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Myanmar junta stages election after five years of civil war
AFP, Published on 28/12/2025
» YANGON (MYANMAR) - A trickle of voters made their way to Myanmar's heavily restricted polls on Sunday, with the ruling junta touting the exercise as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last elected government, triggering civil war.
Aftershocks rattle Myanmar as rescuers search for survivors
AFP, Published on 31/03/2025
» MANDALAY (MYANMAR) - Rescuers braved aftershocks to scour the devastated city of Mandalay for survivors on Monday, after a massive earthquake killed at least 1,700 people in Myanmar and at least 18 in neighbouring Thailand.
Opium farming takes root in Myanmar's war-wracked landscape
AFP, Published on 10/03/2025
» PEKON, Myanmar - Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict.
Drones playing bigger role in Myanmar conflict
AFP, Published on 09/01/2025
» MOE BYE, Myanmar - A Myanmar military drone tracked a car carrying anti-junta forces as it drove through the contested village of Moe Bye. Moments after it parked near a house, the operator dropped an explosive.
‘I’m a Mandalay girl’: Teen soldier on Myanmar front lines
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» SHAN STATE, Myanmar - An 18-year-old recruit in one of Myanmar's pro-democracy fighting units prepares to launch a drone strike on junta troops, driven by anger and her mother’s call for revolution.
UK police question ousted Myanmar ambassador over residence row: lawyer
AFP, Published on 19/08/2023
» LONDON - British police have questioned Myanmar's ex-ambassador to London, stripped of his post by the military junta after a 2021 coup, over his refusal to leave a diplomatic residence, his lawyer said Saturday.
Category 5 Cyclone Mocha set to crash over Myanmar, Bangladesh
AFP, Published on 14/05/2023
» KYAUKTAW, Myanmar: Cyclone Mocha intensified into a category five hurricane on Sunday, hours ahead of its predicted landfall in Myanmar and Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from the coasts were taking shelter.
Myanmar sentences 7 students to death, says UN
AFP, Published on 03/12/2022
» The Myanmar junta handed out at least seven more death sentences this week, taking the tally of those on death row to 139, according to the United Nations (UN).
Executed Myanmar prisoners deserved 'many death sentences': junta spokesman
AFP, Published on 26/07/2022
» YANGON: Myanmar's junta lashed out Tuesday against international condemnation of the country's first use of capital punishment in decades, saying the four executed prisoners -- two of them prominent democracy fighters -- "deserved many death sentences."
Myanmar junta executes 4 prisoners, including 2 pro-democracy rivals
AFP, Published on 25/07/2022
» YANGON: Myanmar's junta has executed four prisoners including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent activist, state media said Monday, in the country's first use of capital punishment in decades.