Sources: NPR
Floods in northern Myanmar trap thousands of people in their homes and cause power outages and disruptions to telephone services. 2024-07-2
Eight people are killed by a bombing in a village in Chin State, Myanmar. 2023-03-30
Aung San Suu Kyi, the ousted leader of Myanmar, is sentenced to a further three years' imprisonment for "violating the state's secrets act". She is already serving 20 years on other charges. 2022-09-29
The United States House of Representatives votes 398–14 on a resolution to condemn the military coup in Myanmar. 2021-03-19
Twenty-six bodies of women and children are recovered after three boats carrying ethnic Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar sink in the Naf River in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar District. 2017-08-31
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 claims that Russia was responsible for the bombing of a United Nations aid convoy near Aleppo on September 19. Russia denies its involvement. In the aftermath of the attack, the United Nations suspends all aid convoys in Syria. 2016-09-21
The Obama Administration announces the creation of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, a new United States federal government agency that will be a fusion center between existing agencies and the private sector for real-time use against cyber attacks. 2015-02-10
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
The Pyu ancient cities are added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list, the first such site in Myanmar. 2014-06-22