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Representatives from Myanmar's ruling military junta hold talks with three rebel groups, facilitated by China, amid an ongoing rebel offensive.
2023-12-11

The death toll from Cyclone Mocha's landfall in Myanmar increases to 463 people.
2023-05-19

Early results show Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy winning an absolute majority in the country's latest general election. The election is called unfair by the oppositional Union Solidarity and Development Party and is criticised by rights groups for alleged voter suppression and the political disenfranchisement of the Rohingya minority.
2020-11-13

A landslide at a jade mine in Kachin State, Myanmar, kills at least 15 people and injures 45 others.
2018-07-14

The government of Myanmar announces that it has reached a repatriation agreement with the United Nations regarding Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, saying it will assure that refugees "can return voluntarily in safety and dignity." Members of the UNHCR and the UNDP will be allowed to work in Rakhine State to monitor the process.
2018-06-1

Two Reuters journalists are arrested in Myanmar for trying to illegally obtain official documents. They were reporting about the Rohingya Muslim community in Rakhine State.
2017-12-13

The Holy See and Myanmar establish full diplomatic relations following a meeting between Pope Francis and Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
2017-05-4

The death toll in a landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar rises to about 100 people, with up to 200 others missing. Most of the victims were villagers digging for jade in a mountain of displaced earth.
2015-11-22

William Hague, the United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, commences a two day tour of Myanmar.
2012-01-5

ASEAN formally invites Russia and the United States to attend the East Asia Summit and urges Myanmar to hold free and fair elections in a foreign ministers meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.
2010-07-20