Malaysia has said it will not proceed with the repatriation of 5,000 Rohingya refugees to Myanmar if their lives would be at risk upon return. On Wednesday, government spokesman Fahmi Fadzil said the foreign and home ministries were still reviewing the repatriation plan voiced last week by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

The government began authorising legal employment for longstanding refugees in 2025. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Kim Aris, son of Aung San Suu Kyi, told NPR that photographs of his mother meeting a foreign official gave him "a reason to hope" for the first time since the military coup that ousted her in 2021.

YANGON: People displaced by conflict and sheltering in eastern Laymyethna Township, Ayeyawady Region, have been forced to move again after being affected by severe flooding, according to local sources.

After more than five years of fighting, a rare window for talks over Myanmar's devastating civil war is appearing, driven by a shift on the battlefield where the military has regained ground and mounting regional pressure to engage.

India and Myanmar are reportedly discussing a possible land exchange to settle an undemarcated stretch of their border along Manipur, a move aimed at completing demarcation

BANGKOK -- Myanmar's military government is poised to take a major step toward jet-fuel self-sufficiency next month, potentially reducing its dependence on imports that have become critical to sustaining its air campaign.