Myanmar’s military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates’ sentences as part of a ...

More than a hundred shaven-headed men pour out of their Yangon hostel around 6 am for a day of weightlifting, karate drills, dancing and Buddhist prayer -- drug rehabilitation, Myanmar style.

Myanmar's military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates' sentences as part of a ...

Michael Martin is an adjunct fellow at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He served as a ...

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Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the leader of Myanmar’s military regime, granted pardons for 5,864 domestic prisoners and 180 foreign nationals, who will be deported, according to state-run MRTV. Mass ...

As of January 2025, the junta reported power distribution at 48 percent for Yangon Region, 17 percent for Mandalay Region, ...

Myanmar’s military government will release more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates’ sentences as part of a mass amnesty to mark the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain ...

Myanmar’s military junta has been accused of carrying out arrests to forcibly recruit youths to bolster its depleting ranks, ...

YANGON: A bus with 45 passengers aboard rolled over on Myanmar's Yangon-Mandalay highway, causing one fatality and 32 ...

The freeing of prisoners began on Saturday and in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, buses took detainees out of the Insein Prison. Many were met by loved ones who eagerly held up signs with their names.