lawyerOusted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces a raft of charges, from sedition to illegally importing walkie-talkies, which could see her ja...
04 Oct, 2021, 01.46 PM IST
Myanmar military court sentences journalists to jailAung Kyaw, 31, a reporter for the Democratic Voice of Burma, and Zaw Zaw, 38, a freelance reporter for the online news agency Mizzima, were...
03 Jun, 2021, 06.05 PM IST
Myanmar state TV shows Aung San Suu Kyi in court in first pictures since coupSuu Kyi, 75, was shown in the dock, sitting upright with her hands in her lap and wearing a surgical mask. She sits next to ousted presiden...
24 May, 2021, 09.31 PM IST
Myanmar unity government says it must be part of any ASEAN bid to end crisisThe 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been trying to find a way out of the bloody crisis that has racked member ...
18 Apr, 2021, 01.10 PM IST
Six dead as Myanmar security forces fire at protestersThe country has been in chaos since February 1 when the military launched a coup and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, ending Myan...
03 Mar, 2021, 02.02 PM IST
Myanmar military promises new election; Aung San Suu Kyi faces additional chargeSince she was ousted from power, she has already been charged under the country's import and export law for having walkie-talkies in her ho...
17 Feb, 2021, 12.14 AM IST
Myanmar military denies coup, promises to hand back power"Our objective is to hold an election and hand power to the winning party," Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun, spokesman for the ruling council...
16 Feb, 2021, 02.24 PM IST
Explained: Myanmar army flexes muscles as Suu Kyi's government begins second termThe military's allegations of voter list irregularities have been accompanied by cryptic comments about abolishing the constitution that ha...
29 Jan, 2021, 01.58 PM IST
Myanmar ups the ante on fencing along China border as Wang Yi visits YangonHe said barbed-wire fences, which China said were preventing the spread of COVID-19, encroach on neutral land. Foreign ministry from both c...
12 Jan, 2021, 11.17 AM IST
War, not politics: Troubled election deepens tension in Myanmar's RakhineSuu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has claimed another commanding win in a parliamentary election on Sunday, the second since th...
12 Nov, 2020, 09.21 PM IST
Myanmar alleges 'one foreign country' arming insurgent groups on its territoryAccording to a news report published in Myanmar recently, Brig Gen Zaw Min Tun, the spokesperson for Tatmadaw (Myanmar military) has said t...
29 Jun, 2020, 09.03 PM IST
Myanmar spokesman rejects UN genocide report against RohingyasHis comments came a day after the UN report, which marked the first time the organisation has explicitly called for Myanmar officials to fa...
30 Aug, 2018, 08.12 AM IST
Exim Bank gets license to open representative office in MyanmarThe EXIM Bank of India said it has received a licence to open a representative office in Myanmar's Yangon.
19 Jun, 2013, 06.16 PM IST