Russia to help select and train first Myanmar cosmonaut

MOSCOW, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday it will help select and train Myanmar's first cosmonaut in a sign of ...

Retired Myanmar general set for powerful role in new parliament, sources say

Feb 25 (Reuters) - A retired general from an army-backed party that swept Myanmar's election is set to take the powerful role ...

Myanmar military airstrikes on trading site kills more than two dozen

A resistance group and independent online media in Myanmar say airstrikes by the military on a trading junction in the central Magway region killed more than two dozen people and wounded 20 others.
Al Jazeera English

China carries out further executions of Myanmar scam centre suspects

The executions are part of broader crackdown by Beijing on centres across Southeast Asia, which are built on an industrial scale and hunt scam victims across the globe, as well as running kidnapping, ...
Sky

Yvette Cooper warns of 'deepening crisis' in Myanmar, five years on from military coup

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said the people of Myanmar "face a deepening crisis", five years after the country's democratically-elected government was overthrown by the military. The coup, ...
NHK

Myanmar residents of Japan rally in Tokyo five years after coup

Hundreds of Myanmar residents of Japan held a rally in Tokyo on Sunday, exactly five years after Myanmar's military seized power in a coup. On February 1, 2021, Myanmar's military detained ...
The Diplomat

Military Proxy Party Declared Lopsided Victor in ‘Sham’ Myanmar Election

The Myanmar military’s proxy party has been declared the overwhelming winner of the country’s recent election, ensuring that it will form the country’s next government and tighten the army’s hold on ...
dw

China: Four more people executed in Myanmar scam crackdown

Beijing has continued to clamp down on Myanmar-based telecom scams with another set of executions. The fraud operations reportedly involve cryptocurrency investments and also have links to drug ...
The Conversation

With international law at a ‘breaking point’, a tiny country goes after Myanmar’s junta on its own

Associate Professor Emma Palmer is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Australian Discovery Early Career Award (project number DE250100597) funded by the Australian Government. The views ...
The Independent

After five years of mass killing, it is time for a radical rethink on Burma

Burma, or Myanmar as the dictatorship prefers to call it, has passed a grim milestone: the fifth anniversary of the coup in which Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing seized power, triggering the most ...
The Independent

Yvette Cooper warns of ‘dire’ crisis in Myanmar, five years on from coup

Five years on from the military coup in Myanmar, the country faces a “dire” situation and a “deepening crisis”, the foreign secretary has warned. Yvette Cooper reiterated the UK’s commitment to ...