Prolonged power blackouts and soaring fuel prices in Myanmar are hitting people in cities hard and increasing uncertainty for the country’s businesses, according to interviews with people in Yangon and elsewhere in the country.Occasional blackouts star…
The young woman from Myanmar and her family now live amid the tall grasses of a riverbank on the Thai border, trapped in limbo between a country that does not want them and a country whose military could kill them.Like thousands of others fleeing mount…
The U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the body’s Human Rights Council over atrocities it has been accused of committing in Ukraine.In a vote of 93 to 24 with 58 abstentions, the assembly suspended Russia for its “gross and sys…
U.S. authorities said Thursday that they had arrested a Japanese yakuza organized crime leader and three Thai men who trafficked heroin and methamphetamine and tried to acquire surface-to-air missiles for rebel groups in Myanmar and Sri Lanka.Takeshi E…
The deputy governor of Myanmar’s central bank was shot by unknown assailants on Thursday, according to sources and media reports, amid a public outcry over a new directive ordering the sale of all U.S. dollars and other foreign currency at a fixed rate…
WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTSIn the South-East, the total number of IDPs rose from 231,800 last week to 234,600 this week, the highest number since end of January.About 9,700 new IDPs were verified with a significant increase identified in Tanintharyi Region where…
