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Fifteen suspected drug smugglers are killed and about 2 million methamphetamine tablets are seized during a shootout with soldiers at Thailand's border with Myanmar.
2023-12-16

China calls for an "immediate ceasefire" in Myanmar after rebels capture several towns near the Chinese border.
2023-11-2

At least 25 miners are killed and 14 others missing after a landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant, Myanmar.
2023-08-14

Two years after Myanmar's military overthrew the country's democratically-elected government, the State Administration Council extends the country's state of emergency for another six months, thereby postponing the general election initially scheduled for August 1.
2023-02-1

Deposed leader of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi is sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of election fraud. She will now serve an overall sentence of 20 years in prison for different charges.
2022-09-2

On the six-month anniversary of the coup, military junta leader Min Aung Hlaing names himself Prime Minister "in order to perform the country’s duties fast, easily and effectively", according to the ruling State Administration Council.
2021-08-1

Following recommendations from the Council on Ethics, the Government Pension Fund of Norway drops two firms from its portfolio for doing business with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The Norges Bank Investment Management also blacklists a company for owning factories in Myanmar.
2021-05-20

Myanmar approves the use of the Sputnik V vaccine developed by Russia.
2021-02-6

The United Nations calls for action to end renewed hostilities between ethnic Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar's western Rakhine State that have killed dozens and displaced more than 22,500.
2012-10-28

Buddhist vigilantes attack a bus in western Myanmar, killing nine Muslim passengers.
2012-06-4