The long history of silent meditation retreats and the individuals who helped shape them

The Burmese meditation master Sayagyi U Ba Khin played a key role in shaping the meditation retreats that are popular today.

Old photo of quake-hit Buddhist landmark falsely linked to Myanmar army strikes

Myanmar's junta has continued to carry out airstrikes against territory held by armed resistance groups even after securing a landslide victory in January elections touted as a return to civilian ...
The Washington Post

Myanmar’s military choreographs an election, with Beijing’s help

YANGON, Myanmar — The election that is expected to assure the continued grip of Myanmar’s military generals over the isolated Southeast Asian country wasn’t engineered in its fortified capital but in ...
The Hill

US Myanmar policy is helping China — it must change

Myanmar’s generals have begun staging their long-promised national elections — the first since they seized power in 2021. Their aim is not to restore democracy, but to entrench military rule through ...
Human Rights Watch

Myanmar: Critical Hearings in Rohingya Genocide Case

(The Hague) – International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings in the Myanmar genocide case highlight the need for justice for the ethnic Rohingya, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, Global Justice Center ...
CNBC

Military-backed party in Myanmar takes lead in first phase of polls

Myanmar's military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party is leading after the first phase of a contentious general election, early results cited by state media showed, in the first vote since ...
The New York Times

Myanmar’s Election Is Derided as Fake, but the Nation’s Suffering Is All Too Real

A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy by holding elections. A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor ...
Human Rights Watch

Myanmar is Safe?

Is it safe to return to a country wracked by an abusive armed conflict, widespread atrocities, and targeted ethnic violence, including war crimes and crimes against humanity? TPS status protects ...
East Asia Forum

Myanmar faces permanent Balkanisation as the world tilts towards authoritarianism

Since the February 2021 coup that returned the centre of Myanmar to military rule, much debate has revolved around whether the military junta might collapse. The question has been whether the exiled ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Buddhist monks embark on walk of peace from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C.

Clad in brown robes, some barefoot, with simple packs in their shoulders, 19 Buddhist monks began their 2,300-mile walk of peace from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., to promote national healing, unity ...
The New York Times

Myanmar Military Paraglider Bombs Buddhist Festival, Killing Dozens

The junta targeted a festival in the Sagaing region where people were also protesting army rule, according to witnesses and the civilian government in exile. By Francesca Regalado Myanmar’s military ...
AOL

At least 18 killed by military bombing at Myanmar Buddhist festival, rights org says

LONDON -- The military junta in Myanmar dropped at least one bomb from a paraglider, killing at least 18 people and injuring another 45, some of them seriously, at a vigil protesting military rule, a ...