News About Myanmar

The National Unity Government (NUG) -Madayar Township People’s Defence Force stated that they would use all their members to defend the township in Mandalay Region. -Ministry of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Risks Management-NUG stated that an earthquake with Richter Scale 4.2 had hit in the north and northeast of Mandalay at 5:48 am Tuesday. -According to Ministry of Human Rights-NUG on Tuesday, there have been up to 5,124 cases of ruthless murders by the military jun

Mizzima On 3 November, the ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) issued a statement after the 47th ASEAN Summit. At the Pathways to Democracy Conference in Kuala Lumpur, regional lawmakers and civil society leaders called for decisive action from ASEAN to restore democracy in Myanmar. The text of the statement is as follows. Days after ASEAN leaders concluded the 47th annual Summit, Southeast Asian lawmakers gathered in Kuala Lumpur with one message; restoration of d

Mizzima On 3 November, Kim Aris, the son of imprisoned democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, issued a statement from London expressing heartfelt gratitude to President Emmanuel Macron, the Government of France, and the people of France for their steadfast support for Myanmar’s struggle for freedom, democracy, and human rights. The text of the statement continues below. Kim Aris, son of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, expresses his profound gratitude to President Emmanuel Macron, the G

A Chinese court sentenced five criminals to death and others to prison for operating call-centre scams in Kokang, northern Myanmar, that caused multiple deaths. Xinhua reported that on Tuesday (November 4), the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in Guangdong province sentenced five defendants to death for their involvement in a criminal network operating in the Kokang region of northern Myanmar. The group was convicted of multiple offences, including fraud, intentional hom

China sentenced five people to death on Tuesday for their involvement in a violent criminal gang with fraud operations in Myanmar’s Kokang region along the border, state media reported. Scam compounds have flourished in Myanmar’s lawless borderlands, staffed by foreigners—many of them Chinese—who often say they were trafficked and forced to swindle people online as part of a multibillion-dollar illicit industry. Beijing has stepped up cooperation with Southeast Asian nations

Kim Aris, the son of 80-year-old Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, shared a letter from French President Emmanuel Macron calling for the immediate release of Myanmar’s jailed State Counsellor on Tuesday.  “I was very concerned to learn, through information provided by your son, of the deterioration of your health and the difficulty you face in accessing appropriate care, in the context of an unjust detention, which France has repeatedly denounced,” President Macron wrote in th