Tag: Myanmar
The Myanmar nun who faced down a junta
"I believe God gave me the courage… I myself wouldn't be courageous enough to do that."
‘Living in a dark era’: one year since Myanmar’s coup
The country's military junta is struggling to contain the backlash unleashed by its power grab
Satellite images show village torched by Myanmar junta forces
Various visual evidence compiled by RFA show the scale and intensity of the destruction
Myanmar junta threatens pot-banging protesters with treason
Almost a year on the junta is struggling to break resistance to its rule, with "People's Defence Forces" clashing regularly with its troops
Aid to the Church in Need calls for ‘Day of Prayer...
The Church in Myanmar is faced with a task with which it is sadly familiar, that is to attend to the increasingly large number of displaced people
Catholic bishops of Myanmar appeal for humanitarian assistance
The Church leaders called on “all concerned” to facilitate “humanitarian access to suffering and internally displaced people”
Monks flee temples in eastern Myanmar as fighting intensifies
The UN said more than half the population of Loikaw township has been internally displaced
Philippines says Myanmar’s Suu Kyi ‘indispensable’ to democracy
The junta court has since hit Suu Kyi, 76, with five new corruption charges -- adding to a slew of cases against her
Outspoken news anchor reports from Myanmar’s jungles amid media crackdown
Each day, Htet Htet Eaindra Aung records a news segment in front of a greenscreen for online-only news outlets
Verdicts against Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi ‘a travesty of justice’
A military court sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison for the illegal possession of walkie-talkies and breaking COVID-19 rules

















