Myanmar junta is selling Rakhine's natural gas to China: Reports
Feb 04, 2023, at 07:06 pm
Naypyidaw: Myanmar's military junta has been selling Rakhine’s natural gas to China and it has sold over USD 1.43 billion worth of it in 2022, media reports said.
Myanmar declares martial law in 37 towns
Feb 03, 2023, at 05:52 pm
Yangon/UNI: Myanmar's State Administration Council has declared martial law in 37 towns of four regions and four states in the Southeast Asian country.
Jan 31, 2023, at 09:00 pm
New York: The UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday called for Member States to urge the military leadership in Myanmar to respect the will and needs of its own people, as risks to regional stability grow.
Myanmar: Car crash leaves five people dead
Jan 29, 2023, at 12:39 am
Yangon: At least five people died when a passenger bus collided with a probox car on Friday evening in southern Myanmar, according to a traffic policeman.
Myanmar mired ever deeper in crisis as human rights spiral backwards, warns Türk
Jan 28, 2023, at 09:50 pm
New York: Nearly two years on from Myanmar’s brutal military coup against the democratically-elected government, the country has sunk deeper than ever into crisis, undergoing a wholesale regression in human rights, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday.
Myanmar: Hundreds of political prisoners released, but thousands remain in jail
Jan 07, 2023, at 11:05 pm
New York: Hundreds of political prisoners in Myanmar were granted amnesty this week, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said Friday, but thousands more remain incarcerated.
UN rights chief on Myanmar refugees and a future of ‘kindness, empathy and unity’
Dec 31, 2022, at 10:00 pm
New York: Days after the latest sea rescue of Rohingya refugees by Indonesian fishing crews, UN human rights chief Volker Türk appealed on Friday for greater regional protections.
Myanmar court sends Aung San Suu Kyi to further seven years in prison
Dec 30, 2022, at 08:57 pm
A military-run court in Myanmar has sentenced Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi to seven years in prison for corruption, media reports said on Friday.
Dec 23, 2022, at 09:47 pm
New York: In response to the adoption of the Security Council’s first resolution on Myanmar since the military unleashed a brutal crackdown nearly two years ago, a UN-appointed independent human rights expert warned on Thursday that the carnage would only worsen without “strong, coordinated action” by UN Member States.
Dramatic increase in Andaman Sea crossings, warns UN refugee agency
Dec 03, 2022, at 06:52 pm
New York: UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Friday, issued an alert over the dramatic increase in the number of people attempting to cross the Andaman Sea, from Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Myanmar: Secretive military courts sentence scores of people to death
Dec 03, 2022, at 06:48 pm
New York: Since last year’s military coup in Myanmar, military courts have sentenced more than 130 people to death behind closed doors, the UN human rights chief said on Friday, following the latest convictions announced this week.
Myanmar crisis: Rights expert urges Korea to play ‘enhanced leadership role’
Nov 22, 2022, at 08:57 pm
New York: Concluding a six-day official visit to the Republic of Korea (ROK), a UN-appointed independent human rights expert urged the country to help reverse the international community’s failure to address the crisis in Myanmar by taking the regional lead in ending violence against civilians there.
Myanmar: Ex-UK envoy, Japanese filmmaker among 6,000 to be freed
Nov 17, 2022, at 08:54 pm
Yangon/UNI: Myanmar's military is set to release 6,000 prisoners including a former UK ambassador, a Japanese filmmaker and an Australian adviser to the country's ousted leader.
UN rights chief appeals for a halt in forced returns to Myanmar
Oct 29, 2022, at 12:43 am
New York: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Wednesday called for a moratorium on the forced returns of refugees and migrants to Myanmar, in light of the ongoing situation in the country.
Malaysia’s forced return of Myanmar’s most vulnerable must stop: UNHCR
Oct 26, 2022, at 09:22 pm
New York: Malaysia’s forced return of asylum-seekers to Myanmar has meant that hundreds of Myanmar nationals have been “sent back against their will” to the troubled country in the last two months, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday.
Myanmar: 8 die as twin explosions rock Insein prison
Oct 19, 2022, at 11:06 pm
Naypyidaw: At least eight people died as twin explosions rocked Myanmar's Insein prison on Wednesday, media reports said.
