Myanmar

In this image provided by the Military True News Information Team, supporters of the military government hold nationalistic banners and portraits of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, chairman of the State Administration Council.
Global Politics
Myanmar revolutionaries seek $1 billion frozen by the US
Rohingya refugees gather near a fence during a government organized media tour, to a no-man's land between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Taungpyolatyar village, Maung Daw, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar
Justice
Myanmar seeks to have Rohingya case thrown out of UN court
Migrants make their way to the checkpoint "Kuznitsa" at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus
Top of The World
EU places new sanctions on entities facilitating migration to Belarus
The logo for ExxonMobil appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
Top of The World
Top US oil executives to testify before Congress
People wait outside a shop where face masks and vitamins are being given away in Mandalay, Myanmar
Food
6.2 million Burmese could go hungry by October. It’s the worst situation in ‘living memory,’ UN official says.
"A Queen's Dream," illustration by Mayyu Khan, a Rohingya artist living in Kutupalong Refugee Camp, from "Rohingya Folk Tales," by Mohammed Rezuwan.
Refugees
This young folklorist is on a mission to preserve Rohingya stories before it’s too late
A man holds a picture of 19-year-old Kyal Sin, also known as Angel, during her burial in Mandalay, Myanmar
Conflict
Souring on peace marches, Myanmar protesters seek weapons
An anti-coup protester looks at the images of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 26, 2021.
Politics
Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer sees little chance for a fair trial
Anti-coup protesters walk through a market with images of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi at Kamayut township in Yangon, Myanmar, April 8, 2021. They walked through the markets and streets of Kamayut township with slogans to show their disaffection
Conflict & Justice
‘Our unity is our hope,’ exiled Myanmar envoy says
Anti-coup demonstrators gather tires to burn as they prepare to confront police during a protest in Tarmwe township, Yangon, Myanmar, April 1, 2021. 
Conflict
Myanmar’s army is turning guns on medics
People walk along a deserted road blocked with improvised barricades build by anti-coup protesters to secure a neighborhood in Yangon, Myanmar, March 18, 2021.
Inside Myanmar, calls for UN intervention grow louder
Demonstrators gather
Conflict & Justice
In Myanmar’s uprising, some fight for more than just ‘democracy’
Myanmar nationals living in Thailand hold pictures of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar military Commander in Chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing during a protest in front of the United Nations building in Bangkok, Feb. 3, 2021. 
Military
Relent or resist the coup? Myanmar’s citizens plot their next move. 
A man cast his ballot during the early voting ahead of the Nov. 8 general election, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread in Yangon, Myanmar, Oct. 30, 2020.
Elections
Myanmar prepares for a remarkable but messy election 
clinic
Health & Medicine
With less foreign aid, Thai clinic struggles to serve migrants and refugees from Myanmar
A man looks at a screen showing the face of another man projected on a wall
Conflict
In Myanmar, underground poetry nights build bridges between Rohingya and Burmese writers
Three young men sit closely together and look at a cell phone
Refugees
Fast friends, Rohingya refugees in exile rebuild their lives in Malaysia
Rohingya refugees stand in a makeshift refugee camp made mostly of tents.
Conflict & Justice
A new report on the Rohingya crisis reveals systemic problems within the UN
A man sits down with flags in the background
Foreign policy
Bill Richardson says Aung San Suu Kyi ‘doesn’t deserve credit’ for releasing two jailed journalists
Portrait of a Myanmar poet wearing a blue shirt.
Arts, Culture & Media
A spoken word poet in Myanmar speaks out against hate and injustice
Two detained journalists in handcuffs give two thumbs up and fists raised.
Justice
Lawyers of jailed reporters in Myanmar appeal case, citing police setup
Aung San Suu Kyi  on a stage dressed in white
In symbolic move, Canada votes to strip Suu Kyi of citizenship
Thet Thet Wai
This woman bodybuilder in Myanmar is using Facebook to advocate for harsher penalties for rape
Rohingya refugee children fly improvised kites at the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Conflict
One doctor’s experience on a ‘medical mission’ to treat Rohingya refugees
a young Rohingya boy
Conflict
‘A soldier cut off her breast:’ Rohingya survivors recount atrocities
Seven Dead After Prison Riots in South Carolina
Full Episode
Dozens of cardboard cutouts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are seen during an Avaaz.org protest outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2018.
