Myanmar junta to free 3,000 prisoners in Buddhist New Year amnesty
- 17-Apr-2023
YANGON: Myanmar’s junta on Monday began releasing more than 3,000 prisoners to mark the Buddhist New Year, without specifying whether those jailed in its bloody crackdown on dissent would be freed. The military has arrested thousands since its coup more than two years ago, which plunged the country into turmoil and sparked widespread clashes with […]
Myanmar junta extends state of emergency, likely delaying polls
- 01-Feb-2023
Myanmar’s military authorities announced a six-month extension to a state of emergency on Wednesday, likely delaying elections the junta had pledged to hold by August as they battle anti-coup fighters across the country. The Southeast Asian country has been in turmoil since the army’s power grab in 2021, and a subsequent crackdown on dissent has […]
Myanmar court jails Suu Kyi, Australian economist for 3 years: source
- 29-Sep-2022
NAYPYIDAW: A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Thursday sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her former economic adviser, Australian Sean Turnell, to three years in prison, a source familiar with the proceedings said. Both had been charged with violating an official secrets act, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years, and had […]
At least three killed as Myanmar villagers battle junta forces
- 06-Jun-2021
Myanmar has been in chaos and its economy paralysed since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in February and unleashed a brutal crackdown on dissent.
Lobbyist to be paid $2 million to ‘explain’ Myanmar’s coup
- 10-Mar-2021
More than 60 protesters have been killed and 1,900 people have been arrested since Feb. 1, when Myanmar’s generals seized power and detained civilian leaders including State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi
Thai junta chief vows elections in November 2018
- 10-Oct-2017
BANGKOK: Thailand’s junta chief said Tuesday the country would hold elections in November 2018, more than four years after the military seized power and imposed a blanket ban on politics. Prayut Chan-O-Cha had promised immediately after his May 2014 coup to return power to civilians within 18 months. That date has repeatedly slipped, and even […]
Fugitive Thai ex-PM Yingluck in Dubai, aiming for UK: junta source
- 26-Aug-2017
BANGKOK: Fugitive former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra fled to Dubai and may try to seek asylum in the UK, a junta source told AFP Saturday, after she ducked a legal ruling, wrong-footing the court and her supporters alike. Yingluck, 50, was due on Friday morning to arrive at the Supreme Court for the ruling in […]
Thai cops charge 8-year-old girls for tearing voter lists
- 23-Jul-2016
BANGKOK: Two eight-year-old girls have been charged under a draconian Thai junta law for tearing down voter lists for an upcoming referendum, police said Saturday, as authorities go to increasingly bizarre lengths to muzzle dissent.
Thai military holding junta critic over Facebook ‘like’
- 13-Dec-2015
BANGKOK: A Thai man who "liked" a doctored photo of the country's king on Facebook is being held incommunicado at a military base, the ruling junta said Saturday, as rights groups warned he risked becoming another victim of "enforced disappearance."