Tag: Myanmar
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Pardon frees more than 2,100 political prisoners
Myanmar’s ruling military council yesterday said it was releasing more than 2,100 political prisoners as a humanitarian gesture. Thousands more remain imprisoned on charges generally involving ... -
Ban Ki-moon urges army to end violence
Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday urged Myanmar’s ruling military to take the initiative in finding a way out of the country’s violent political crisis, including ... -
Activists urge UN Security Council to refer military rulers to court
Human rights activists urged the U.N. Security Council yesterday to refer Myanmar’s military rulers to the International Criminal Court and urged neighboring Southeast Asian countries to ... -
‘I just want my legs back’: landmine casualties soar
The 3-year-old boy had taken only two steps from his mother’s lap when a deafening explosion rang out. The blast caught the woman in the face, ... -
Resistance steadfast against army rule two years later
The prospects for peace in Myanmar, much less a return to democracy, seem dimmer than ever two years after the army seized power from the elected ... -
Myanmar economy to grow 3%, dragged by conflict
Myanmar’s economy grew 3% last year and will likely achieve the same pace in 2023, but still lags far behind where it stood before the army ... -
UN: Myanmar opium cultivation has surged 33% amid violence
The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military’s seizure of power, with the cultivation of poppies up by a third in the past ... -
UN blocks Burmese military from taking seat
A key U.N. committee has again blocked Myanmar’s military junta from taking the country’s seat at the United Nations, two well-informed U.N. diplomats said yesterday. The ... -
Myanmar tops Asian meeting’s agenda as global issues loom
Southeast Asian leaders convene in the Cambodian capital today, faced with the challenge of trying to curtail escalating violence in Myanmar while the country’s military-led government ... -
UN envoy says crisis deepens, taking ‘catastrophic toll’
The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar warned yesterday [Macau time] that the political, human rights and humanitarian crisis in the military-ruled Southeast Asian nation is deepening ... -
Graft convictions extend Aung Suu Kyi’s prison term to 26 years
A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on two more corruption charges yesterday, with two three-year sentences to be served ... -
Model fearing military junta heads to asylum in Canada
A fashion model from Myanmar who feared being arrested by the country’s military government if she was forced back home from exile has arrived in Canada, which ... -
Myanmar bears cost of green energy
The birds no longer sing. The fish no longer swim in rivers that have turned a murky brown. The animals do not roam, and the cows ... -
Widespread condemnation of execution of prisoners
International outrage over Myanmar’s execution of four political prisoners intensified yesterday with grassroots protests and strong condemnation from world governments, as well as fears the hangings ... -
Myanmar executes ex-lawmaker, three other political prisoners
Myanmar’s government confirmed yesterday it had carried out its first executions in nearly 50 years, hanging a former lawmaker, a democracy activist and two other political ... -
Economy fragile as fighting, inflation hit poor
Army-ruled Myanmar’s economy remains fragile as civil strife, inflation and onerous policy decisions add to troubles facing farmers and businesses, reports by the World Bank and ... -
Amnesty Int’l says Myanmar army has laid landmines in Kayah
Myanmar’s military has laid landmines that have killed and injured people in and around villages in Kayah, a conflict-affected region near the border with Thailand, Amnesty ... -
Myanmar hosts first regional meeting since army takeover
Myanmar’s military government yesterday hosted the first high-level regional meeting since the army took power last year with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and counterparts from ... -
Accusations fly after bombing kills one, injures nine
Myanmar’s military government and its opponents traded accusations over a bomb that exploded in the middle of the country’s largest city, Yangon, killing one and wounding ... -
Big read: Myanmar military uses systematic torture across country
The soldiers in rural Myanmar twisted the young man’s skin with pliers and kicked him in the chest until he couldn’t breathe. Then they taunted him about his family until his heart ... -
Myanmar | UN criticizes sexist language used by ultranationalist monk
The United Nations’ human rights chief urged Myanmar’s leaders to condemn an ultranationalist Buddhist monk who called a visiting U.N. envoy a “bitch” and a “whore” during ... -
Myanmar | Army arrest more than 100 foreigners for illegal logging
The Myanmar army has arrested more than 100 foreigners and 20 Myanmar nationals for illegal logging near the Chinese border, the defense ministry said yesterday. It ... -
Myanmar | Catholics pleased to welcome first local cardinal
Church colleagues yesterday welcomed home Archbishop Charles Maung Bo, a day after his appointment by Pope Francis as Myanmar’s first Roman Catholic cardinal. Bo, the ... -
Myanmar | Woman fatally shot at Chinese-backed mine protest
An official from a Chinese-backed copper mine in Myanmar where a villager was shot dead in a protest expressed sorry yesterday at the incident and said ... -
MYANMAR | Kerry presses regime on democratic reform
To improve relations with the United States, Myanmar must make progress in its democratic transition and halt what Washington sees as backsliding on commitments to improve human rights, ...
