YANGON, Myanmar -- A woman in Myanmar has been jailed for 15 days for violating a city ban on non-recyclable plastic bags. The Voice news magazine reported Saturday the Chinese market vendor was the ...

YANGON: A Myanmar woman arrested by the junta for "spreading propaganda" is being detained over a Facebook post celebrating the 80th birthday of jailed democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi, local media ...

They were being hunted after “shouting and scattering leaflets written in opposition to the elections” in Mandalay city. Read ...

YANGON, Myanmar, December 29 (UNHCR) - In a place where jobs are scarce and social mores discourage women from working outside the home the opportunity to learn a new skill and contribute to the ...

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A protester speaks to a police officer during an anti-coup rally outside the Hledan Centre in Yangon, Myanmar Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. The daily protests campaigning for civil disobedience in Myanmar ...

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows a painting of letters that reads, "FREE OUR LEADERS," on a street in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, Feb. 19, 2021.

As a child, Ma Wai practiced Buddhism, the predominant religion in her Myanmar village. But a few months ago, aged 50, she joined the Catholic Church. Ma Wai began to “get a sense of Christianity” in ...

SUNY Cortland hosted two women activists from Myanmar on Thursday, Sept. 5, for a day of conversations about the collision of faith, feminism and ethnicity in their country, which is struggling with ...

YANGON, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's men's and women's Chinlone (caneball) teams won gold medals at the 2025 Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Bangkok, Thailand, the state-owned daily The Global ...

STORY: The aftermath of an artillery strike. At least 29 people, including women and children, were killed in Myanmar in the attack on a refugee camp near the border with China. The strike was one of ...

Born of Buddhist parents and raised in a Buddhist environment, I grew up as a typical Myanmar Buddhist girl. Under the care of my grandmother, it was hammered into my brain that we should worship and ...