Insurgents in Myanmar killed at least 15 people on Thursday (August 15) and partially destroyed a bridge along a major highway in attacks marking a major escalation in a decades-old...
Reuters journalists Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo and their colleagues accepted their Pulitzer Prize in the International Reporting category in New York on Tuesday (May 28). Earlier this month, Wa...
The release of the two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act is “good news” but the situation of freedom of expression...
Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen J. Adler called upon Myanmar to release two Reuters journalists on the anniversary of their arrests Wednesday (December 12). Adler said the incarceration of the two...
Hundreds of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh protested on Thursday (November 15) against any attempt to send them back to Myanmar after the launch of a repatriation plan was postponed. Bangladesh had...
Reuters President and editor-in-chief Stephen Adler urged Myanmar‘s government to correct the verdict in the case of two Reuters journalists “as a matter of urgency” after a judge sentenced them to...
Hundreds of people have gone to the hospital, due to the dense foul-smelling smoke mixed with toxic dust exuding from a dump site fire in the western outskirts of...
The British emergency medical team is preparing to fly to Myanmar to help curtail a diphtheria outbreak largely affecting children. “This is the UK response. And it’s one of the...
At least three million people worldwide are stateless, most of them minorities, a status that deprives them of an identity, rights, and often jobs, the United Nations Refugee Agency said...
PAMPANGA, Philippines — The sample of bird flu-affected chicken that the Department of Agriculture (DA) sent to an Australian laboratory from San Luis, Pampanga, tested positive of H5N6 virus. According to...
