United Nations:UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday criticized Myanmar's army chief after he declared that the Muslim Rohingya had nothing in common with the country's other ethnic groups. Guterres said he was "shocked" at reports of General U Min Aung Hlaing's remarks at a military ...

In Myanmar, hundreds of people have marched through Yangon to oppose changes to a protest law limiting free speech. Nearly 190 Myanmar civil society groups have signed a petition against the amendment. Amendments to the 2011 Law will bring three-year prison terms for supporting a demonstration that ...

DHAKA:Three Nobel Peace laureates have accused Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the nation's military of genocide for their role in violence that has forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh. The laureates, who are in Bangladesh to visit sprawling refugee camps, ...

Naypyidaw:Two armed ethnic groups signed a ceasefire in Myanmar on Tuesday in a move which the government hopes will revive a flagging peace process. The New Mon State Party (NMSP) and Lahu Democratic Union (LDU) inked the National Ceasefire Agreement in the capital Naypyidaw, joining eight ...

In Myanmar, British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson met with Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyidaw today(Sunday)  to press for action on the Rohingya crisis.            The meeting followed his visit to a refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, where nearly ...

YANGON: A petrol bomb was thrown at the lakeside Yangon compound of Myanmar´s leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday while she was away from her home, a government spokesman said. "It was a petrol bomb," spokesman Zaw Htay confirmed to AFP, without giving further details on a possible motive for a ...

TOKYO: Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono conveyed serious concern over Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims to the country’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, in a meeting on Friday in the capital Naypyidaw, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported. Separately, the Japanese government announced ...

WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday called the Myanmar military operation against the Rohingya population “ethnic cleansing” and threatened targeted sanctions against those responsible for what it called “horrendous atrocities.”“The situation in northern Rakhine state constitutes ...

China's foreign minister said Sunday that the international community must help fight poverty and promote development in Myanmar's Rakhine state, which has seen hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee amid a military crackdown.Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the comments after meeting in ...

YANGON: The EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Monday hailed “extremely encouraging” talks with Aung San Suu Kyi on the Rohingya crisis, welcoming steps towards the repatriation of Muslims driven from Myanmar into Bangladesh.But her optimistic tone appeared sharply at odds with ...