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The latest news and comment on Myanmar

July 2024

  • Multicoloured striped pieces of cloth hang from the ceiling

    Thai artist gives voice to Myanmar’s Shan refugees at Venice and Bangkok biennales

    Themes of displacement and diaspora explored in collaborative textile project as part of The Spirits of Maritime Crossing exhibition in Venice and Bangkok

June 2024

  • A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river on the border with Myanmmar, in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

    On the Shadow Tracks by Clare Hammond review – a train to Myanmar’s dark heart

  • Tin Oo alongside Aung San Suu Kyi as she speaks to crowds in Yangon, Myanmar, in 1996

    Tin Oo, NLD founder with Aung San Suu Kyi, dies aged 97 in Myanmar

May 2024

  • Anna Allott

    Other lives
    Anna Allott obituary

  • A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river

    Who are the Rohingya and what is happening in Myanmar?

  • Men of various ages disembark a train

    Rights and freedom
    Rohingya being forcibly conscripted in battle between Myanmar and rebels

  • Thai dancers keep cool with cold drinks and a fan during the heatwaves in Thailand, where 30 people have died from heatstroke this year.

    ‘Inside an oven’: sweltering heat ravages crops and takes lives in south-east Asia

April 2024

  • A middle-aged woman holds up a report that says: 'The state of the world's human rights' with the Amnesty candle and barbed-wire logo behind her

    Rights and freedom
    UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally

  • Thai soldiers stand guard as Myanmar villagers flee to Thailand amid clashes between rebels and the junta

    Fighting rages at Myanmar’s border with Thailand as rebels target junta troops

  • Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi

    Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s jailed former leader, moved to house arrest, says junta

  • There were queues at the Myanmar border on Friday as people attempted to flee after the strategically vital town of Myawaddy fell to the anti-junta resistance

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    People flee to Thailand amid intense fighting in Myanmar – video

  • Myanmar: is the junta’s grip on power weakening and what next for its leadership?

  • Blow for Myanmar’s military as rebels say hundreds have surrendered at key border town

  • Julie Bishop ‘deeply honoured’ to be appointed UN special envoy for Myanmar

  • Myanmar opposition carries out drone attack on capital

  • ‘I can’t speak but my photos do’: how a mute Rohingya boy talks to the world

March 2024

  • Rohingya rescued at sea after boat capsized<br>epaselect epa11233062 Rohingya survivors stand on a capsized wooden boat as they wait for rescuers to evacuate them on to a National Search and Rescue boat in the waters off West Aceh, Indonesia, 21 March 2024. Indonesian rescuers had rescued at least 69 Rohingya, who had been discovered by fishermen on 20 March, standing on the hull of their capsized wooden boat in waters near the city of Meulaboh in West Aceh, according to Indonesian national rescue agency Basarnas. EPA/ZAINAL ABIDIN

    Dozens of Rohingya refugees rescued from overturned boat in Indian Ocean

  • Aung San Suu Kyi's now empty house is seen by Yangon's Inya lake, 2009

    Auction of Aung San Suu Kyi’s home in Myanmar attracts no bidders

  • The cover of the 8 March edition of the Guardian Weekly.

    Inside Guardian Weekly
    Far from Myanmar: inside the 8 March Guardian Weekly

  • Rohingya men, women and children walk ashore through the water from an overloaded boat

    Rights and freedom
    Death, abuse and torture: traffickers hold fleeing Rohingya to ransom for up to £3,000 a time

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