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YANGON, Myanmar — Russia backs the Myanmar junta’s efforts to “stabilise” the crisis-wracked country and hold elections next year, its foreign minister said in talks with top generals on Wednesday, according to Russian state media.

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s junta chief has won approval to extend a state of emergency for six more months, state media reported on Monday.

The Philippines has joined the Association of Southeast Nation’s (ASEAN) position in condemning the execution of four opposition activists in Myanmar.

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.

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.

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.

YANGON, Myanmar — A Myanmar junta court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi against a five-year sentence for corruption handed down last week, a junta spokesman told AFP.

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.

BANGKOK, Thailand — Myanmar’s junta has revoked the citizenship of several members of an opposition government dominated by Aung San Suu Kyi’s toppled administration, it said Saturday.

Filipinos in Myanmar are advised to refrain from participating in the ongoing protests for their own safety, an envoy said Wednesday.