The 117th Mekong River joint patrol was launched on Tuesday by law enforcement officials from China, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. According to the provincial public security bureau, two Chinese warships left Jingha Port in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, around 9 a.m. The four nations will conduct non-contact activities around the river … Read more
The dead bodies of 14 individuals were discovered washed up on a beach in Myanmar on Monday, according to police, with a local rescue group claiming that some of the victims were Rohingya refugees attempting to reach Malaysia. The migrants had been travelling by boat from western Myanmar, according to a local Rohingya activist. “Fourteen dead bodies … Read more
Myanmar’s junta will allow tourists to apply for visas after a two-year hiatus, according to state media, prompting an advocacy group to urge international visitors to stay away. In March 2020, during the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the government closed its borders to tourists in order to prevent illnesses from spreading. It became even … Read more
The delivery of new textbooks has launched a government and UN-backed effort to prepare hundreds of thousands of Rohingya youngsters for a future return to Myanmar. Around 400,000 school-aged children are among the more than 1 million Rohingya Muslims residing in a fishing port in southern Bangladesh after escaping violence and persecution in Myanmar. Over … Read more
A Myanmar military court on Wednesday dismissed Aung San Suu Kyi’s appeal against a five-year sentence for corruption handed down last week, according to a junta spokesman. Since a coup ousted her government in February last year, plunging Myanmar into upheaval, Suu Kyi has been in military custody and faces a raft of charges that … Read more
PTTEP, Thailand’s oil and gas company, and Petronas, Malaysia’s oil and gas conglomerate, announced their withdrawal from Myanmar’s Yetagun gas project on Friday. After last year’s military takeover and related charges of human rights violations, big energy corporations such as Chevron and TotalEnergies have left Myanmar. According to a local monitoring group, over 1,800 civilians … Read more
YANGON – A Myanmar junta court sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in prison for corruption on Wednesday, the latest in a slew of criminal charges that may land her in prison for decades. Suu Kyi has been held in military prison since her government was deposed in a coup in February of … Read more
The European Union on Wednesday slammed a five-year prison sentence given by means of a Myanmar junta court to deposed civilian chief Aung San Suu Kyi at a “politically stimulated” trial. “It represents another step towards the dismantling of the rule of law and a further blatant violation of human rights in Myanmar and yet … Read more
YANGON: A Myanmar military court will rule on Aung San Suu Kyi’s corruption case on Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the situation, in a case that may see the Nobel laureate imprisoned for 15 years. Suu Kyi, 76, has been imprisoned since a military coup deposed her civilian administration in February of last … Read more
A US commission stated Monday that nonsecular freedom has deteriorated “notably” in India under the Hindu nationalist government because it again endorsed focused sanctions over abuses. It changed into the third instantly year that the US Commission on International Religious Freedom requested that India be placed on a listing of “nations of precise concern” — … Read more
14 prisoners in Yemen released facilitated by Oman Oman worked with the arrival of 14 outsiders who were held prisoner in Yemen. And also moved them from Houthi-controlled Sanaa to Muscat on Sunday, Oman’s unfamiliar service said. Individuals liberated incorporates a British man, his better half, and a kid, seven Indian nationals, a Filipino. Group … Read more
Britain stated on Sunday it had secured the discharge of a citizen held since 2017 in Yemen, wherein he was allegedly tortured. “Delighted that Luke Symons, who became unlawfully detained, without price or trial due to the fact that 2017 in Yemen with the aid of the Huthis, has been launched and could quickly be … Read more
Myanmar anti-coup rebels on Saturday threatened to attack Chinese-backed mines inside the country’s northwest if the tasks are not closed down, saying the income has been lining the pockets of the junta. The Southeast Asian kingdom’s financial system has been in turmoil on the grounds that a coup ultimate February and a number of countries … Read more
According to the central bank, Myanmar’s junta would exempt foreign corporations, embassies, and international NGOs from a new regulation requiring foreign currency earned in the country to be turned into local currency. The Southeast Asian nation’s economy has been in chaos since a coup last February, with the military seeking tighter control over scarce foreign … Read more
