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Thirty-eight protesters are shot dead and 30 more are wounded by the military and police as protests against the February 1 coup continue across the country. A meeting of ASEAN nations called for restraint of the security forces but failed to unanimously call for the release of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
2021-03-3

A nationwide general strike takes place in Myanmar in response to the military coup with thousands marching in the capital Naypyidaw, where they clashed with riot police. Several injuries have been reported.
2021-02-8

A group of 65 Rohingya Muslims are left stranded on Rawi Island in southern Thailand after their boat shipwrecked during a journey to flee genocide in their native Rakhine State in Myanmar.
2019-06-11

A mudslide at a jade mine in Hpakant, Kachin State, northern Myanmar caused by the collapse of a nearby lake kills three miners and leaves 51 missing.
2019-04-23

Forty-one inmates escape from Hpa-an Township's main prison in Kayin State, Myanmar, after hijacking a garbage truck and driving it through the prison gates. Eleven of the escapees are apprehended by police, but 30 remain at large.
2018-09-16

U Gambira, a former Burmese monk and one of the most visible leaders during Myanmar's 2007 Saffron Revolution, is released from prison after having the charges against him dropped.
2016-07-1

United States President Barack Obama vows to keep United States borders open to refugees, "as long as I'm president," as he visited a Malaysian humanitarian center and met migrant children, many of whom escaped violence in homelands that include Myanmar, Pakistan, and Syria.
2015-11-21

Myanmar's Thein Sein and the Philippines' Benigno Aquino III ink trade agreements including those that involve renewable energy, mass media, and visa-free travel.
2013-12-5

The European Union suspends most trade sanctions against Myanmar for a year but leaves an arms embargo in place.
2012-04-23

Nine, mostly children, die, after an overloaded river ferry capsizes in the Irrawaddy River delta, in Myanmar.
2010-10-7