- 25 November, 2024
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Myanmar anti-coup activists protest against junta with ‘silent strike’
(Reuters) - Protesters in Myanmar closed businesses and stayed off the streets on Friday in a "silent strike" against rule by the military and its ousting of the Southeast Asian…
U.S. slams Myanmar military over ‘credible’ reports soldiers killed 11 people
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Thursday that the United States was "outraged" by reports that Myanmar soldiers rounded up and killed 11 people in…
Suu Kyi sentence puts spotlight on Myanmar’s detained thousands
(Reuters) - Deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday, later cut to two, is just one of thousands held in…
Myanmar junta official visits Cambodia after Suu Kyi sentencing
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Myanmar's military-appointed foreign minister, Wunna Maung Lwin, held talks in Cambodia on Tuesday, a day after the junta drew global condemnation for sentencing deposed leader Aung…
Myanmar’s process against Suu Kyi has low credibility – Nobel Peace Prize chair
By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's conviction by a Myanmar court is part of a process whereby the country's military rulers are…
Trials of Aung San Suu Kyi, From Heroine to Villain to Convict
Put on trial by the generals who overthrew her elected government in a coup that cut short democratic reforms she had fought for decades to bring about, Myanmar's ousted civilian…
By PTI and Chanakya Forum
U.N. rights boss Bachelet denounces Suu Kyi conviction in ‘sham trial’
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Monday denounced a four-year jail term handed down to Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi after…
Myanmar’s ousted leader Suu Kyi gets four-year jail term in trial -source
(Reuters) - Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi received a four-year jail term on Monday on charges of incitement and violations of a law on natural disasters, a source…
Cambodian PM says Myanmar junta has right to attend ASEAN
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) -Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday he plans to visit Myanmar for talks with its military rulers and said junta officials should be invited to…
UN calls on Myanmar to halt excessive force after media reports five killed
(Reuters) - The United Nations has called for Myanmar to hold to account anyone using excessive force against unarmed civilians after security forces rammed a car into an anti-coup protesters…
Hundreds of telecoms towers downed in Myanmar coup resistance
(Reuters) - More than 400 telecommunication towers in military-ruled Myanmar have been destroyed by opponents of a Feb. 1 coup, state media reported on Friday, attacks which cellphone operators said…
U.N. says about half of Myanmar’s people could sink into poverty in 2022
(Reuters) - Urban poverty is on course to triple in Myanmar, pushing nearly half the population below the poverty line next year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as the…
