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...
UNITED NATIONS, United States -- The UN Security Council called for Myanmar's junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi Wednesday as it adopted its first ever resolution on the situation in the turmoil-ridden Southeast Asian country. The 15-member Council has been split on Myanmar for decades and was...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Myanmar junta handed out at least seven more death sentences this week, taking the tally of those on death row to 139, according to the United Nations. A junta spokesperson did not respond to calls from outside Myanmar seeking confirmation of the latest death sentences. The...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Friday, December 2 welcomed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) move to investigate the reported trafficking of Filipinos for a cryptocurrency scam in Myanmar. Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to investigate...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, November 28 said the Philippine government is now doubling all efforts to rescue some 31 more individuals who are said to be victims of human trafficking in Myanmar. Hontiveros, citing the testimony of “Rita” one of the human trafficking victims who was lured...
Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Secretary Susan Ople warned the public, especially those seeking jobs abroad, against online illegal recruitment scheme offering jobs for Filipinos to work in Myanmar and Thailand. This, after the government rescued 12 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were...
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 -- UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday urged the Myanmar junta to immediately return to democracy, saying it was the only way to stop the "unending nightmare" engulfing the country. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at a press conference during the...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday urged his fellow leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to assert their centrality and unite against challenges, including dynamic tensions, being faced by the regional bloc. In his intervention speeches at the...
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...
