Malaysian FM: ASEAN’s Myanmar envoy welcomes informal talks with NUG, NUCC
ASEAN’s special envoy to Myanmar has welcomed the idea of engaging informally with Myanmar’s Myanmar’s National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC), a body of opposition stakeholders, and its parallel civilian government, as the junta has reneged on a pr…
Conflict seen escalating in Myanmar on anniversary of PDF
One year after Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG) established the prodemocracy People’s Defense Force (PDF), hundreds of anti-junta groups are active throughout the country and violent conflict is escalating with no end in sight, an analy…
US-ASEAN summit’s symbolism is its big message, analysts say
The United States is highlighting its commitment to Southeast Asia by holding a leader-level summit with ASEAN members this week in Washington despite being in the midst of dealing with the Ukraine turmoil, analysts said.But Washington is not likely to…
Myanmar’s 4 strongest ethnic armies reject junta invitation to peace talks
Myanmar’s four most powerful ethnic armed groups have rejected an olive branch from the junta, saying there can be no peace talks until the military regime allows the country’s shadow government and the paramilitary group that fights on its behalf to t…
PDF clashes with junta troops guarding mines in Myanmar’s Sagaing region
Prodemocracy People’s Defense Force (PDF) paramilitaries clashed with junta security forces guarding two Chinese-owned copper mine projects over the weekend in the country’s war-torn Sagaing region after the military attacked two villages in the area, …
ASEAN foreign ministers to meet in Washington before summit with US
Southeast Asian foreign ministers will meet “unofficially” in Washington on Wednesday to discuss the Myanmar junta reneging on a consensus with ASEAN to move the country back towards democracy, Malaysia’s foreign ministry said.At the meeting to be held…
Soaring unemployment in Myanmar follows junta rollback of labor rights
Thu Thu, a 37-year-old laborer living in Shwepyithar township on the outskirts of Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon, has been trying to find work at one of the Industrial Zone’s garment factories for more than two weeks with no luck. Using a pseudony…
Myanmar’s Yangon Int’l Airport Reopens After Two-Year Suspension
Myanmar reopened the Yangon International Airport yesterday, more than two years after the country suspended all commercial flights, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.An airport official said that, a Singapore Airlines flight that arrived at around 9.00 a….
Nearly 100 arrested ahead of Thingyan in Myanmar’s Yangon, Mandalay
Authorities in Myanmar arrested nearly 100 people in the country’s two largest cities and the Myawaddy township in Kayin state in the first 10 days of April as part of a pre-Thingyan crackdown, according to data compiled by RFA’s Myanmar Service.Of the…