UNDP says without urgent action, 95 percent of the population will regress into survival mode.Myanmar‘s war-ravaged Rakhine state could face imminent famine according to a…
Earlier this year, artillery fire crashed through U Khup Thang’s home in Paletwa, in western Myanmar’s Chin State, killing his son. “It felt like a…
A United Kingdom-based rights group has called for global action over what it called an “intensifying genocide” against Myanmar’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority as fighting…
Since war resumed in his native Rakhine State last November, Thura Maung has seen his options narrow. The 18-year-old, from the state’s ethnic Rakhine majority,…
Rohingya activists fear civilians could be targeted and thousands forced to leave their homes after a rebel group announced plans to attack Maungdaw, a town…
Fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) has escalated in the western state of Rakhine in recent days, putting thousands of mostly…
I was born in 1986 in a village in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State marked by green farms and cows ploughing the fields. It was before…
Communications problems are making it difficult to assess the extent of the damage caused by the massive storm. Rescue and relief efforts are under way…