In the last two weeks, Bangladesh has summoned Myanmar's ambassador thrice over violation of Bangladesh's airspace. Dhaka is extremely concerned at artillery strikes that are landing inside Bangladesh territory.

Dhaka accuses Burma of airspace incursion; no injuries reported during airstrikes

Polls in Myanmar are slated to begin on November 8, a crucial test for the country’s first democratic government in half a century. But the country has to first pass a different test - the coronavirus.

Myanmar is gearing up for a crucial test of democracy, but it must pass other tests first

The Ministry of Health and Sports has issued stay-at-home orders in all 17 townships in Rakhine State and Yangon’s Thingangyun, Insein, North Okkalapa, Thaketa, Hlaing, Pazundaung and Mingaladon townships.

Myanmar elections: Low voter turnout expected due to COVID-19 rules

Myanmar soldiers swooped on several illicit drug labs to seize nearly $27 million of narcotics, chemicals, and equipment, military newspaper The Myawady said Monday, the biggest bust so far this year.

Myanmar seizes drugs, equipment worth $27 million: Military

January 12 in history: Transmission of first long-distance radio message from Eiffel Tower and more

Accessing everything from Wikipedia to Google Maps in Myanmar is about to get a lot easier when it finally adopts the universal code underpinning phone and online communication next week.

Myanmar to become last country to adopt Unicode for communication

Amnesty said masked Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army fighters killed as many as 99 Hindus near a remote Myanmarese village named Kha Maung Seik

Rohingya militants killed Hindu villagers in Myanmar: Amnesty International

Gowher Rizvi, international affairs adviser to Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, spoke to WION's Bangladesh bureau chief Saad Hammadi

Rohingya crisis: Impose sanctions, cut off investment, then Myanmar Army will come to its senses, says adviser to Bangladesh PM 

There is a battle of Buddhisms taking place on the streets of Myanmar

Myanmar and Buddhist extremism

As many as 370,000 Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh in recent weeks, adding to the 300,000 already there

We can feed 160 million Bangladeshis, we can feed 700,000 Rohingya: Bangladesh PM Hasina

As the Indian Prime Minister Modi lands in Myanmar, WION's Kartikeya Sharma speaks with Vikram Misri, India's ambassador to Myanmar

EXCLUSIVE: Need to rebuild relationship between our countries, says India's ambassador to Myanmar

There isn?t?much hope for the destitute and internationally abandoned Rohingyas - the most persecuted community in the world as declared by the UN.

No country for a Rohingya

"It is very obvious that the army is protecting the jade business and trying to control the land", says the head of Kachin Baptist Organisation

How jade, the precious stone, is funding ethnic conflicts in Myanmar

Myanmar, which reportedly has the largest number of child soldiers, releases 67 of such soldiers from its army today.

'My gun is taller than me': Child soldiering in Myanmar is far from over

The boy was killed as Burmese border guards fired indiscriminately on the Muslims fleeing genocide

Rohingya infant washes up dead, reminds world of Syrian boy Alan Kurdi

The $19.7-million haul was destroyed to curb drug trade, but opium cultivation and narcotics production are both on the rise in the country

Myanmar burns seized drugs on International Day against Drug Abuse

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