Asia Myanmar Myanmar authorities recently arrested around 150 Rohingya suspected of trying to flee to Malaysia; Muslim minority faces restrictions on travel within Myanmar, with rights groups saying they live in apartheid conditions
Asia Myanmar The UN refugee agency has helped Myanmar junta officials travel to Bangladesh for repatriation talks with Rohingya refugees, while saying conditions in the country remain unsafe for their return
Asia Myanmar Nestlé has announced that it will close its factory at the Dagon Seikkan Industrial Zone and head office in Yangon, as it switches to a more “sustainable” business model, amid ongoing turmoil in the country
Asia Myanmar USAID will provide additional humanitarian aid to the population with USD 50 million; in 2023, more than 17 million people, almost one in three, will need humanitarian assistance, compared to less than one million in 2020
Asia Myanmar Myanmar's junta has extended the country's state of emergency for another six months, the acting president said as citizens marked the anniversary of the 2021 military coup with a 'silent protest'
Asia Myanmar The number of Rohingya refugees embarking on dangerous sea journeys in the hope of reaching Malaysia or Indonesia has increased by 360%, the UN announced after hundreds of refugees were stranded late last year
Asia Myanmar The Myanmar Economic Bank branch in Khin Oo Township was attacked by a drone and a homemade bomb exploded in Butalin Township, according to the Myanmar Police Force
Asia Myanmar Green Power Energy has successfully commissioned the Taung Daw Gwin solar project in Myit Thar, Myanmar, its subsidiary Gold Energy having won the tender to develop the 20 MW plant
Asia Myanmar Myanmar's military government said it will provide more than $200 million through the foreign currency market to alleviate the soaring prices of essential goods caused by high fuel prices
Asia Myanmar The governments of Myanmar and Japan have signed a memorandum of understanding and loan agreements to obtain an ODA loan of about $1,1 billion for the implementation of development projects, including the Yangon Urban Development
Asia Myanmar Seventy Rohingya hiding in a truck carrying ginger were arrested north of Yangon after the vehicle crashed into a road channel, the Myanmar junta said
Asia Myanmar Japanese journalist Toru Kubota, who spent three and a half months in prison after being arrested near an anti-government demonstration, called on Tokyo to put more pressure on the junta and take in refugees fleeing the country