News About Myanmar

ASEAN’s special envoy on Myanmar has held separate talks with the country’s regime-backed negotiators and some ethnic armed groups, with all sides ​recognising there is no military solution to the civil war, ‌Thailand’s Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow said. Thailand is ready to serve as a facilitator and provide a venue for future peace talks, he said, marking a significant ​step toward reviving ASEAN’s stalled peace initiative for Myanmar, where an estimated ​100,000

Mizzima ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) warns that ASEAN’s shift toward “calibrated re-engagement” with Myanmar’s military-appointed government risks normalizing a dictatorship without securing any tangible results for the Myanmar people, according to a press release 15 July. “ASEAN cannot call this progress. What we are witnessing is the normalization of a dictatorship, dressed up as diplomatic language. Five years of impunity have not been met with accountabi

Mizzima The Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs said Secretary Ma. Theresa P. Lazaro, the ASEAN chair’s special envoy on Myanmar, will lead a humanitarian mission to Myanmar in the fourth quarter of this year to expand access to areas in need, according to a statement dated 14 July. The pledge followed back-to-back meetings Lazaro held on Myanmar in Bangkok and Pattaya, Thailand, hosted by Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow, on 12-13 July. In Bangkok on 12 Jul

Mizzima Myanmar’s military-controlled media said 14 July that international air travelers entering the country with mobile phones bought abroad must register each device with the junta’s Central Equipment Identity Register, submitting passport copies, boarding passes and flight tickets within 30 days of arrival or face fines on top of applicable taxes, under a procedure detailed for Yangon, Naypyidaw and Mandalay international airports. According to the notice, the requiremen

Mizzima The Philippines Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar, Ma. Theresa P. Lazaro, concluded back-to-back meetings on 12-13 July to discuss the political situation in Myanmar. The meetings were hosted by Thai Foreign Minister, Sihasak Phuangketkeow, in Bangkok and Pattaya, Thailand, respectively, according to the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs on 14 July. On 12 July, the Secretary held a bilateral meeting with Myanmar count

Mizzima Nearly 3.8 million people are displaced across Myanmar and more than 16 million need humanitarian assistance, but international donors have funded less than half of this year’s aid appeal and relief agencies have reached only a third of the people they are trying to help, the United Nations said in a report released 13 July. Myanmar has been mired in conflict and economic collapse since the military’s February 2021 coup, and the crisis has deepened further amid recent