Legal Matters

Russia is cooperating closely with Myanmar to supply military hardware including aircraft, the Interfax news agency cited Alexander Mikheev, the head of Russian state arms trader Rosoboronexport.Rights activists have accused Moscow of legitimising Myan…

Myanmar’s State Administration Council, dropped some criminal cases with certain offenses, due to the suspension of court proceedings during the COVID-19 pandemic, state-run media reported yesterday.The council’s order said that, the proceedings of th…

Senior U.S. and Chinese diplomats are set to meet Sunday at a time of rising tensions between Washington and Beijing. The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, the No. 2 American diplomat, will meet with Fo…

BANGKOK – On an early April evening in a thick patch of jungle in eastern Myanmar, Win, a journalist with a local news outlet, waited anxiously for nightfall before slipping across a quiet stretch of border and safely into Thailand. Reporters Without B…

An internationally recognized expert in Uyghur folklore and ethnographer who disappeared in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) more than three years ago has been confirmed as being imprisoned by authorities, according to her former co-wor…

The murder of more than a dozen people whose bodies exhibited signs of torture and were left to rot in a forest in Myanmar’s remote Sagaing region this week was carried out by troops loyal to the country’s junta and should be classified as a “war crime…

The U.S. government on Tuesday expanded its warning about doing business in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), citing forced labor and genocide against the Uyghur ethnic group, while the European Union issued new guidelines to halt the i…

BANGKOK – The head of a Thai-based volunteer aid group, speaking from inside Myanmar, has described increasing attacks by that country’s military in the ethnic areas along the country’s borders with China and Thailand.Speaking to VOA by satellite phone…

Families of the victims of a brutal crackdown on anti-junta protests in Myanmar are calling on the Netherlands-based International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute those responsible for the death or dismemberment of their loved ones.On Feb. 1, the mil…

A five-year-old girl whose father helped organize protests against Myanmar’s junta was forced to endure stress positions during more than two weeks in detention, according to her father, making her what observers say was the country’s youngest known po…

The number of COVID-19 infections is on the rise across continental Southeast Asia, with Vietnamese officials on Thursday imposing lockdowns and other restrictions in an effort to reduce the spread of the virus amid a spike in confirmed cases.On Thursd…

China on Thursday closed the last two of its 10 border crossings with Myanmar amid a recent surge in cases of COVID-19 infection, suspending cross-border trade and leaving more than 1,300 trucks stranded on the Myanmar side, sources in Myanmar said.The…

In Numbers611,920 people assisted in December 20202,811 mt of food distributedUS$ 2.5 million in cash-based transfers madeUS$ 39.9 million in net funding requirements for all operations over next six months (January – June 2021)Operational Updates• Res…

A United Nations human rights investigator called on countries to impose economic sanctions on Myanmar’s oil and gas sector to cripple the junta that took power five months ago.Myanmar has been in crisis since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s ele…

Hundreds of young people turned out in cities across Myanmar on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of a 1962 student uprising against a military coup, calling on citizens to continue the decades-long struggle against the army, which again overthrew civi…