UN experts and rights groups are more critical of government repression, which is marked by arbitrary arrests and killings, torture and military “sweeps” that include air attacks and burning down of entire villages.
August 4, 2022Phyo Zeya Thaw burst on to the public stage in the early 2000s as a dragon-tattooed hip-hop pioneer whose subversive rhymes targeted the then-ruling junta.
July 27, 2022The ICJ decision really is a huge step towards an overdue reckoning with the Myanmar military's atrocities against the Rohingyas.
July 27, 2022The ICJ decision really is a huge step towards an overdue reckoning with the Myanmar military's atrocities against the Rohingyas.
July 27, 2022Myanmar's ruling military announced on Monday it had executed four democracy activists accused of aiding "terror acts", sparking widespread condemnation of the country's first executions in decades.
July 26, 2022Myanmar's National Unity Government (NUG), a shadow administration outlawed by the junta, called for international action against the military.
July 26, 2022Myanmar, currently ruled by a military junta that seized power in 2021, had argued that Gambia, which brought the suit, had no standing to do so at the top UN court, formally known as the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
July 23, 2022Myanmar is not a signatory to the United Nations convention that prohibits the use, stockpiling or development of anti-personnel mines.
July 21, 2022Suzuki brand vehicles were produced in Thilawa Industrial Zone in Thanlyin, Yangon Region, after an auto plant has been established.
July 7, 2022One basic principle that all of the stakeholders could agree on was the urgent need for further assistance to Myanmar to find peace, preferably through a process of inclusive dialogue, he noted.
July 7, 2022India, which shares an approximately 1,700-kilometre-long border with the country, in the past, emphasized the need for Myanmar's return to democracy at the earliest.
July 5, 2022Cambodia has condemned move to restrict Suu Kyi to solitary confinement and has urged the authorities to send her back to house arrest.
June 29, 2022"It's confirmed that Phyo Zayar Thaw and [Ko] Jimmy would be on the execution list," junta spokesperson Zaw Min Tun said as quoted by CNN, without giving a date.
June 5, 2022The history of Myanmar is the history of struggle with coups, military rule, religious persecution, and ethnic conflict. On this course, the intense ongoing violence between the country's military and organised armed civilians is now leading the country to the verge of a full-blown civil war that is unlikely to end anytime soon.
May 22, 2022The Immigration and Population Ministry said on Thursday, "Our online e-visa service will resume with effect from May 15, 2022, for tourist visa applications."
May 12, 2022A court in the military-ruled country has sentenced her to five years in jail after finding the civilian leader guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases instituted against her.
April 29, 2022According to the Ministry, the number of Covid-19 infections in the country has increased to 612,132 with 19,434 deaths.
April 8, 2022