Vice President Sara Duterte refused to comment on whether she is ready to take over the presidency should President Marcos step down from power. “Yan muna hindi ko muna sasagutin kasi magkakagulo tayo niyan (I will not answer that for now because we will have chaos),” she told News5 during an...
Malacañang stressed that the people behind the "transition council" only have one goal—to remove President Marcos from office for their "own vested interests." Palace Press Officer and Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro made the statement, following the revelation of Senate President...
A group of retired generals and flag officers warned against any extra-constitutional moves following calls by some individuals urging active military officers to withdraw support from President Marcos Jr. over corruption issues in the government. The Association of General and Flag Officers (AGFO)...
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief, General Romeo Brawner Jr. on Wednesday, May 28, denied rumors of an impending military overtake to unseat President Marcos Jr., stressing it will not happen so long as he is the country’s top soldier. In a statement, Brawner reaffirmed the...
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Southeast Asian ministers at the end of two-day talks in Indonesia on Saturday urged Myanmar's junta to implement a five-point peace plan agreed two years ago to create a path towards ending the country's political crisis. Indonesia -- Southeast Asia's biggest economy -- is...
YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's military authorities announced a six-month extension to a state of emergency on Wednesday, effectively delaying elections the junta had pledged to hold by August, as they battle anti-coup fighters across the country. The Southeast Asian country has been in turmoil since...
YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar democracy activists called for businesses to close nationwide on Wednesday to mark the second anniversary of the coup that toppled Aung San Suu Kyi's government, with the junta hinting it may extend a state of emergency and delay new elections. The military justified its...
Aung San Suu Kyi (AFP/File) NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar – A Myanmar junta court jailed ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi for seven years for corruption on Friday, a legal source told AFP, ending the 18-month trial of the Nobel laureate. Suu Kyi was sentenced to seven years on five counts of...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Three Southeast Asian foreign ministers and a regional envoy tasked with solving the Myanmar crisis met with the junta's top diplomat at an "informal" meeting in Thailand on Thursday, the Thai government said. The meeting came shortly after the United Nations Security Council...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A former British envoy, an Australian economic adviser and a Japanese journalist flew to Thailand late Thursday after being freed by Myanmar's junta in an amnesty releasing almost 6,000 prisoners. Japanese journalist Toru Kubota (C) is welcomed by his supporters upon his...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—​"​Patience​"​ is the key to deal with the deepening crisis in the military junta-ruled Myanmar. That was what President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen agreed during their bilateral talk here on Thursday at the...
YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's military chief said Friday the junta is open to negotiations with ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to end the crisis sparked by its coup after her trials in a junta-run court have concluded. "After the legal processes against her according to the law are finished we are...
