6 journalists have been released by the country's authorities as part of a planned amnesty for 2.000 prisoners

The collapse of public health infrastructure has left communities to address widespread trauma independently; Kawthoolei Care Hospital in Kayin is training community health workers to provide mental health support amid ongoing conflict and displacement

Over 100 Rohingya refugees were rescued off Indonesia’s Aceh province, located in the northernmost part of the country; stranded at sea for weeks, their plight spotlights the urgent need for regional cooperation on this crisis

The country is facing lingering impacts of Typhoon Yagi: damaged farmland hinders crop cycles and sparks fears of a rice shortage, rising prices and limited government aid heighten food insecurity concerns; urgent recovery efforts are needed