Myanmar Satire Performer Gets Six Months Added to Sentence For Mocking Army
A leader of a satirical troupe in Myanmar has had six months added to a roughly six-year prison sentence for posting a video clip on social media mocking the powerful military in a skit during the country’s annual New Year’s celebration in 2019.Zayar L…
Myanmar President Appeals For Rakhine Elections Amid Truce in Conflict
Myanmar’s President Win Myint has called for cooperation among all sides in the Rakhine state conflict so elections can be held in the troubled state where voting was cancelled last month because of fighting, but a rare truce has held for five weeks.My…
Myanmar To Hold New Parliamentary Session In Feb 2021
Myanmar will hold the next parliamentary session in the first week of Feb, 2021, state-run media reported today. The term of the current parliamentary session is set to conclude at the end of Jan next year. According to the 2008 Constitution, the first regular session of a new term of parliament begins with the […]
Put Myanmar Army Back on UN Child Violations ‘Shame’ List, HRW Says
Myanmar’s military should be put back on the United Nations secretary-general’s “list of shame” for grave violations against children in the conflict in Rakhine state between the government military and a rebel ethnic army, Human Rights Watch said.In J…
New Parties Gain Little Traction in Shadow of Myanmar Ruling Party
Myanmar’s new political parties fared more poorly than they had hoped in this month’s elections, winning no seats at the national level in a landslide victory for the ruling party — a showing analysts put down to coronavirus campaign restrictions and …
Myanmar Pours Cold Water on Fresh Rohingya Repatriation Talks
Myanmar is not ready to join Bangladesh and China in talks on the repatriation of some 740,000 Rohingya refugees from Bangladeshi camps, a senior Naypyidaw diplomat said Tuesday, after Dhaka expressed hope for movement on the dispute following Myanmar’…
Myanmar Ruling Party Predicts It Has Won New Five-Year Mandate
Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy won enough parliamentary seats in Sunday’s general elections to allow leader Aung San Suu Kyi to form a new government, a party spokesman said Monday as NLD supporters staged celebrations in major cities.A…
European Union instrumental in providing support to vulnerable women in northern and central Rakhine State
In August 2020, a new surge in locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was reported in Rakhine State and other regions of Myanmar. According to the Ministry of Health and Sports, as of 30 October, 50 403 confirmed cases hav…
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi Seen Prevailing After Enthusiastic Vote
Myanmar voters braved long lines Sunday and were expected to return Aung San Suu Kyi and her ruling National League for Democracy party to power in a country racked with civil war and struggling with a surge in the coronavirus pandemic.Polling before t…