Myanmar’s junta enforces mandatory military service amid turmoil

A Myanmar court has sentenced Toru Kubota, a 26-year-old freelance filmmaker from Japan, to three years in jail for sedition and seven years in jail for electr...

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A woman in Myanmar has been sentenced to six years in jail for posting nude photos on OnlyFans. Nang Mwe San, a model and former doctor, was convicted on Tues...

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Rapper-turned-politician U Phyo Zeya Thaw, who also went by the stage name “Nitric Acid,” was one of four democracy activists hanged by the Burmese junta on Sa...

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Myanmar’s ruling military earned global condemnation after executing Hla Myo Aung, Aung Thura Zaw, democracy advocate Kyaw Min Yu and former lawmaker Phyo Zeya...

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Nobel laureate and former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, 77, has been transferred from house arrest to solitary confinement in a Nay Pyi Taw prison. The dep...

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Thomas Andrews, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, revealed the Myanmar military junta’s attacks on children. In a June 14 report, Andrew...

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Fortify Rights, a human rights nonprofit, posted a video showing Thai soldiers destroying a footbridge used by Burmese refugees to flee from Myanmar to Thailan...

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Democracy icon and formerMyanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, 76, was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to another five years in jail in a court hearing on...

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Japanese Yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa was arrested alongside co-conspirators for plotting drug distribution and purchasing U.S. surface-to-air missiles for My...

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Burmese families are posting notices in local papers to announce they are cutting ties with their relatives who are against the ruling military junta. The mil...

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