Internal Affairs

Online and offline hate speech targeting Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims has reared its head in the run-up to national elections in November, as some candidates and others target the largely disenfranchised and despised ethnic minority group to gain support…

A Myanmar media site imitating the look of RFA has been outed by a watchdog group and local news outlets as a serial spreader of disinformation and hate speech, drawing calls for legal action from the ruling party that was the target of many of the fal…

Rohingya Muslims both in refugee camps in Bangladesh and in cities in Myanmar are raising humanitarian relief funds for Buddhist Rakhine people displaced by fighting in their northern Myanmar state, easing traditional hostility between the two ethnic g…

Hundreds of mainly Buddhist ethnic Rakhine people living in Bangladesh staged a rare, if not unprecedented, protest over the weekend against Myanmar’s alleged military aggression in Rakhine state, saying their community there faces “ethnic cleansing,”…

The Myanmar Humanitarian Fund (MHF) mobilizes resources for humanitarian actors to respond to critical humanitarian needs in Myanmar. It provides funding to both national and international humanitarian organizations for activities that are in line with…

Political parties faulted the Aung San Suu Kyi government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic Tuesday because of Myanmar’s rapidly rising number of coronavirus cases, saying a slow and poorly coordinated response allowed the predicted second wave of th…

MYANMARKachin State, close to 4,000 people were displaced in Myitkyina and Hpakant townships on 27-28 September following heavy monsoon rains and floods. The Department of Disaster Management, Kachin State Government, and the Myanmar Red Cross have pro…

Myanmar’s first openly gay candidate to run for a parliamentary seat in the conservative Buddhist country’s November elections wants to put an end to the abuse that members of the LGBT community say they suffer at the hands of the police.Myo Min Tun, 3…

Bangladesh Foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said it is time for Myanmar to interact with their displaced Rohingya people here in confidence building measures for a meaningful and durable solution.“We have requested Myanmar officials to come and talk …

Myanmar’s main opposition party and other small parties have called for a postponement of nationwide elections in November, arguing that quarantine measures to combat a resurgence of COVID-19 have hobbled campaigning amid growing fear of the pandemic i…

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday said China’s state-owned companies engage in predatory business practices in the Mekong River region and the Chinese Communist Party is responsible for much of the boom in trafficking of persons, drugs and …

  The Myanmar military has admitted that its soldiers were responsible for the killing of a civilian amid a clash

The Myanmar military, on Monday announced to extend the suspension period of military operation against armed groups for one more

Myanmar must address citizenship policies and other barriers to the return of ethnic Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh three years ago to escape a deadly military crackdown on the Muslim minority, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said in a statemen…

  A rebel armed ethnic group is taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to extort money from Kachin businesspeople in