Tag: Myanmar

Open newsletter – february 23, 2022

ASIA A divide is emerging between how the Asia Pacific region has responded to the Omicron wave of COVID-19, and how North American and Western...

Open newsletter – february 22, 2022

AFGHANISTAN The Taliban is creating a “grand army” for Afghanistan that will include officers and troops who served the old regime, says the official tasked...

Open newsletter – february 21, 2022

from: Al Jazeera, Asia Times, Corriere della Sera, East Asia Forum, Euractiv, Global Times, Reuters, RFE RL, RUSI, TASS, The Interpreter, The Strategist  AFGHANISTAN The United...

Daily news – February 3, 2022 a.m.

AFRICA Artificial intelligence creeps on to the African Battlefield. Nathaniel Allen, Marian “Ify” Okpali, Brookings: Even as the world’s leading militaries race to adopt artificial...

Myanmar’s year of turmoil since the military took power in a coup (Reuters)

Myanmar's military took power in a coup on Feb. 1 last year after complaining of fraud in a November 2020 general election won by...

Myanmar tumbles into the abyss (Nicholas Farrelly, East Asia Forum)

Until the 1 February 2021 coup, Myanmar was gradually leaving behind the worst aspects of military dominance. The steps forward were still usually tentative and too...

Singapore PM backs continued exclusion of Myanmar junta from ASEAN meetings (Reuters)

Singapore's leader said the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should continue excluding Myanmar's junta from its meeting until it cooperates on an agreed...

Ousted Myanmar leader Suu Kyi faces five new corruption charges (Al Jazeera)

Myanmar’s military-installed government has filed five new corruption charges against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi in connection with granting permits to rent and...

Voices of concern at ASEAN over Hun Sen’s Myanmar visit (Al Jazeera)

Malaysia’s foreign minister has said that some Southeast Asian countries had reservations about last week’s visit to Myanmar by Cambodia’s leader, with concerns the...

Aung San Suu Kyi found guilty over walkie talkie charges (Al Jazeera)

A military-run court in Myanmar has found civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was overthrown in last February’s coup, guilty on at least...

Fleeing violence in Myanmar, thousands camp along Thai border river (Al Jazeera)

Thousands of Myanmar villagers have been forced to live under makeshift tents alongside a river that borders Thailand, fearful of returning to homes they...

Myanmar: WFP plans to aid 4 million through 2022 (UN News)

Ten months since the military takeover in February 2021, food insecurity in Myanmar has risen sharply, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. Myanmar:...

Protests, anger as Hun Sen visits Myanmar’s military leaders (Al Jazeera)

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has landed in Myanmar ahead of a meeting with coup leader Min Aung Hlaing amid protests in Myanmar and...

Hun Sen set for Myanmar visit as envoy warns of looming civil war (Al Jazeera)

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is preparing for a visit to crisis-wracked Myanmar even as his top diplomat warned that the Southeast Asian country...

UNESCO condemns killing of journalist in Myanmar (UN News)

Authorities in Myanmar are being urged to conduct a full investigation into the killing of a journalist last month, reportedly during an army attack...

In 2021, Myanmar journalists risked lives to tell world of coup (Andrew Nachemson, Al Jazeera)

On March 8, journalists Nathan Maung and Hanthar Nyein went to their office in Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon, in a bid to salvage some...