PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Malaysia is set to lead a push for tougher action on Myanmar when a regional bloc of foreign ministers meet this week, as anger mounts at the junta for stonewalling crisis resolution efforts. The 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -- which has...
YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's junta chief has won approval to extend a state of emergency for six more months, state media reported on Monday. Min Aung Hlaing, who led last year's coup, requested the military government to "allow him to serve for an additional 6 months," according to a report in the...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday, July 27, retained the Alert Level 4 status in Myanmar, which means Filipinos there must be evacuated. In an advisory, DFA said an Alert Level 4 status, which has been imposed since May 6, 2021, should remain in place until further notice "to...
The Philippines has joined the Association of Southeast Nation's (ASEAN) position in condemning the execution of four opposition activists in Myanmar. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Tuesday, July 26, that the country supports its fellow ASEAN countries in denouncing the act and "is...
YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's junta has executed four prisoners including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent activist, state media said Monday, in the country's first use of capital punishment in decades. This combination of file photos shows undated handout photographs...
YANGON, Myanmar -- Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from house arrest to solitary confinement in a prison compound in the military-built capital Naypyidaw, a junta spokesman said on Thursday. In this file photo taken on August 17, 2017, Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu...
YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's junta will execute a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism, in the country's first judicial executions since 1990, a spokesman told AFP on Friday. Four people, including former MP Phyo...
In this file photo taken on September 21, 2016, Myanmar's State Counsellor and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the UN General Assembly General Debate at the United Nations in New York. A Myanmar junta court on May 4, 2022 rejected an appeal by ousted leader Aung...
YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment for Covid-19 on Friday further extended the Covid-19 preventive measures until May 31 in efforts to contain the pandemic. The extension is applied to all orders, announcements and directives issued by related union...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 27, 2021, Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (C) looks on as health workers receive a vaccine for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a hospital in Naypyidaw. A Myanmar junta court on April 27, 2022 found ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of...
YANGON, Myanmar – A Myanmar junta court on Monday postponed giving its first verdict in the corruption trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a junta spokesman told AFP, a case which could see the Nobel laureate jailed for 15 years. Suu Kyi, 76, has been detained since the generals staged...
(UNSPLASH / MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) said that the country's Covid-19 vaccine wastage has been minimal so far— at less than two percent. “This is lower than the 10 percent that the WHO (World Health Organization) has given as a standard for the vaccine wastage all over...
