Myanmar’s regime has started the process of drafting women for military service by registering Yangon Region females. In February last year, the junta dusted off the Conscription Law, requiring men ...

HONG KONG – Thai authorities rescued a Hong Kong woman from a Chinese call centre gang operating on the Myanmar side of the ...

Myanmar’s junta continues to list conscription-age women despite its denials that it is planning to draft females for military service. A Thingangyun Township resident in Yangon told The Irrawaddy: “A ...

A third Hongkonger tricked into working at “scam farms” in Myanmar will fly home on Tuesday evening after earlier meeting ...

Security Bureau confirms rescue of woman reportedly found on Myanmar side of border near Thailand’s Tak province.

The attacks targeted three monasteries in two villages under resistance control in eastern Bago’s Nyaunglebin Township ...

Myanmar troops committed widespread gang rape against women and girls in their ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya in northern Rakhine State, a new report from Human Rights Watch claims.

A new report issued by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre on Friday noted that garment workers have been faced with ...

A rickety wooden boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims landed Wednesday in Indonesia as the northernmost province of ...

Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it ...