Malaysia PM Anwar urges Myanmar junta to honour quake truce

BANGKOK: Malaysian Prime Minister and ASEAN chair Anwar Ibrahim said Friday (Apr 18) that he had urged Myanmar's junta leader to respect a post-earthquake ceasefire in backroom talks in Bangkok.

Junta officials have been barred from summits of the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) over a lack of progress on a peace deal since Myanmar's military snatched power in a 2021 coup and sparked a civil war.

But junta chief Min Aung Hlaing travelled to Bangkok on Thursday to meet Anwar, who holds the rotating chairmanship of ASEAN, on the sidelines of his talks with Thai officials.