Chaos in Myanmar has allowed narcotics gangs to thrive,while crushing pandemic-induced poverty makes easy recruits out of young men up and down the border.
Save the Children says two of its staff members who were passing through the area are missing following the atrocity,in which dozens of people were killed.
A so-called statement of pardon was later issued stating that the Nobel laureate’s term had been halved and that she would be detained at her current location and not in prison.
Security forces are distributing inflammatory leaflets,stoking anti-Muslim tension,more atrocities are committed in the strife-torn south-east Asian nation.
Among the warrens of tents clinging to Bangladesh’s denuded hills,militants search for recruits,drug traffickers roam,kidnappers prey on women and children.
No journalists,diplomats or observers were allowed into the especially built court hearing the ousted leader’s testimony.
Suu Kyi faces charges of accepting bribes,conspiring to carry out corruption in real estate,plus sedition,flouting COVID-19 restrictions and importing walkie-talkies.
ASX-listed Myanmar Metals is under fire over the proposed sale of its stake in an historic mine to an outfit with alleged links to the military in the troubled nation.
Two Myanmar citizens have been arrested in the US and charged with conspiring with a Thai arms dealer to oust the opponent to the junta by tampering with his car.
The Australian economist is being held at a Myanmar prison reportedly rife with COVID-19 as the strife-torn nation faces an alarming outbreak.
The former adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi has developed cold and flu symptoms inside a Myanmar prison where COVID-19 is spreading.