Category : Myanmar

Parties meet to help Min Aung Hlaing realize presidency dream The military’s proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) met with 37 other political parties that attended the junta-organized Independence Day parade in Naypyitaw on Wednesday. The informal meeting followed junta chief Min Aung Hlaing’s announcement that his regime is determined to hold a so-called […]Read More

Indonesia, the incoming chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), says other countries including India must get behind the bloc’s peace effort for Myanmar, which has been engulfed by violence since a coup last year. Retno Marsudi, Indonesia’s foreign minister, urged other regional powers to support ASEAN’s “five-point consensus” for peace, which includes […]Read More

India’s foreign secretary paid a call on Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing earlier this week in Naypyitaw and discussed the potential for comprehensive bilateral cooperation, even as many foreign governments continue to impose sanctions against the regime. Vinay Mohan Kwatra’s November 21 visit was the first to Myanmar by a high-ranking Indian government official […]Read More

Newly released Australian economist Sean Turnell has said it was a tragedy for Myanmar’s people to be ruled by the military junta, whom he called “knaves and fools”. Turnell, who was released in the regime’s mass amnesty on Thursday along with four other foreigners, had been locked up since the coup in February last year, […]Read More