Advocacy groups representing foreign workers in Thailand’s seafood industry called on the government Tuesday to ensure that employment contracts are made transparent, and to act to prevent workplace exploitation or abuses aboard Thai-owned fishing boat…
Thanks to a generous contribution from the European Union, the FAO ProAct project is rehabilitating five irrigation infrastructures in four townships in central and northern Rakhine State through cash-for-work (CFW) activities. A total of 596 vulnerabl…
(Bangkok) — Myanmar’s security forces have arbitrarily detained thousands of people and, according to numerous credible sources, subjected many to torture, routine beatings, and other ill-treatment since the February 1, 2021 military coup, Human Right…
Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, and Myanmar’s military leader committed to further strengthening security and other ties between the two countries at a Moscow meeting on Monday.Myanmar’s military leader, Senior General M…
NEPALHeavy rainfall brought by the onset of the monsoon in Nepal has triggered floods and landslides across the country, particularly affecting the hill regions of Bagmati and Gandaki provinces. On 15 June, a landslide near Melamchigyang blocked the Me…
The EU added eight more officials from Myanmar’s junta and three firms linked to the military to its sanctions blacklist over the coup and bloody repression of protests. Those targeted with asset freezes and visa bans included the interior, securit…
Sponsors of a U.N. resolution on Myanmar appear to have weakened language barring international arms sales to the Southeast Asian country, where hundreds have been killed after a military coup, a revised draft uploaded on the General Assembly’s website…
Capt. Lin Htet Aung left the Myanmar Army’s Light Infantry Battalion #528 to join pro-democracy forces resisting the military coup that seized power from the elected government on Feb. 1, citing voting fraud in the November 2020 elections. He told Khin…
