News

The Manila Times on MSN19hOpinion
A test of Myanmar junta’s sincerity
THE military government of Myanmar has announced it was ending the state of emergency that justified its takeover from ...
While a year ago, it appeared that Myanmar’s civil war, pitting the junta and its armed forces against a wide range of anti-government forces around the country, was going to end ultimately with ...
By bno - Ho Chi Minh Office Myanmar’s ongoing post-earthquake recovery has unfolded largely ignored by the outside world and amid a relentless civil war, severely complicating relief and ...
The rebels now hold about 15,000 prisoners of war, according to People’s Goal, a nonprofit that assists defectors from the army and is tracking junta soldiers captured by the rebels.
More recently, more than 3.5 million people in Myanmar, out of a population of about 55 million, have been uprooted from their homes because of the civil war.
Estimates vary widely, but along the Thai-Myanmar border, NGOs say that as many as 500,000 people – made up largely of families – have settled in, safely tucked away from Myanmar’s four-year ...
Four million people from Myanmar are in the neighbouring country, half without proper documentation. Human Rights Watch reports that since the 2021 coup that plunged Myanmar into civil war, Thailand&r ...
Some say the travel ban has a heightened impact on people from war-torn countries like Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, who had hopes of finding sanctuary in the U.S. Matt Hunt / Anadolu Agency ...
ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 18, 2025 / 15:30 pm The Vatican news agency Fides reported that nine people were sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of a 44-year-old priest in Myanmar, a crime ...
Bishop Raymond Sumlut Gam of Banmaw, 72, has been a "displaced" bishop for more than six months since he fled his cathedral and town following attacks by Myanmar's military junta. “I have not been ...