Sources: NPR
Myanmar and Russia hold their first ever joint naval exercise in the Andaman Sea. 2023-11-7
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes Kachin State, Myanmar, with damage reported. 2023-05-31
During an online emergency meeting, the foreign ministers of the ASEAN agree to exclude Myanmar's military junta chief Min Aung Hlaing from the upcoming ASEAN Summit to be held later this month. The country will instead be represented by non-political representative at the summit. 2021-10-15
A court in Myanmar charges two Reuters journalists with obtaining secret state documents in violation of the colonial-era "Official Secrets Act", taking the landmark press freedom case to trial after a period of preliminary hearings that lasted six months. The two journalists were investigating mass graves in the village of Inn Din in northern Rakhine State prior to their arrest and imprisonment on 12 December 2017. 2018-07-9
The Obama administration lifts U.S. sanctions on Myanmar by terminating an emergency order that deemed the policies of the former military government a threat to U.S. national security. 2016-10-7
The Obama Administration weighs the option of using military force to protect the U.S.-backed rebels fighting the Assad regime. 2015-10-3
Myanmar launches air strikes against rebels in the Kokang area as dozens of soldiers have been killed and dozens more wounded in fightings in recent weeks. 2015-02-14
Eight people are killed when Buddhists and Muslims from Myanmar brawl in a detention center in Indonesia. 2013-04-5
Myanmar drug lord and convicted murderer Naw Kham is executed by lethal injection in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. 2013-03-1
The Obama Administration released a Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime 2011-07-25