Recruits marched to training as Myanmar junta presses conscription
Yangon, Myanmar – Myanmar’s embattled junta is pressing ahead with military conscription, state media said Tuesday, with video footage showing new recruits being marched to training centres across the...
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Thousands mark Buddha’s birthday at Myanmar’s Shwedagon pagoda
Thousands of Buddhist devotees gathered at Myanmar’s Shwedagon pagoda on Wednesday to mark the Buddha’s birthday and to water a sacred Bodhi tree believed to be linked to his enlightenment. Crowds...
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‘Our revolution’: Myanmar LGBTQ couple tie knot at Thai Pride
Cheers erupt as Nyan and Mae, a queer couple from Myanmar, tie the knot in front of thousands at the annual Pride parade in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. Denied the chance to celebrate their...
View ArticleBattered, empty Myanmar town shows price of victory against junta
Pauktaw, Myanmar – Gutted buildings, vacant windows and blocks bombed to rubble show the price paid by the western Myanmar town of Pauktaw for victory against the junta in the country’s civil war....
View ArticleTin Oo, Myanmar activist and Suu Kyi confidante, dies
Tin Oo, a Myanmar general turned democracy activist and founding member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, died on Saturday aged 97, an aide and local media said. Tin Oo rose to...
View ArticleHundreds mark funeral of Myanmar general turned Suu Kyi ally
Hundreds of mourners turned out Wednesday to pay their respects to a former Myanmar general turned democracy activist and confidant of Aung San Suu Kyi, in a rare sanctioned public gathering in the...
View ArticleASEAN Troika to meet next month in Laos
ASEAN rotational chairs, both past and future, will hold their first meeting next month to discuss progress on the ASEAN Five-Point Consensus and the situation in Myanmar, according to a diplomatic...
View ArticleFirst Myanmar junta conscripts to begin duty at end of month
Yangon, Myanmar – A first batch of 5,000 conscripts called up by Myanmar‘s junta will begin duty at the end of this month, military sources told AFP on Monday, as the generals struggle to crush...
View ArticleMyanmar junta chief apologises after security forces shoot dead prominent...
Yangon, Myanmar – Myanmar’s junta chief has made a rare apology after security forces killed the popular abbot of a Buddhist monastery in an incident the military initially blamed on opponents of its...
View ArticleMyanmar junta says ‘facing challenges’ curbing opium boom
Conflict-ravaged Myanmar is “facing challenges” in stemming opium poppy cultivation, the junta said Wednesday, months after the UN warned the country had become the world’s biggest producer of the...
View ArticleMSF to halt medical work in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine
Yangon, Myanmar – The charity Doctors Without Borders will halt medical activities in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state due to an “extreme escalation of conflict” between an ethnic armed group and the...
View ArticleJapan supermarket chain director arrested in Myanmar for price gouging
Myanmar authorities have arrested a Japanese national working for retail giant Aeon for allegedly selling rice at artificially high prices, the junta said, with Tokyo demanding his immediate release....
View ArticleMyanmar temple city pines for tourists as conflict rages
Bagan, Myanmar – The domes and spires of Myanmar’s temple city of Bagan mark an island of calm in the country’s raging civil war, but with conflict keeping tourists away locals are struggling to make...
View ArticleAmid UN scrutiny, a tough balancing act for Thai firms in Myanmar
Thai banks and energy conglomerates have come under intense scrutiny following allegations by the United Nations and human rights organizations that some of them had served as conduits for the...
View ArticleMyanmar alliance agrees to extend ceasefire with junta in Shan state
Yangon, Myanmar – An alliance of armed groups in Myanmar has agreed to extend a ceasefire with the junta in northern Shan state after “pressure” from China, a leader of one of the groups said on...
View ArticleInternet and cell phone signals from Thailand into Golden Triangle cut
The Thai police and officials have begun cutting off telecom signals sent to areas surrounding the King’s Roman entertainment complex in the Golden Triangle today, and dismantling illegal cell sites...
View ArticleThai central bank to investigate Myanmar weapons payments
Thailand’s central bank and anti-laundering office will investigate claims that Thai commercial banks facilitated transactions linked to weapons purchases by Myanmar’s junta, a foreign ministry said...
View ArticleIndonesia FM slams Myanmar junta shunning of peace plan
Indonesia’s foreign minister on Thursday slammed the Myanmar junta’s unwillingness to engage with a regional peace plan to resolve the crisis sparked by its 2021 coup. Retno Marsudi made the remarks...
View ArticleSoutheast Asia top diplomats condemn Myanmar violence, urge peaceful means to...
Vientiane, Laos — Southeast Asian top diplomats on Saturday condemned violence in Myanmar’s ongoing civil war and urged for “practical” means to defuse rising tensions in the South China Sea during...
View ArticleMyanmar junta extends emergency rule amid escalating conflict
Myanmar’s embattled military government extended a state of emergency on Wednesday for another six months, state media said, as the junta struggles to maintain its grip on power with fighting flaring...
View ArticleMyanmar airstrikes on border hospital near China kill 10: media
Myanmar military airstrikes hit a hospital in a city controlled by an ethnic minority armed group close to the China border killing 10 people, local media reported on Friday. Military planes carried...
View ArticleMaris to head special committee on Myanmar
Foreign Minister Maris Sagiampongsa will be appointed as the head of a special inter-agency committee to manage the impacts of the Myanmar crisis, according to an informed source. The source indicated...
View ArticleMyanmar military says it withdrew ‘for safety of people’
Myanmar’s military withdrew from some positions close to China’s border to prioritise the “safety of people”, the junta chief said, days after an alliance of ethnic armed groups said they had routed...
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