Japanese journalist arrested in Myanmar
Oct 13, 2022, at 12:27 am
Tokyo: Japanese journalist Toru Kubota, who was arrested in Myanmar earlier this year on sedition charges, was sentenced to three more years on Wednesday for the violation of immigration law while entering Myanmar, Japanese media reported, citing sources in the law enforcement.
Myanmar courts Russia, but raises tensions with Bangladesh
Oct 04, 2022, at 05:46 am
Naypyidaw: Myanmar may be another nation wanting to de-dollarise its economy.
Myanmar: Military court sentences Aung San Suu Kyi, Australia economist to three years in prison
Sep 29, 2022, at 11:32 pm
Naypyidaw: A Myanmar military court on Thursday sentenced the country's ousted leader and Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and her former adviser, Australian Sean Turnell, to three years in prison for violating the country’s Official State Secrets Act, media reports said.
Myanmar spiralling ‘from bad to worse, to horrific’, Human Rights Council hears
Sep 23, 2022, at 06:07 pm
New York: Since the Myanmar military launched its “disastrous” coup last year, UN-appointed independent human rights expert Tom Andrews said on Wednesday that conditions have worsened, “by any measure”.
Myanmar: Guterres strongly condemns army attacks which left 11 children dead
Sep 21, 2022, at 06:37 pm
New York: The UN chief on Tuesday strongly condemned attacks by Government troops in Myanmar on a northern rebel stronghold which targeted a school, leaving at least 13 dead, including 11 children.
Myanmar: Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi given three more years in prison on election fraud charges
Sep 02, 2022, at 08:18 pm
Yangon: A Myanmar court has sentenced ousted leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to a further three years in prison on election fraud charges, media reports said on Friday.
Myanmar shells land in Bangladesh
Aug 29, 2022, at 08:52 pm
Dhaka/UNI: Two mortar shells fired from Myanmar landed near the Tambru North neighborhood in Bangladesh's Bandarban district, officials said on Monday.
Myanmar: 5 years since Rohingya mass exodus, UNHCR urges solutions
Aug 24, 2022, at 08:00 pm
New York: This week marks five years since more than 700,000 ethnic Rohingya fled military persecution from Myanmar for neighbouring Bangladesh, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday, appealing to the international community for greater support.
Myanmar: Crimes against humanity committed systematically, says UN report
Aug 10, 2022, at 09:04 pm
New York: Crimes against humanity continue to be systematically committed in Myanmar, with ongoing conflicts severely impacting women and children, according to a UN report released on Tuesday.
Myanmar junta's execution of four democracy activists condemned by UN
Jul 26, 2022, at 05:45 pm
New York: The independent UN human rights expert for Myanmar called for a strong international response on Monday following the executions of four pro-democracy activists by the country’s military junta. In a statement issued later in the day, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said she was "dismayed" that despite appeal from across the world, military leaders had move ahead with "no regard" for international rights law.
Myanmar military executes four democracy activists
Jul 25, 2022, at 05:30 pm
Naypyidaw: Myanmar's military has executed four democracy activists,an episode which has triggered widespread condemnation, media reports said on Monday.
Northern Myanmar witnessing surge in China-backed rare earth mining
Jul 16, 2022, at 07:41 pm
Naypyidaw: Controlled by a militia sponsored by the Myanmar military, there has been a surge in illegal rare earth mining in northern Kachin State of the country since last year’s coup in areas along the border with China, media reports said.
Beijing wants instability in Myanmar: Southeast Asia expert Bertil Lintner
Jul 06, 2022, at 05:31 am
New Delhi: Veteran journalist and regional expert Bertil Lintner on Monday said that China wants instability in Myanmar, and wishes to remain a major controlling player in the politics of the Southeast Asian country.
Myanmar: Shocking toll on children must be spur to action, says UN rights expert
Jul 01, 2022, at 11:30 pm
New York: Myanmar’s military junta is responsible for shocking violence against children caught up in the bloody aftermath of last February’s coup, a top independent Human Rights Council-appointed investigator said on Wednesday.