published : 21 Apr 2021 at 21:39 A demonstrator gestures near a barricade during a protest against the military coup in Mandalay, Myanmar, on March 22, 2021. (Reuters photo) WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday imposed new Myanmar-related sanctions, targeting two state-owned businesses in Washington’s latest in a series of punitive actions following the Feb…
15 Myanmar migrants caught published : 13 Apr 2021 at 17:41 Fifteen Myanmar migrant are arrested after they illegally crossed the Kanchanaburi border to Muang district on Tuesday. (Photo by Piyarach Chongcharoen) KANCHANABURI: Fifteen Myanmar migrants – eight men and seven women – were caught by an army patrol in a forest near Phu Nam…
Fighters from an alliance of rebel groups reportedly attack a police station in a new escalation after the military coup.An alliance of ethnic armies in Myanmar that has opposed the general’s crackdown on anti-coup protests attacked a police station in the east on Saturday and killed at least 10 policemen, local media said. The police…
This photo taken and received courtesy of an anonymous source on Sunday shows protesters holding up eggs to coincide with Easter Sunday and making the three-finger salute during a demonstration against the military coup in Taunggyi in Myanmar’s Shan state. (Photo by Handout / ANONYMOUS / AFP) Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar decorated boiled eggs on…
published : 4 Apr 2021 at 17:14 Friends react during the funeral of Su Su Kyi, a local Myanmar staff member of South Korea’s Shinhan Bank, who was shot by security forces in Yangon on Friday. (Reuters photo) SEOUL: South Korean financial institutions have tensed up to review closure of operations in conflict-ridden Myanmar as…
published : 2 Apr 2021 at 13:45 The Myanmar junta’s suppression of protests against its coup has left 543 civilians dead, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) YANGON: Myanmar’s junta faced fresh international criticism on Friday over the deaths of more than 40 children and the “forced disappearance” of hundreds of people…
Activists in Myanmar have burned copies of a military-framed constitution in protest against Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s power grab, as neighbouring Thailand expressed “grave” concern over the security forces’ escalating crackdown on anti-coup protesters. People again took to the streets of cities across Myanmar on Thursday, defying a security force clampdown that has killed…
Hundreds of people have been killed in Myanmar amid an increasingly violent response to continuing protests calling on the military to step down and restore democracy. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, an advocacy group tracking deaths and detentions, says 510 people have been killed in the violence with Saturday marking the bloodiest day since…
A still from a video taken on Saturday shows protesters watching as smoke rises from a burning barricade during a demonstration against the military coup in Thaketa township in Yangon. (AFP Photo/Anonymous Source Via AFPTV) Security forces killed more than 90 people across Myanmar on Saturday in one of the bloodiest days of protests since…
Group found in Sangkhla Buri said job broker had promised them work in Thailand published : 27 Mar 2021 at 17:20 A group of 14 Myanmar job seekers wait at a plantation in Sangkhla Buri after being detained for illegal entry on Saturday. (Photo: Piyarat Chongcharoen) KANCHANABURI: Another 14 Myanmar nationals have been caught for…
Norwegian academic says campaign should ‘inspire other non-violent pro-democracy movements’ published : 26 Mar 2021 at 21:21 Local residents cheer on a convoy of motorcyclists preparing to stage a protest ride in Launglone, Dawei on Friday. (Dawei Watch via Reuters) OSLO: The civil disobedience movement that has sprung up in Myanmar since the military coup…
A group of police officers who defied the Myanmar army’s orders to shoot opponents of the coup recounted their experience after they escaped to India. While speaking, they raised a three-finger salute – a symbol of resistance to Myanmar’s military rulers. “We cannot hurt our people, that’s why we came to Mizoram,” said one of…