From performing critical legal functions to formulating financial policy, these nine women play pivotal roles that support and sustain Min Aung Hlaing’s criminal regime.

Amid the surging violence, young people are finding themselves even more deprived of opportunities and increasingly forced into submission.

Police have arrested a Myanmar woman for her involvement in running an illegal online gambling operation in Thailand.

It is an official holiday in more than 20 countries, including Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Ukraine, Russia and Cuba, the only ...

YANGON: As the world celebrates International Women's Day, it is essential to recognise the remarkable contributions of ...

Shanti Mohila, a group of Rohingya women who bravely fight for justice, should be celebrated this International Women’s Day.

On Wednesday (March 5) two women was stabbed to death in Waingmaw Township, while on Tuesday (March 4) the body of an ...

The United Nations food agency says that more than 1 million people in the war-torn nation of Myanmar will be cut off from ...

Women’s rights activists say that genders must work together to end all discrimination as a means to stop Myanmar’s conflicts.

Amid Myanmar's ongoing civil war, two women fighters from anti-junta armed resistance group the Urban Revolutionary Front (URF), based in Kayah state, share their personal journeys of resistance since ...

Contestants participate in the Miss Yangon 2025 Competition to mark International Women's Day in Yangon, Myanmar, March 7, 2025. Photo: Xinhua Lei Lei Win, founder of the Shwe Myittar Charity ...

SINGAPORE - A woman has admitted in court that she did not know the sources of hundreds of millions of dollars that were transferred to her firm’s three corporate bank accounts.