Legal Matters

Villagers in parts of eastern Myanmar’s Kayin state are afraid to drink water from local creeks and ponds, despite official assurances that the black-colored water has no connection to a nearby military-owned coal-powered cement plant, officials and re…

A Myanmar migrant worker in Thailand who became infected with the coronavirus said Wednesday that he contracted the illness from his Thai employer in a huge seafood market compound in coastal Samut Sakhon province near the capital Bangkok.On Monday, Th…

LONDON – Human rights abusers will face asset freezes and travel bans under new legislation adopted by the European Union.

A court in Myanmar sentenced two anti-war student protesters to a year in jail on Wednesday, hurrying them from the courtroom before family members could see them or hear the court’s verdict, sources said on Thursday.Kyaw Ye Thu, president of the Stude…

WASHINGTON – Maria Ressa says what she’s living through is Kafkaesque. The crusading Filipina journalist received a John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award on Wednesday from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the latest international recognition of…

Myanmar’s armed forces and their families can “cast their votes freely” in national elections this weekend, but should back candidates that support the military’s “Three Main National Causes,” the country’s powerful defense chief said Thursday as conce…

Fugitive ultranationalist Buddhist monk Wirathu, wanted on sedition charges following speeches he made attacking and insulting Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her civilian-led government last year, surrendered to police on Monday after eluding arre…

One man was killed and two others were injured in a Myanmar Navy artillery attack Wednesday on a boat hired by the Red Cross to deliver aid to civilians displaced by armed conflict in western Rakhine state, witnesses to the clash said.The vessel was hi…

A Thai pineapple processing company on Wednesday dropped a $9.6 million civil defamation lawsuit against British labor rights activist Andy Hall who in a 2013 report alleged workers were exploited and abused at one of the firm’s factories.Natural Fruit…

A Thai pineapple processing company on Wednesday dropped a $9.6 million civil defamation lawsuit against British labor rights activist Andy Hall who in a 2013 report alleged workers were exploited and abused at one of the firm’s factories.Natural Fruit…

Decisions by Myanmar’s Union Election Commission to cancel Nov. 8 elections in dozens of townships, including in war-torn Rakhine state, without consulting local political groups will disenfranchise more than a million ethnic minority voters, Human Rig…

The Myanmar authorities have seized a large amount of ammonium nitrate, in Kachin state, according to a release from the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC).The joint anti-narcotic police made a seizure in Mohnyin township.About 17,460 ki…

Rohingya Excluded, Unequal Media Access, Arrests of Critics(Bangkok) – Myanmar’s electoral process is undermined by systemic problems and rights abuses that will deprive people of their right to fairly elect their government, Human Rights Watch said to…

Rohingya refugees living on Bhashan Char said Bangladesh Navy personnel beat them with rubber clubs and tree branches last month when they protested their detention on the island, according to a Human Rights Watch statement on Thursday, drawing denials…

The arrest of an alleged fugitive with a shadowy past who leads an obscure Myanmar political party running the second-largest slate of candidates has sparked intrigue as well as criticism of lax election standards just five weeks before the Southeast A…