Leeds started their controversial post-season tour of Myanmar with a 2-1 defeat to a National League All Stars side.

A group of five Leeds MPs have written to Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizzani, urging him to reconsider the club's post-season trip to Myanmar.

Leeds are planning a pre-season tour of Myanmar despite the UK Foreign Office's travel warnings being in place for various parts of the country.

A long-time Aung San Suu Kyi loyalist has vowed to prioritise the rule of law, peace and reconciliation after being sworn in as the country's new president.

The United States Holocaust Museum is revoking a major human rights award given to Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's civilian leader.

North Korea sent items used in ballistic missile and chemical weapons programs to Syria along with missile technicians in violation of UN sanctions - and banned ballistic missiles systems to Myanmar, UN experts said.

Japan's foreign minister has urged Burma's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to guarantee the safe and voluntary return of Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in troubled Rakhine state.

It is reported that Bob Geldof has said he is absolutely disgusted that Dublin City Council voted to remove his Freedom of the City.

Dublin City councillors have voted by an overwhelming majority to revoke the Freedom of the City awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi.

U2 has called on Dublin City Council to rescind the Freedom of the City it awarded to Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi over her response to the country’s Rohingya crisis, writes Joe Leogue.

Pope Francis has arrived in Myanmar in the start of a tour which will include visiting Catholic communities in neighbouring Bangladesh but the big question is whether he will utter the word "Rohingya".

Burma and Bangladesh have signed an agreement covering the return of Rohingya Muslims who fled across their mutual border to escape violence in Burma's Rakhine state.

Burma has subjected Rohingya Muslims to long-term discrimination and persecution that amounts to "dehumanising apartheid", Amnesty International has said in a report.

Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited the conflict-torn area of northern Rakhine state for the first time since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled the area.

Burma security forces killed hundreds of men, women and children during a systematic campaign to expel Rohingya Muslims, Amnesty International has said in a new report.

Thousands of Rohingya are continuing to flee violence and persecution in Burma and crossing into Bangladesh.

Burma's embattled leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has called for national unity and created a committee that will coordinate all international and local assistance in violence-hit Rakhine state.

UN claims 'coordinated and systematic' attacks on Rohingya are intended to prevent their return.

Concern Worldwide, Ireland’s largest humanitarian aid agency, has today confirmed it is treating Rohingya refugee children for severe acute malnutrition and fears diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases could break out if sanitation needs aren’t urgently met.

More than 60 people are either confirmed dead or presumed dead following the shipwreck of a boat carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing from violence in Burma to Bangladesh, the UN migration agency said.

At least 15 Rohingya Muslims, including 10 children, who were fleeing from recent violence in Burma died today when their overcrowded boat capsized in rough weather, a survivor and police said.

Aung San Suu Kyi has given an assurance that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled Myanmar will be allowed to return, a British Foreign Office Minister has said.

As hundreds of thousands of the Rohingya Muslim minority flee ethnic conflict in Myanmar, Brahma Chellaney looks at the history of the country’s simmering internal divisions.

Rohingya Muslims have called Burma home for generations. Now, in what appears to be a systematic purge, the minority ethnic group is, quite literally, being wiped off the map, writes Robin McDowell of Associated Press.

Latest: Aung San Suu Kyi has defended her country's actions against the country's Muslim Rohingya minority, as international pressure to end the violence grows.

This series of imagery from AP and Getty Images puts their plight in context.

Nearly three weeks into a mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing violence in Burma, thousands are still flooding across the border in search of help and safety in teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh.

Many believed nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi  had the qualities of which greatness are made. Perhaps, in hindsight, it is now clear Mammmy Suu only had the qualities of which power is made, argues Victoria White. 

A total of 176 ethnic Rohingya villages are now empty after all of their residents fled during recent violence in Rakhine state, Burma's presidential spokesman said.

Rohingya refugees from Burma packed into camps and makeshift settlements in Bangladesh have become desperate for scant basic resources and dwindling supplies.

The UN refugee agency has said some 123,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted in Burma on August 25.

Ed Byrne and Dara O Briain take in Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar for their new travel series, writes Jeananne Craig.

Interpol has joined the hunt for a British teacher wanted over the death of a colleague in Burma.

Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi has made clear to foreign diplomats, it does not matter if they call her country Myanmar or its old name, Burma.

A trusted ally of ruling party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, took over as Burma's president, officially ending more than 50 years of military-controlled government.

The commander-in-chief of Myanmar’s armed forces yesterday stressed the need for the military to remain a political force.

Burma's parliament has elected Htin Kyaw as the country's new president in a watershed moment which ushers Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party into government after 54 years of direct or indirect military rule.

Around 500 people have taken part in a protest in Myanmar after two men from the country were convicted of killing two British backpackers on a beach in Thailand.

A landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar has killed about 100 people, most of them villagers digging for scraps in a towering mountain of displaced earth, witnesses said. Many more people were missing.