Schoolteachers in Myanmar, many of whom joined a national strike to protest the ruling military regime, have been increasingly caught in the crossfire following the February 2021 coup that overthrew the elected government. As of May, at least 40 teachers had been killed, according to the ruling junta. Educators who have gone on strike to
Myanmar junta soldiers killed two local militia members and torched over 20 villages near the Chinese-owned Letpadaung copper mine in northwestern Myanmar’s Sagaing region on Tuesday, forcing more than 10,000 civilians to flee, residents said. About 100 soldiers guarding the Chinese company Wanbao’s mining site fired heavy artillery shells and raided Moe Gyo Pyin village
A new nonprofit organization headed by a group of cross-party Japanese lawmakers and other officials aims to raise money to directly aid people suffering in Myanmar while also lobbying for a return to democracy in the wake of a February 2021 coup that put the nation under the grip of a military dictatorship. The Myanmar
Eleven civilians were shot dead or burned to death by military junta troops in northwestern Myanmar’s Sagaing region after the soldiers found a weapon in a pagoda compound where the displaced villagers had sought shelter, local residents said Wednesday. Junta forces shot six of the civilians from Kan Pyar village in Myinmu township in the
Russia’s arms sales to Southeast Asia have plummeted due to international sanctions imposed since the start of the Ukraine crisis in 2014 and the ongoing war will likely lead to a further decline, creating market opportunities for countries like China, a new report says. An article in the bulletin ISEAS Perspective published by the ISEAS
Nearly 100 religious buildings have been destroyed in two regions and two states in Myanmar more than a year after the military seized control from the elected government and plunged the Southeast Asian country into chaos and violence, according to data compiled by RFA. The 97 religious buildings that have been demolished since the Feb.
At least seven young Myanmar men and women from Tanintharyi region and Rakhine state have received long prison terms for donating money — U.S. $8 or less in a few cases — to opponents of the military junta that has ruled the country for 13 months, their lawyers and anti-junta activists told RFA. Military authorities
4 Southeast Asian foreign ministers are traveling to China today while a U.S.-ASEAN summit that was because of occur in Washington appears to have been delayed forever, prompting Chinese state media to carp that the area prefers to speak with China rather of the U.S. Chinas Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that the top diplomats
There is a shared belief that they can weather global sanctions and both governments are showing callous neglect for the economic crisis that they are causing their populations. Both have actually rapidly reversed over a decade of economic development. The junta in Myanmar oversaw an 18 percent contraction of the economy in 2021, and over
Homes, other residential or commercial property seized Junta authorities have on the other hand stepped up their confiscation of property owned by opposition figures, with almost 100 houses coming from National League for Democracy (NLD) members took within the last 13 months, 60 of them taken since the beginning of 2022, NLD sources say. Authorities
