Tag: Myanmar

MAE SOT, Thailand (news agencies) — Thailand delivered its first batch of humanitarian aid to war-torn Myanmar on Monday, in what officials hope will be a continuing effort to ease ...

BANGKOK (news agencies) — A dramatic story of survival and rescue off the western coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province has put the spotlight again on the plight of ethnic Rohingya ...

MEULABOH, Indonesia (news agencies) — An Indonesian search and rescue ship on Thursday located a capsized wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees, and began pulling ...

BANGKOK (news agencies) — No bidders appeared at a court-ordered auction Wednesday of the family home of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, where she had been held ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (news agencies) — An increasingly assertive China and a humanitarian crisis in Myanmar are likely to be high on the agenda when Southeast Asian leaders meet in Australia ...

BANGKOK (news agencies) — Thwel, a 25-year-old schoolteacher, saw very few options left to her after Myanmar’s military announced it is implementing conscription to fill its ranks.“As a person living ...

BANGKOK (news agencies) — Myanmar’s military government on Saturday activated for the first time a decade-old conscription law that makes young men and women subject to at least two years ...

BANGKOK (news agencies) — When the army overthrew Myanmar’s elected government on Feb. 1, 2021, it looked like a walkover that could entrench the military in power indefinitely. Three years ...

LUANG PRABANG, Laos (news agencies) — China’s increasingly assertive posture in the South China Sea and escalating violence in Myanmar topped the agenda for Southeast Asian diplomats at their meeting ...