About a third of people tested for COVID-19 are positive. Experts say that’s just a fraction of the real caseload.
In a rare move,the United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly for an arms embargo against Myanmar’s junta,although China and India abstained.
Friends of Australian Sean Turnell fear that the junta need to convict him if they’re to find Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of passing information to foreigners.
Here I was in beautiful,beguiling Myanmar,about to start a month-long trial at its best-known newspaper,but finding a friendly face wasn’t as easy as I’d hoped.
Refused entry at every port,90 refugees languished at sea for three months. Indonesian villagers discovered the survivors on a deserted island.
Australian Sean Turnell,deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi,and others will face court on June 23,with lawyers concerned no legal representation will mean no transparency with the hearing.
The Australian government is being urged to introduce new sanctions on Myanmar’s military government in a document sent to Foreign Minister Marise Payne.
Countries in the bloc have requested a UN resolution dealing with the brutal crackdown by the military be altered to remove a ban on weapon sales.
For the first time since Myanmar’s military locked her up in a pre-dawn raid as part of its coup on February 1,Aung San Suu Kyi has been seen in person when she sat briefly at a court hearing.
Myanmar’s detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi vowed her pro-democracy political party would continue its work despite being slated for dissolution in her first public appearance since her government was overthrown in a military coup.
Teachers have been pressured to accept the coup as junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was healthy at home,in his first interview since he seized power.