In Gaza and Syria, journalists and activists feel Facebook censors their speech, flagging inoffensive Arabic posts as terrorist content. In India and Myanmar, political groups use Facebook to incite violence. All of it frequently slips through the comp…
ASEAN begins a summit this week amid uncertainty over Myanmar’s participation after the regional bloc barred the Burmese junta chief from attending and Naypyidaw threatened to skip the meeting.Myanmar’s military government said Monday that it had not d…
Myanmar’s junta-appointed Union Election Commission (UEC) has announced plans to change the country’s election rules from a “winner-takes-all” model to one of proportional representation (PR), drawing criticism from observers who say the military is ma…
A prominent Myanmar political activist is in critical condition after enduring torture at the hands of junta forces during his arrest over the weekend, his family told RFA.Kyaw Min Yu, better known by his alias Ko Jimmy, had been a staunch opponent of …
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment Monday of Singaporean Noeleen Heyzer as his new special envoy on Myanmar.She will succeed Christine Schraner Burgener of Switzerland, who will step down Sunday after three-and-…
Highlights• More than 1.8 million people in Myanmar have received WFP food, cash and nutrition assistance across urban and rural areas to date in 2021.• Since May, WFP has supported 1 million vulnerable people in its large-scale urban food response in …
The director-general of the World Health Organization said Sunday that unless countries use existing tools in the fight against the pandemic effectively, there will be no end in sight. “The pandemic will end when the world chooses to end it,” Tedros sa…
“Coral reefs are amazing and beautiful, and we must conserve them,” Sam Purkis, chair of the department of marine geosciences at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, told VOA.Although coral reefs only cover 0.1% …
