Tag Archives: Yangon

Myanmar security forces in a car rammed into an anti-coup protest on Sunday morning in Yangon, with at least half a dozen protesters arrested and dozens injured, according to two witnesses at the scene.

Model-actor Paing Takhon has languished behind bars in a notorious Yangon prison because his trial on defamation charges has been delayed months, his lawyer told reporters today Due to the proliferation of COVID-19 at at Insein Prison

A bomb exploded this morning at Yangon’s Kyauktada Township Police Station, where a vice general police officer is stationed, amid mounting casualties as violence escalates. As of early Tuesday afternoon it was unknown if anyone was hurt in the attack …

The son of one of Myanmar’s most legendary musicians was arrested earlier this month in connection with recent bombings, the junta announced yesterday Weeks after Win Htut Thawdar, whose father is hard rock icon Zaw Win Htut,

A Burmese actress last night won an award at an international film festival in Germany despite the fact that she – and almost everyone else who worked on the Myanmar film which premiered there – is in military custody or on the run

Myanmar anti-junta dissidents have carried out a bomb attack on security forces near Yangon, with several killed in an ensuing firefight, the military and media said.

A bomb exploded at the Ocean Supercenter in Yangon’s 9 Mile area this morning, the latest in a string of attacks in the city that opposition forces say they have carried out since the government in exile declared war on the

Two soldiers were killed in an attack on their military vehicle yesterday in Yangon amid a rising tide of violence Attackers tossed two grenades into the bed of a truck loaded with soldiers and then opened fire,

A pregnant Karen woman and her quarantined migrant laborer husband have found themselves suddenly wealthy after big Thai lottery wins this week, the head of an aid agency said today The Burmese couple,

A German wholesaler will follow other foreign firms to quit Myanmar when it ends operations in October Metro, a wholesale supplier supplying the nation from its Yangon headquarters since 2019, announced Thursday that it would pull out,