Internal Affairs

U.S. President Joe Biden sympathized with coronavirus-weary Americans Thursday while ramping up the government’s effort to combat the surge of the omicron variant across the country.“I know we’re all frustrated as we begin the new year,” Biden said in …

Cambodia on Wednesday postponed the first ASEAN meeting under its 2022 chairmanship, the government said, amid reports of differences among the bloc’s members over Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to Myanmar last week where he did not meet democracy lead…

Troops in Myanmar’s western Chin state have massacred at least 10 civilians, including a 13-year-old and a journalist, after detaining them days earlier, residents said Tuesday, prompting the head of a rights group to label the deaths “war crimes” and …

More than two-thirds of residents in the capital of Myanmar’s Kayah (Karenni) state have been displaced by fighting since last week, when the military escalated attacks on anti-junta forces in the region, a local official said Tuesday.Aung San Myint, a…

Burmese teak, a tropical hardwood favored by luxury yacht builders, is continuing to find its way to U.S. timber yards despite sanctions that civil society groups say should make its import illegal.In April last year, U.S. officials sanctioned Myanma T…

YANGON – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of DKK 25 million (USD 3.8 million) from the Government of Denmark for its emergency relief operations in Myanmar, where the need for humanitarian assistance has substantial…

ASEAN’s commitment to retain its integrity in the face of Cambodia’s dalliance with the Burmese junta will be tested at an upcoming in-person meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers, analysts said Monday.If member-states want to prevent the Association…

Hun Sen’s visit to Myanmar will do little to help the country’s people amid an ongoing political crisis that has led to hundreds of civilian deaths and thousands of arrests, analysts said Monday.The Cambodian prime minister and chairman of the Associat…

A military court sentenced deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison Monday for the illegal possession of walkie-talkies and breaking Covid-19 rules, raising to six years the jail time imposed on her in closed-door proceedings, so…

– Myanmar’s military, planned to further extend its ceasefire with ethnic armed groups until the end of 2022, according to a joint statement, issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs late Friday.Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, chairman of the State Ad…

While Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen put the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ Five-Point Consensus for peace in Myanmar back on the regional agenda during his two-day visit to the country, analysts said any agreement is unlikely to end the blo…

Fresh watermelons from Myanmar left to rot. Truckers trapped in long lines getting into fistfights. Trailers full of dragon fruit stuck in Vietnam.China’s strict border controls imposed to prevent Covid-19 ahead of next month’s Beijing Winter Olympics …

Myanmar’s State Administration Council Chairman, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, held talks with visiting Cambodian Prime Minister, Samdech Techo Hun Sen, in the capital city of Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.According to a release issued by the council’s Infor…

Cambodian Prime Minister and rotating chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Hun Sen arrived in Myanmar Friday for a two-day visit and met with junta chief Snr. Gen Min Aung Hlaing, despite protests over what is seen as his support…

The Burmese junta has protested to the International Organization for Migration about a website the U.N. agency set up to preserve the history of the marginalized Rohingya community of Myanmar, saying the site contains false statements.The site for the…