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Myanmar violence escalating, UN rights chief says

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 11 08:49 PM

The UN rights chief said Friday that violence was escalating across Myanmar, warning that the country had plunged into a "human rights catastrophe" since the February 1 coup. Read more »

Myanmar junta hits Suu Kyi with graft charges

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 10 01:13 PM

The Myanmar junta has hit deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi with corruption charges over claims she accepted illegal payments of gold and more than half a million dollars in cash, state media reported Thursday.   Read more »

Escape from Myanmar: How a reporter fled to safety in Spain

Hazel Ward, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 08 11:43 PM

It was only when he boarded the plane that would fly him to Europe that Mratt Kyaw Thu finally felt safe for the first time since Myanmar's military coup on February 1. Read more »

China urges ASEAN to avoid 'undue interference' in Myanmar crisis

Kyodo News
Posted at Jun 08 09:46 PM

BEIJING - China has asked ASEAN nations to avoid "undue interference" in the Myanmar crisis, as the United States and other democratic forces have been imposing sanctions on the Southeast Asian country's junta, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. Read more »

Japan's lower house slams Myanmar coup, calls for return to democracy

Kyodo News
Posted at Jun 08 06:58 PM

Japan's lower house adopted a resolution Tuesday condemning the Feb. 1 coup staged by the Myanmar military and urging the Southeast Asian country to return to democracy.   Read more »

POEA temporarily bars new Filipino hires from working in Myanmar

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 08 08:15 PM

The The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said on Tuesday it suspended the deployment of newly hired Filipino workers to Myanmar, where a coup compounded hardship caused by the COVID-19 epidemic.    Read more »

ASEAN ministers urge Myanmar to halt violence

Reuters
Posted at Jun 08 12:26 AM

Southeast Asian foreign ministers urged Myanmar on Monday to halt violence, free prisoners and start its agreed dialogue during a meeting in China, while Singapore's top diplomat said the group was disappointed at its "very, very slow progress". Read more »

Myanmar's Suu Kyi to go on trial next week

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 07 06:40 PM

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will go on trial next week, her lawyer said Monday, with the Nobel laureate facing an eclectic raft of charges, from possessing unlicensed walkie-talkies to flouting coronavirus restrictions during elections last year. Read more »

ASEAN representatives meet with Myanmar junta leader

Kyodo News
Posted at Jun 04 10:45 PM

YANGON - ASEAN's chief and a top Brunei diplomat met with Myanmar junta leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing in the capital Naypyitaw on Friday to discuss the crisis following last February's military coup. Read more »

Amid divisions, ASEAN leaders plan Myanmar visit this week

Tom Allard and Panu Wongcha-um, Reuters
Posted at Jun 01 06:56 PM

JAKARTA/BANGKOK - The chair and secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plan to travel to Myanmar this week even as the 10-nation bloc remains divided on how to respond to the military coup there, four diplomatic sources said. Read more »

No breakthrough on horizon in Myanmar crisis 4 months after coup

Kyodo News
Posted at Jun 01 04:52 PM

With four months into junta rule following a Feb. 1 coup that ousted the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi, there is no sign of a breakthrough in the Myanmar crisis. Read more »

Myanmar carries out air strikes after militia attacks - witnesses

Reuters
Posted at Jun 01 07:10 AM

Myanmar's military used artillery and helicopters on Monday against anti-junta militias in the country's east, witnesses and rebels said, forcing residents to flee and join thousands of others displaced by recent fighting in the region.   Read more »

Myanmar COVID-19 outbreak hits health system shattered after coup

Reuters
Posted at May 30 11:45 AM

Myanmar's anti-COVID campaign foundered along with the rest of the health system after the military seized power on Feb. 1 and overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose government had stepped up testing, quarantine and treatment.   Read more »

The Myanmar police came for me. My unsuspecting mother offered them traditional tea.

Han Kha-yar* - Reporting ASEAN
Updated as of May 29 11:05 PM

I am determined to carry on journalistic work – as long as I don't get arrested by the police or soldiers.  Read more »

Total, Chevron suspend payments to Myanmar junta from gas project

Reuters
Posted at May 27 08:10 PM

French oil and gas group Total and US energy company Chevron have suspended some payments from a gas joint venture that would have reached Myanmar's junta, earning praise from pro-democracy activists for taking an important first step.   Read more »

Myanmar cardinal appeals for fighting to end after fatal church attack

Reuters
Posted at May 26 12:18 PM

Myanmar’s Roman Catholic leader has called for attacks on places of worship to end after he said four people had died and more than eight were wounded when a group of mainly women and children sought refuge in a church during fighting this week. Read more »

Myanmar junta leader casts doubt on return of Rohingya

Reuters
Posted at May 24 09:22 PM

Myanmar's junta leader Min Aung Hlaing cast doubt on the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to Bangladesh in comments made in his first interview since taking power in a Feb. 1 coup. Read more »

Myanmar's Suu Kyi appears in court in person for first time since coup

Reuters
Posted at May 24 04:11 PM

Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in person at a court hearing on Monday for the first time since her government was overthrown by the military in a Feb.1 coup, her lawyer told Reuters. Read more »

Myanmar anti-coup insurgents seize police post, kill security forces

Reuters
Posted at May 23 08:00 PM

Fighters opposed to Myanmar's military junta seized a police station in the eastern town of Mobye on Sunday and claimed to have killed at least 13 members of the security forces and captured four, local media said. Read more »

More than 125,000 Myanmar teachers suspended for opposing coup

Reuters
Posted at May 23 02:58 PM

More than 125,000 school teachers in Myanmar have been suspended by the military authorities for joining a civil disobedience movement to oppose the military coup in February, an official of the Myanmar Teachers' Federation said. Read more »