Muhyiddin, UN Sec-Gen held in-depth discussions on Myanmar and Palestine issues — PMO (Updated)
Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres, today held in-depth discussions on the issues of Myanmar and Palestine. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in a statement said the discussion was held after Antonio contacted Muhyiddin by telephone, which shows UN’s recognition of the important roles played by Malaysia in […]
NUG Myanmar and Japanese parliament members first online meeting
Myanmar’s parallel government NUG Myanmar and Japanese parliament members first online meeting was held on May 26. urges Japan government not to recognize Myanmar military, support CRPH/NUG bilateral agreement on nine points (draft) NUG မြန်မာ အစိုးရအဖွဲ့နှင့် ဂျပန်လွှတ်တော်အမတ်များ ပထမဆုံးအကြိမ် ဆွေးနွေး26 May, 2021အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ (NUG)နဲ့ ဂျပန်လွှတ်တော်အမတ်တွေရဲ့ ပထမဆုံးအကြိမ် အွန်လိုင်းမှဆွေးနွေးပွဲကို တိုကျိုမြို့ချီယိုဒရှိ ဂျပန်လွှတ်တော်အမတ်များ အဆောက်အအုံမှာ မေ ၂၆ ရက် ညနေ ၅ နာရီက ကျင်းပခဲ့ပါတယ်။အစည်းအဝေးကို […]
Aung San Suu Kyi appears in court in person for first time since coup
YANGON: Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in person at a court hearing on Monday (May 24) for the first time since her government was overthrown by the military in a Feb 1 coup, her lawyer told Reuters. Aung San Suu Kyi looked in good health and held a face-to-face meeting with her […]
Junta cuts off water and food supplies to rebel town of Mindat (မင်းတပ်တွင် အရေးပေါ်အကူအညီလိုအပ်နေသည့် စစ်ဘေးဒုက္ခသည် တစ်သောင်းကျော်ရှိ)
Thousands who fled the town as it was seized by the military are also in desperate need of supplies, aid workers say More than 10,000 people fled the town of Mindat in southern Chin State in recent days after the Myanmar military launched an all-out offensive there in a bid to crush an armed uprising […]
Do not give in to evil and division, Pope Francis tells Myanmar community
The people of Myanmar must not despair in the face of evil or allow themselves to be divided, Pope Francis said on Sunday (May 16) at a special Mass for the Myanmar community in Italy. Myanmar’s military seized power in a Feb 1 coup, derailing the country’s tentative progress towards full democracy and triggering protests […]
UN General Assembly to consider call for Myanmar arms embargo
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday (May 18) is set to consider a draft non-binding resolution calling for “an immediate suspension” of the transfer of weapons to the military junta of Myanmar, a UN official said on Sunday. Unlike Security Council resolutions, General Assembly resolutions are non-binding but carry strong political significance.If an approval […]
Miss Myanmar won the Miss Universe national costume contest with a powerful political statement ( မယ်စကြာဝဠာပြိုင်ပွဲတွင် ချင်းဝတ်စုံဖြင့် အကောင်းဆုံးအမျိုးသား၀တ်စုံဆုရရှိ )
Miss Myanmar Thuzar Wint Lwin won the national costume competition at Miss Universe on Sunday night with a powerful political statement. Lwin held up a “Pray for Myanmar” sign as she walked the stage, addressing her country’s current political crisis. The pageant queen has made it her mission to shine a spotlight on what is […]
Beyond the Coup in Myanmar: The ASEAN Way Must Change (မြန်မာ့အရေးအတွက် R2P ဆွေးနွေးတော့မယ့် အာဆီယံအဖွဲ့)
(Editor’s Note: This article is part of a Just Security series on the Feb. 1, 2021 coup in Myanmar. The series brings together expert local and international voices on the coup and its broader context. The series is a collaboration between Just Security and the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School). The Association […]
Miss Universe Myanmar Arrives in Florida With a Message for the Junta (အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်အစိုးရအကြောင်း ပြောကြားခဲ့သည့်မြန်မာမယ်စကြာဝဠာ)
Ma Thuzar Wint Lwin hopes to use her international platform as a pageant contestant to criticize the country’s military coup and support the pro-democracy movement. As a girl, Ma Thuzar Wint Lwin would watch the Miss Universe pageant and wish that she could be the one onstage representing her country, Myanmar. She entered her first […]
CRPH announce lineup of interim “National Unity Government” (အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်း)
16 April 2021The cabinet includes 11 ministries and 26 membersMyanmar’s acting vice-president was appointed interim prime minister on Friday by the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), a body formed of elected lawmakers from Myanmar’s ousted civilian government. Mahn Win Khaing Than served as the speaker of the Upper House until the Aung San Suu Kyi-led […]