Sources: DNA India
At least ten people are killed by flooding and landslides caused by Typhoon Yagi in Thailand, along with at least 33 people killed in Myanmar. 2024-09-13
Floods in northern Myanmar trap thousands of people in their homes and cause power outages and disruptions to telephone services. 2024-07-2
The death toll from Cyclone Mocha's landfall in Myanmar increases to 463 people. 2023-05-19
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 imposes sanctions against several military officials in Myanmar for its suppression of the protests in response to the coup. 2021-03-22
Myanmar reports 424 new infections in the last 24 hours, the biggest daily rise so far amid a recent resurgence of the virus after weeks without confirmed domestic transmission. 2020-09-18
The office of Myanmar's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, releases a statement announcing that she will personally lead the legal team defending the Burmese military's actions against the Rohingya minority in the International Criminal Court. Nine days earlier, fifty-seven countries led by The Gambia filed a lawsuit in the International Criminal Court, formally accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya. 2019-11-20
Human Rights Watch releases a report detailing the alleged systematic rape of Rohingya women and girls by Myanmar's security forces in Rakhine State. 2017-11-16
Nine servicemen from the Thai army are arrested on suspicion of killing 13 Chinese sailors on October 5 in a section of the Mekong River bordering Thailand, Laos and Myanmar. 2011-10-28
Nine, mostly children, die, after an overloaded river ferry capsizes in the Irrawaddy River delta, in Myanmar. 2010-10-7