Conflict
Activists in Myanmar welcome Zuckerberg’s pledge to clamp down on hate speech. But is it enough?
rohingya
Conflict
Grieving Rohingya survivors tell of massacre, escape and those left behind
A girl from the Pauktaw township stands in front of her family's shelter in a Rohingya internally displaced persons camp
Conflict
The Rohingya crisis lead to a falling out between Bill Richardson and Aung San Suu Kyi
Rohingya refugees walk at Jamtoli camp in the morning in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Jan. 22, 2018.
Conflict
I visited the Rohingya refugee camps and here is what Bangladesh is doing right
Rohingya refugees Saddam Hussein, 23, and his wife Shofika Begum, 18, pose in their temporary shelter at the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Culture
A wedding provides an occasion for hope in a Rohingya refugee camp
Thai tourists from Bangkok take a photo with one of the women at Huai Sua Tao.
Culture
Thailand’s ‘long neck villages’ aren’t just controversial tourist attractions — they’re homes and workplaces for refugees
Pope Francis is welcomed as he arrives at Yangon International Airport, Myanmar November 27, 2017.
Conflict
The pope may not use the term ‘Rohingya’ during his trip to Myanmar. Here’s why.
Mohammed Shoaib, 7, who was shot on his chest before crossing the border from Myanmar in August, shows his injury
Conflict
Bangladesh and Myanmar sign deal to start repatriating Rohingya refugees
A Rohingya refugee helps children cross the mud after crossing the Naf River at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
Conflict
In Myanmar, fake news spread on Facebook stokes ethnic violence
A group of people heading to a demonstration are going up a stairway in downtown Chicago.
Conflict
Rohingya in Chicago make an emotional plea to the US: ‘Help our people’
People in a Yangon try out the "soundsuit," an art installation that's designed to draw attention to noise. "Maybe once people hear what they sound like," says one of the creators, "they'll reduce the noise."
Arts
In Myanmar, an artist wades into the sensitive business of noise
Inani Beach, an 11-mile beach on the Bay of Bengal, makes up part of Cox's Bazar 75-mile sea beach — one of the longest beaches in the world.
Business
You’re welcome to visit the longest beach in the world — unless you’re a refugee
Burmese refugees Thailand
Conflict
The biggest group of current refugees in the US? Christians from Myanmar.
Environment
Myanmar’s Inle Lake is just one small body of water, but this man is dedicating his life to saving it
IDP Camp in Sittwe
Culture
In Myanmar, refugees from Muslim-Buddhist conflict remain in limbo
In Buddhist Myanmar, there's a view that abortion is wrong because "human life happens only in a blue moon, so we shouldn't waste a life like this."
Health
Providing safe illegal abortions in Myanmar is a ‘karmic balance,’ says one doctor
Supporters of Myanmar's pro-democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi gather outside National League for Democracy headquarters (NLD) in Yangon, Myanmar, November 9, 2015.
Global Politics
‘We voted and we feel good.’ Joy in Myanmar at democracy, at last.
Demonstrators listen as a student leader gives a speech during a protest led by students at Yangon University in Myanmar July 7, 2015
Justice
Meet the Burmese activists who risked their lives for the right to carry a USB drive
Some of the lucky ones: A group of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants admitted into Indonesia in May 2015. Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia are now pushing away boats holding thousands of migrants.
Conflict
Another migrant crisis is brewing in the Bay of Bengal
Tin of opium
Conflict
Myanmar’s opium fields grow even as its government calls for complete eradication
Myra Dahgaypaw
Justice
Myra Dahgaypaw, an ethnic minority in Myanmar, vows not to let her people disappear
Thae Chaung IDP camp
Conflict
Human traffickers find easy prey among Myanmar’s minorities
President Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi
Burma at the Crossroads
Full Episode
Zin Mar Aung of Myanmar (center) receives congratulations from First Lady Michelle Obama and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she receives a State Department 2012 International Women of Courage Award.
Justice
Myanmar’s military regime says it’s making way for democracy, but this activist says freedom is a long way off
A police officer stands in front of Traders Hotel, where an explosion occurred, in central Yangon early October 15, 2013.
Conflict & Justice
This journalist found herself caring for two small children after a bomb rocked a Myanmar hotel