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State Counsellor discusses COVID-19 measures of Bago Region through video conferencing. (Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office)
April 7, 2020
Oak Hmu Zaw — State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said in a Facebook post posted on April 5 that 6.3 million masks would be distributed for people in...
April 7, 2020
Burma News International (BNI) issued a letter on the 2 April 2020 regarding recent charges against media organisations using the anti-terrorism law...
People have their temperatures checked amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus at the immigration post in Myawaddy near the Thai border on March 23, 2020, as thousands of people crossed from Thailand as the border crossings were due to close because of the growing pandemic. Photo: AFP
April 6, 2020
A migrant support network has voiced concern over Myanmar and other regional migrants in Southeast Asia who are negatively affected by government...
Voice of Myanmar (VOM) editor-in-chief Nay Myo Lin (C) sits in a vehicle as he is escorted from his home by the police to court in Mandalay on March 31, 2020. Photo: Zaw Zaw/AFP
April 6, 2020
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Myanmar authorities to immediately drop all charges against an editor for broadcasting an interview with...
Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
April 6, 2020
Naung Naung — State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said that keeping returnees from foreign countries at COVID-19 quarantine centres for 14 days was not...
Myanmar nationals wearing facemasks amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus walk at the immigration post in Myawaddy near the Thai border on March 23, 2020, as thousands of people crossed from Thailand as the border crossings were due to close because of the growing pandemic. Photo: AFP
April 4, 2020
Thant Myint-U — Myanmar, like the entire world, is facing not only an unprecedented health crisis, but an unprecedented economic crisis as well...
April 2, 2020
Chit Min Tun — In her Facebook post, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said that she used Facebook for quick and effective contact with people in...
April 2, 2020
The Ambassadors of Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, the European Union, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,...
Caption : Internally displaced Kachin ethnic people sit inside a temporary refugee camp at Tan Phae village Roman Catholic church in Myitkyina, Kachin State, northern Myanmar. Photo: Seng Mai/EPA
April 1, 2020
The Myanmar government should take urgent steps to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission among the estimated 350,000 people displaced by conflict...
People wear masks at the arrival lounge at the Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
March 31, 2020
Myanmar's Yangon International Airport has announced that all international commercial passenger flights will not be allowed in all Myanmar airports...
March 29, 2020
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has expressed concern over reports of mounting civilian casualties and growing displacement triggered by the latest...
Arakan Army. Photo: AA
March 28, 2020
The Arakan Army (AA) which is fighting the national army in Rakhine and Kachin states has “very little chance” to join the country’s peace process...