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The Myanmar government declares a period of national mourning in Myanmar to last until April 6 as the death toll from the earthquake last week rises to over 3,050 people.
2025-03-31

Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is pardoned on five of her convictions, thereby reducing her prison sentence from 33 to 27 years.
2023-08-1

Acting President Myint Swe announces the National Defence and Security Council's extension of the country's state of emergency by six months, likely delaying the general election that was previously pledged to be held by August, saying that the country's situation has "not returned to normalcy yet".
2023-07-31

One person is killed and 60 others are injured in a prison riot in Pathein, Myanmar.
2023-01-7

Myanmar announces that it has executed four prisoners on charges of terrorism, including Zayar Thaw, a former lawmaker under ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and Kyaw Min Yu.
2022-07-25

The Swar Chaung dam bursts in Yedashe Township, Bago Region, Myanmar, flooding around a hundred villages and forcing roughly 50,000 people to flee their homes. One person is missing and the country's main highway is flooded.
2018-08-29

A military pilot is killed when his F-7 fighter jet crashes into a paddy field in Kyunkone, central Myanmar.
2018-04-3

The United Nations Human Rights Council releases a report detailing mass atrocities by the military and police forces against Myanmar's Rohingya minority, including gang-rapes, mass killings, and possible ethnic cleansing, which could amount to crimes against humanity.
2017-02-3

Burmese State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi asks U.S. businesses to invest in Myanmar after Barack Obama agrees to lift U.S. sanctions.
2016-09-15

A Thai national is arrested in Myanmar in relation to human trafficking offences after the Myanmar Navy rescues more than 200 people from a boat that he allegedly owns.
2015-05-30