Myanmar

The United States has ordered its non-essential embassy staff and their families to leave Myanmar after weeks of violence following the Feb,1 military coup. Daily protests demanding the restoration of the elected government have been met…

Myanmar security forces opened fire on protests against military rule on Wednesday killing nine people, witnesses and media reported, a day after neighbouring countries called for restraint and offered to help Myanmar resolve the crisis.…

Myanmar’s deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi has appeared in a court hearing via video link and was hit with additional charges, as anti-coup protesters rallied across the country again in defiance of a security force crackdown that killed at…

Malaysia has deported 1,086 Myanmar nationals, despite a court order temporarily halting the repatriation amid concerns that the group could be at risk if they are returned to military-ruled Myanmar. Kairul Dzaimee Daud, director-general…

Protesters in Myanmar kept up demands on Monday for the release of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and an end to military rule, undaunted by the junta’s deployment of armored vehicles in several parts of the country and more soldiers on the…

Thousands of mostly silent demonstrators paraded through central Tokyo on Sunday in protest against the coup in Myanmar, many carrying photos of detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi in what organisers said was the biggest march in Japan for…

The U.N human rights investigator for the Southeast Asian country on Friday called on the United Nations Security Council to consider imposing punitive sanctions, arms embargoes and travel bans on Myanmar because of the military coup there.…

People returned to the streets of Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital, and Yangon, the country’s biggest city on Wednesday, after police used rubber bullets and water cannon to break up protests leaving two people in hospital. Several civil…

Police in Myanmar capital, Naypyidaw fired brief bursts of a water cannon against tens of thousands of protesters who gathered for the third day on Monday for a nationwide demonstration against the military’s removal of elected leader Aung…

Tens of thousands of people rallied across Myanmar on Sunday to denounce last week’s coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in the biggest protests since the 2007 Saffron Revolution that helped lead to democratic…