YANGON – Myanmar launched the production of Myancopharm COVID-19 vaccines here on Wednesday at Myanmar Pharmaceutical Industry (MPI) in collaboration with China. Lt.-Gen. Aung Lin Dwe, secretary of the State Administration Council (SAC), said Myanmar has trialed and produced COVID-19 vaccines domestically in cooperation with Sinopharm CNBG. “Technology for vaccine production was obtained and foreign … Read more
GENEVA – The raging Ukraine conflict will certainly dominate the UN Human Rights Council session beginning next week, with Russia’s top diplomat among those set to address the increasingly polarised assembly in person. Hours into a full-fledged Russian invasion of its neighbour early Thursday, Moscow confirmed that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was still planning to … Read more
GENEVA – UN Security Council members China and Russia, as well as Serbia have continued supplying Myanmar’s junta with weapons used to attack civilians since last year’s coup, a UN rights expert said Tuesday. United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights situation in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, urged the Security Council to convene an emergency session … Read more
TOKYO – Japanese drinks giant Kirin said Monday it would withdraw from Myanmar, after a failed bid to disentangle its operations from a joint venture with a junta-owned company after last year’s coup. With international pressure building against the military since it ousted and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and waged a widespread crackdown on … Read more
PARIS: The announcements by TotalEnergies and Chevron have swelled the ranks of foreign firms that have quit Myanmar after the February military coup. As the civilian death toll from the military crackdown has surpassed 1,500 people, activists have ratcheted up pressure on foreign firms. Investors piled into the country after the military relaxed its iron … Read more
ANGON – Myanmar recorded 37 more COVID-19 cases of the Omicron variant on Monday, bringing the total tally of confirmed Omicron cases to 183, according to a release from its Ministry of Health. The release said the Omicron variant was found in 36 Myanmar nationals and one foreigner who recently arrived in Myanmar by relief … Read more
BANGKOK: The exit of energy titans TotalEnergies and Chevron from Myanmar’s billion dollar gas industry has been hailed by rights groups, but analysts say it will not significantly weaken the generals and may even enrich the military in the short term. Both firms had faced pressure to cut financial links with the junta that toppled … Read more
PARIS: French oil giant TotalEnergies on Friday said it would withdraw from Myanmar over “worsening” human rights abuses committed since the country’s military took power in a February 2021 coup. “The situation, in terms of human rights and more generally the rule of law, which have kept worsening in Myanmar… has led us to reassess the … Read more
YANGON: Nearly 1,600 tonnes of teak from Myanmar were exported to American companies last year, circumventing the US sanctions imposed to deny the junta millions of dollars in profits, an activist group said on Tuesday. The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since a February 1 coup triggered widespread unrest that the military has sought … Read more
YANGON, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) — Myanmar’s COVID-19 infections have risen to 532,167, and the death toll has increased to 19,293 on Monday, according to a release from the Ministry of Health. The ministry said the country recorded 105 new confirmed cases and two more deaths over the past 24 hours. A total of 510,277 recovered … Read more
PHNOM PENH, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) — Cambodia will provide millions of face masks and a number of medical supplies and equipment to Myanmar to help it fight the COVID-19 pandemic, a health official said on Thursday. The assistance includes 3 million face masks, 200,000 N95 masks, 100,000 goggles, 30,000 sets of personal protective equipment, 30,000 … Read more
KANCHANABURI, Thailand: Trekking through dense jungle and mountainous terrain at night to avoid arrest, one couple from Myanmar endured a gruelling journey to Thailand, grasping for an economic lifeline as jobs dry up in their coup-hit home. Myo Chit and his wife are among thousands of migrants who have made the crossing in recent months, spurred … Read more
SYDNEY: The world prepared to usher in 2022 on Friday after another tumultuous and pandemic-ridden year capped by new restrictions, soaring case numbers, and a slight glimmer of hope for better times ahead. The past 12 months saw a new US president and a new Adele album, the first spectator-free Olympics, and dreams of democracy … Read more
YANGON, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) — Myanmar reported 357 new COVID-19 cases with seven more deaths in the past 24 hours, according to a release from the Ministry of Health on Saturday. The number of total COVID-19 cases in the country had risen to 526,381 while the death toll had increased to 19,177 on Saturday, the … Read more
