Myanmar
Nauru joins multi-country pact to keep supply chains open despite Covid-19 pandemic
Nauru has issued a joint statement with nine other countries, committing to ensure the countries' supply chain remains connected despite the global Covid-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 outbreak has made China a 'pedestrian's paradise'
Lew Dagger has been in China for the past twenty years. He lives and works in Jinghong in the south of Yunnan, close to the Myanmar border. He joins the show for an update on the impact coronavirus… Audio
Asia Correspondent Ed White
Ed talks to Kathryn about a new report based on interviews with hundreds of North Korean defectors, which has revealed the healthcare for women and infants in the country is likely in a far worse… Audio
The hunt for Asia's El Chapo
Tse Chi Lop is suspected of leading a vast multinational drug trafficking syndicate through the Asia-Pacific region that is raking in up to $17 billion a year. Journalist Tom Allard has been on the… Audio
Asia correspondent Ed White
Two years on from the atrocities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state the outlook remains grim for the more than one million people who fled Myanmar and are now refugees in Bangladesh. Ed White is a… Audio
Myanmar Rohingya crackdown was genocidal, UN failed in response - report
The UN's handling of a 2017 "genocidal" crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar was a "systemic failure" because of a lack of any unified strategy or support from the Security Council, a report says.
Pilot in Myanmar lands plane without front wheels
A Myanmar pilot has safely landed a jet without front wheels after the landing gear failed to deploy.
Reuters journalists released from Myanmar prison
Two Reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on war atrocities in Myanmar have finally been released from prison, more than 500 days after they were incarcerated. Some observers say it could… Audio
Rohingya refugees desperate as UN makes genocide claims
A UN report has accused Myanmar's military leaders of carrying out genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Muslim Rohingyas and other ethnic minorities. Virginia Pycroft is a New… Audio
'Killing indiscriminately, gang raping women, assaulting children'
A UN report has said top military figures in Myanmar must be investigated for genocide in Rakhine state and crimes against humanity in other areas.
Francis Wade - Myanmar's Enemy Within
Francis Wade is a UK foreign correspondent who is a Myanmar specialist. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, Asia Times Online, Foreign Policy, and Los Angeles Review of Books… Audio
The bid to prosecute Aung San Suu Kyi
Lawyers in Melbourne have filed a private prosecution application against Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on charges of crimes against humanity. The Attorney General says that the Myanmar leader… Audio
Thousands of Rohingya killed in Myanmar, charity estimates
Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) estimates more than six and a half thousand Rohingya were killed in the first month of a military crackdown in Myanmar. The charity surveyed thousands of Rohingya… Audio
Chris Carter on Myanmar: 'Aung San Suu Kyi doesn’t have much manoeuvrability'
Former Labour Party minister Chris Carter left New Zealand in 2011 for a role with the UN in Afghanistan. He's now working in Myanmar and for the past two years he has been leading all UN Agencies… Audio
Myanmar army replaces Rakhine general
Myanmar's army has replaced the general in charge of Rakhine state where an army operation drove more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.
At least 12 Rohingya drown in boat capsize
The refugees, mainly children, died after a boat packed with Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar capsized near the Bangladesh coast, officials say.
Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of 'Freedom of Oxford'
The city council withdrew the honour because of the de facto Myanmar leader's response to the Rohingya crisis.
Children drown as Rohingya boat capsizes
At least 14 Rohingya people - all women and children - have drowned after their boat capsized off the coast of Bangladesh, police say.
Rohingya Muslims living in ‘unimaginable conditions’
Charlotte Glennie, an ex-pat New Zealand journalist working for Unicef on the border of Bangladesh, describes the conditions 400,000 Rohingya people are living in after fleeing Myanmar. Video, Audio
Nights' Overseas Correspondent
Francis wade gives us some history and context to the unfolding situation in Myanmar. Audio
