Sources: DNA India
Thailand announces that around 80,000 long-term Myanmar refugees living in border camps will be granted legal employment rights. 2025-08-27
Myanmar's military junta commutes 38 death sentences to life imprisonment as part of a wider amnesty. 2023-05-5
One person is killed and 60 others are injured in a prison riot in Pathein, Myanmar. 2023-01-7
Two women, one of them pregnant, are killed and seven others are injured when artillery hits a Rohingya village in Rakhine State. The locals blame Myanmar's armed forces. The armed forces deny responsibility and blame the Arakan Army, and say the artillery hit the village amid ethnic clashes. 2020-01-25
During her first speech before the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi denies all charges of genocide, blames separatists and says the accusations are "misleading". 2019-12-11
Myanmar police fire warning shots at a crowd of Rohingya Muslims after arresting two human smugglers at a camp for displaced persons near Sittwe, Rakhine State. Four people are injured directly by the gunfire, prompting the U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator to call for "calm and restraint". 2018-11-18
At least 20 people are killed when a boat carrying wedding guests collides with a river barge in western Myanmar. 2017-04-8
At least six people are killed and dozens injured from a 6.7 magnitude earthquake that struck 20 miles from the city of Imphal, the capital of the Indian state of Manipur, near the border with Myanmar. 2016-01-4
The European Union suspends most trade sanctions against Myanmar for a year but leaves an arms embargo in place. 2012-04-23
Three explosions hit the Myanmar cities of Naypyidaw, Mandalay and Pyin U Lwin. 2011-06-24