September 14, 2021

— A group of some 358 Myanmar and international civil society organizations is urging the United Nations to retain Kyaw Moe Tun as the permanent representative of Myanmar to the United Nations, ahead of a Tuesday meeting of the UN’s credentials committ…

Myanmar reported 2,273 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 434,106, according to a release from the Ministry of Health.The death toll increased to 16,617, after 87 more deaths were reported, the release said.According to the …

HUMANITARIAN SITUATION AND NEEDSJust weeks after the 2021 Myanmar Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) was issued, a military takeover sparked civil unrest. As the crisis persists it exacerbates pre-existing vulnerabilities and pushes a growing number of p…

Detained Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi returned to court on Tuesday after an absence due to poor health the previous day interrupted the re-start of her trial in the capital Naypyidaw this week, sources said.Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar Pre…

Anti-junta resistance forces in Myanmar joined up with an ethnic rebel group over the weekend and took over a military outpost in Chin state near the Indian border, killing 12 regime soldiers in the firefight, sources told RFA.A coalition of about 400 …

WASHINGTON – Four people are set to become the world’s first all-civilian crew to fly into Earth orbit when they blast off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Wednesday as space tourism takes its biggest leap yet. Weather conditions are 70% favorable for…