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The Malaysian government defended itself Thursday over heavy criticism after an online video showed Kuala Lumpur’s ambassador to Naypyidaw meeting with a minister from Myanmar’s junta, whose forces have killed hundreds of people in crushing post-coup p…

Myanmar’s military has shown itself to be a brutal force, meting out violence against the civilians it is meant to protect amid a popular rebellion against its Feb. 1 coup. The powerful Tatmadaw, as it is called in Burmese, has steadily escalated the v…

ROME – Pope Francis celebrated a second Easter as the coronavirus pandemic shows no signs of easing in Italy and has again forced a nationwide lockdown. The pope urged access to care and to vaccines for everyone, especially in low-income countries. He …

Demonstrations against military rule continued in Myanmar Sunday, with many protesters using Easter eggs to aid their movement.Eggs bearing slogans such as “Spring Revolution” and “We Must Win” as well as drawings of a three-finger salute were in the h…

Myanmar’s embattled citizens struggled with a drastic cut-off of internet and wireless data services Friday following a military junta order aimed at staunching the flow of videos and photos of atrocities to a global audience, activists and web users s…

The Security Council held closed consultations on the situation in Myanmar on 31 March 2021.The Members of the Security Council expressed deep concern at the rapidly deteriorating situation, and strongly condemned the use of violence against peaceful p…

Myanmar’s military junta ordered an internet shutdown in the country Friday that was met by defiance among anti-government protesters. Undaunted by the shutdown and the government’s deadly crackdowns on demonstrators that have killed hundreds since the…

Account for Missing Politicians, Activists, Others at Risk of Torture, Death(Bangkok) – Myanmar’s military junta has forcibly disappeared hundreds of people since the February 1, 2021 coup, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities have taken into…

Malaysia and China underscored the need for peace to be restored in Myanmar as well as the fostering of a collective development agenda for the country, said Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein.The minister, who is on a two-day official visit to Chi…

Deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was hit with a new legal charge Thursday, her first on-line arraignment in cases brought by the military regime that overthrew her elected government on Feb. 1, said her lawyers, one of whom quoted her as saying …

Envoys from several countries contributing to the Rohingya response will for the first time visit a remote island this weekend where Bangladesh has moved thousands of refugees, they said Thursday, amid widespread international concern about its safety …

It has been a sleepless weekend for 28-year-old Myanmar national Sai Lao Mai after the worst bloodshed back home since the February coup where more than 100 people died in a day.The restaurant owner, who has been living in Bangkok for more than seven y…

Myanmar security forces killed 14 people Monday during demonstrations in towns across the country following the deadliest weekend since the February military coup, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP). The group, which…

US President Joe Biden decried the bloodshed unleashed against anti-coup protesters in Myanmar as “absolutely outrageous,” after security forces killed more than 100 people including at least seven children.Myanmar has been in turmoil since the militar…

TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Taiwan’s Myanmar community came out in force on Sunday to protest the continued crackdown in that country following the military coup on February 1.Gathered beside Taipei’s Liberty Square, demonstrators sat for hours singing songs, hol…