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Myanmar's security forces open fire on a funeral being held for a person killed in Yangon, with no casualties reported. The Kachin Independence Army also attacks a police station, prompting the military to conduct airstrikes.
2021-03-28

90 townships in 30 cities, including Naypyidaw and all 44 townships in Yangon, are placed under curfew from 8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. local time and all gatherings of more than five people are banned.
2021-02-9

Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar are sentenced to seven years in prison for violating the Official Secrets Act, prompting international condemnation. The pair was investigating reports of mass graves at the village of Inn Din when they were arrested in Yangon for attempting to obtain classified documents, which they contend were used as bait to entrap them.
2018-09-3

A few hundred pro-government protesters gather in Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon, condemning Rohingya militants as well as perceived foreign interference in the Rakhine conflict.
2017-09-18

A Myanmar court sentences four journalists and the editor of the Yangon based Unity journal to ten years hard labor for allegedly publishing state secrets in an investigative series of reports on a weapons factory.
2014-07-10

An Air Bagan plane carrying more than 60 passengers, including many foreigners, from the city of Yangon to Heho Airport in Shan State, Burma, makes an emergency landing, killing a passenger and a motorcyclist and injuring 11 others.
2012-12-25

The Government of Burma apologises to Buddhist monks injured in a protest outside a copper mine last month.
2012-12-8

Burmese protest leader U Gambira is released by authorities in Yangon after being held overnight.
2012-02-11

A senior United Nations official, Vijay Nambiar, meets with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon.
2010-11-27

Three explosions occur in the former Burmese capital of Yangon during the city's Water Festival, killing at least 9 people and injuring 178.
2010-04-15