Myanmar

The list criticises companies with links to Myanmar’s military. Photo: EPA

Chinese companies top ‘dirty list’ of complicit firms in Myanmar

China supplies the Myanmese military with fighter jets, armed drones, ballistic missile systems, heavy machinery, warships and energy, according to the list

14 Dec 2018 - 12:16pm 3

Reuters journalists Wa Lone (centre front) and Kyaw Soe Oo (centre back) as they leave the court after their first trial in Yangon. Photo: EPA

For reporters jailed in Myanmar, Time cover marks grim milestone

12 Dec 2018 - 9:38pm

Tens of thousands of young Cambodian, Vietnamese, Laos and Myanmar women marry Chinese men each year. Photo: AFP

Chinese bachelors plug gender gap by buying Southeast Asian brides

12 Dec 2018 - 8:56am 7

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Photo: Reuters

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey panned for ‘tone-deaf’ Myanmar trip

10 Dec 2018 - 3:10pm 2

A file photo of armed rebels belonging to the Kachin Independence Army. Photo: AFP

Myanmar court jails 3 anti-war protesters for defaming military

7 Dec 2018 - 9:52pm

A Kachin refugee with her grandchild at a refugee camp in northern Myanmar. Photo: AP

In China, thousands of Myanmar women are forced into childbirth

11 Dec 2018 - 7:38pm 8

Myanmar navy personnel escort Rohingya Muslims back to their camp in Sittwe, Rakhine state. Photo: AFP

Rohingya fleeing Myanmar anew after monsoon season ends

5 Dec 2018 - 1:18pm 2

Workers grading beans at a coffee factory in Pyin Oo Lwin district in Myanmar. Photo: Alamy

Out with opium, in with coffee as Myanmar targets speciality market

4 Dec 2018 - 12:50pm

Thailand exports billions of dollars of farm products to western markets each year. Photo: AFP

Fowl play? Thai poultry farm persists with defamation lawsuits

28 Nov 2018 - 7:07pm

Thai police inspect seized drugs during a press conference in Bangkok. Photo: AFP

Thai police blame Taiwanese meth cooks for Mekong drug glut

23 Nov 2018 - 6:44pm 1

Illegal scavengers are often tolerated by Myanmar’s big jade mining companies once the machines fall silent. Photo: Reuters

Jade scavenger shot dead by mine security guard in Myanmar

20 Nov 2018 - 5:04pm

Ten Rohingya Muslim men and boys kneeling in a field in a Rakhine village last year. They were later found dead in a mass grave. Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been sentenced to seven years in jail, after investigating the killing. Photo: Reuters

Why Myanmar must pardon two wrongly jailed reporters

20 Nov 2018 - 12:33am 2

Rohingya refugees shout slogans during a protest against a disputed repatriation programme at a refugee camp near Teknaf, Bangladesh. Photo: EPA

Bangladesh to try repatriate Rohingya in new year after mass protests

19 Nov 2018 - 8:22pm

Bangladesh scraps plans to repatriate Rohingya after hundreds hold protest refusing to return

Bangladesh scraps plans to repatriate Rohingya following mass protests

16 Nov 2018 - 3:33am 3

Myanmar’s controversial Rohingya repatriation set to begin against backdrop of investment from China and India

Rohingya repatriation set to begin as China and India invest in Myanmar

14 Nov 2018 - 10:12am 2

Myanmar’s single mothers struggle against stigma in a country where women are often shamed for unwanted pregnancies

Stigma or separation: The painful choice facing Myanmar's single mothers

14 Nov 2018 - 3:27pm

Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: AP

Amnesty strips Suu Kyi of highest honour over Rohingya atrocities

13 Nov 2018 - 10:31pm 12

More than half a million Rohingya children live in congested refugee camps in Bangladesh. Photo: AP

UN agency warns against repatriation of Rohingya refugees

13 Nov 2018 - 3:16am 1

Myanmar journalists Kyaw Zaw Lin, Nayi Min and Phyo Wai Win leave court after an earlier hearing in Yangon. Photo: AFP

Case dropped against Myanmar journalists facing incitement charges

9 Nov 2018 - 8:30pm

Myanmar Commerce Minister Dr Than Myint, right, shakes hands with Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Hong Liang after the Signing Ceremony of the Framework Agreement Kyauk Phyu Special Economic Zone Deep Sea Port. Photo: AP

Myanmar signs smaller Chinese port deal amid ‘debt trap’ fears

9 Nov 2018 - 11:06pm 7

Members of the Bangladeshi coastguard with the Rohingya refugees and alleged traffickers. Photo: AFP

Bangladesh rescues 33 'Malaysia-bound' Rohingya from the sea

8 Nov 2018 - 8:39pm

Methamphetamine pills called yaba (madness medicine) have become Southeast Asia’s most popular drug. Photo: Handout

Can Myanmar meeting stop meth ‘flooding’ into Asia-Pacific?

7 Nov 2018 - 10:54pm 2

Rohingya Muslim children at Taiy Khali refugee camp in Bangladesh. Photo: AP

Facebook concedes it failed to act on violent incitement in Myanmar

6 Nov 2018 - 10:26pm

Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. Photo: EPA

Reuters reporters appeal in Myanmar state secrets case

5 Nov 2018 - 1:28pm

Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: EPA

Myanmar by-election results deliver setbacks for Suu Kyi’s party

4 Nov 2018 - 10:58pm 2

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party faces a key election test. Photo: EPA

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi faces rare by-election test

3 Nov 2018 - 9:46pm 1

Chinese businessman Lim Chin Tsong built the Chin Tsong Palace in what was then Rangoon as a monument to his extravagant lifestyle. Photo: Alamy

The three tycoons: Chinese merchants in Burma, and its ‘Golden Age’

2 Nov 2018 - 8:54am 1

A street procession in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: EPA

Can mobile banking overcome Myanmar’s trust issues?

6 Nov 2018 - 10:28am

A woman sells her hair at Insein hair market in Yangon. Photo: Reuters

Business is booming for Myanmar’s trade in human hair

1 Nov 2018 - 9:22pm

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