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Myanmar junta to put Suu Kyi on trial for corruption

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 17 06:30 PM

Myanmar's junta will put ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on trial for corruption, her lawyer said Friday. Read more »

Australian woman charged over fake coup plot

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 10 07:31 PM

Australian police on Friday said they had charged a woman for her alleged role in a coup hoax. Read more »

Myanmar junta agrees to ASEAN call for ceasefire to distribute aid

Reuters
Posted at Sep 06 05:04 PM

Following a coup in February, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been trying to end violence in Myanmar. Read more »

Guinea in turmoil after putschists claim coup

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Sep 06 09:09 AM

CONAKRY, Guinea - Turmoil engulfed the impoverished west African nation of Guinea again on Sunday as army putschists said they had captured the president and staged a coup, and the government insisted it has repelled the attack. Read more »

A former Rohingya refugee speaks: ’It’s not enough to just say sorry’

Johanna Son, Reporting ASEAN
Posted at Aug 31 03:48 AM

A former Rohingya refugee shares what it is like to be part of a community whose rights have been denied, their identity erased and basic life tools - such as education - withheld too. Read more »

Myanmar shadow government launches guerilla radio

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 20 06:45 PM

A Myanmar shadow government working to overthrow the junta launched a daily radio program on Friday. Read more »

Death toll since Myanmar coup tops 1,000: group

Reuters
Posted at Aug 18 04:28 PM

The Southeast Asian country has sunk into chaos since the coup, with protests continuing daily. Read more »

2 die jumping from building to escape Myanmar troops

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 11 06:54 PM

Two people died and three were injured after jumping from the fourth floor of a building in Myanmar to escape a raid by security forces. Read more »

Myanmar junta disowns plot to attack UN envoy

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 10 07:12 PM

Myanmar's junta had "nothing to do" with an alleged plot to attack the country's ambassador to the UN, state media said Tuesday. Read more »

Asia-Pacific foreign ministers hold talks

Kyodo News
Posted at Aug 06 10:06 PM

TOKYO - Foreign ministers from more than 20 Asia-Pacific countries began online talks Friday with regional issues such as the political crisis in Myanmar and maritime security in the East and South China seas in focus. Read more »

40 bodies found in Myanmar jungle after army crackdown

Reuters
Posted at Aug 05 07:53 PM

A Myanmar militia force fighting the army in a central part of the country and residents have found at least 40 bodies in jungle areas in recent weeks, including some showing signs of torture, a militia member and media reports said. Read more »

Brunei's second foreign minister named envoy to Myanmar

Kyodo News
Posted at Aug 04 08:13 PM

ASEAN foreign ministers agreed Wednesday on Brunei's second foreign minister as the group's special envoy to Myanmar. Read more »

Myanmar 6 months after the coup: ’We only have ourselves’

Ko Thet Paing and Johanna Son, Reporting ASEAN series
Posted at Aug 03 11:52 PM

Even as the pandemic rages — and has affected its ranks — Myanmar’s military has continued to arrest anti-coup protesters, those who have stayed with the civil disobedience movement that started right after the coup. Read more »

Myanmar junta chief says new elections in two years

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 01 10:27 PM

Myanmar's junta chief said Sunday that elections would be held and a state of emergency lifted by August 2023, extending the military's initial timeline given when it deposed Aung San Suu Kyi six months ago. Read more »

Myanmar coup: Six months of turmoil

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 01 10:45 AM

More than 900 people have since been killed and thousands of others arrested after the violent suppression of mass protests against junta rule.   Read more »

Q&A with a Myanmar artist: ‘Cartoons help the public see the truth’

Reporting ASEAN
Posted at Jul 30 02:32 AM

An interview by Reporting ASEAN's Johanna Son with an editorial cartoonist on the situation in Myanmar. It will be six months since the coup in Myanmar on 1 Aug 2021.   Read more »

Economy of coup-wracked Myanmar to contract 18 percent: World Bank

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 26 03:54 PM

Myanmar's economy is expected to shrink by 18 percent in 2021, the World Bank said Monday, as a result of massive unrest following a military coup and a resurgent coronavirus outbreak. Read more »

Jailed Myanmar politician dies from COVID-19 as infections spike

Reuters
Posted at Jul 21 12:30 PM

Myanmar politician Nyan Win, a senior adviser to ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, died in hospital on Tuesday after becoming infected with COVID-19 in jail, his party said, as the Southeast Asian country struggles with an exponential rise in infections. Read more »

Myanmar: ’The situation could become critical in weeks’

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 18 09:25 PM

The COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar is an emergency that is unfolding swiftly, and is much, much worse than what we know at the moment.  Read more »

In Myanmar, COVID-19 disaster adds to a confluence of crises

Johanna Son and Ko Thet Paing*, Reporting ASEAN
Posted at Jul 16 07:28 PM

Hospitals and quarantine areas are having to turn away patients, including those who need to be on oxygen support or ventilators. Ambulances queue up outside the Yangon general hospital, yet another sign of the crumbling health system nearly six months after the military took power in a Feb 1 coup. Read more »