Tag: Myanmar
High Court orders South Africa to suspend arms exports to Myanmar
The Gauteng Division of the High Court in Pretoria has set aside permits that were granted by the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC)...
Singapore anti-drone firm cuts Myanmar ties after coup
A Singaporean firm that has sold anti-drone products to Myanmar’s police is halting further business in the country and has canceled a deal with...
Facebook faces a reckoning in Myanmar after blocked by military
The Myanmar military’s shutdown of Facebook access following the ouster of the democratically elected Aung San Suu Kyi caps years of tension between the...
Myanmar military seizes power, detains elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar’s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained...
Facebook removes ‘inauthentic’ networks spanning 8 nations
Facebook on Friday said it has dismantled seven separate networks of fake accounts and pages on its platform that were active in Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt,...
Gambia files genocide case against Myanmar
Gambia filed a case at the United Nations’ top court accusing Myanmar of genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority, Gambian Justice Minister Abubacarr Tambadou...
Egypt’s Hasm militants attack Myanmar embassy
Egyptian militant group Hasm claimed responsibility for a small explosion at Myanmar's embassy in Cairo, saying it was in retaliation for that...
Australia to ease sanctions on reforming Myanmar
Australia will ease restrictions on military engagement with Myanmar following democratic reforms since the country's ruling generals relinquished their half-century grip on...
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi praises U.S. engagement
Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi welcomed renewed U.S. engagement with Myanmar, saying she hoped it would set her long-isolated country on...
Summer of change in Southeast Asia, but no Arab Spring
Myanmar's cautious relaxation of strict government control has grabbed the spotlight in recent weeks, but it's only the latest act in a...
UN sleuth tells Myanmar to free political prisoners
The United Nations human rights investigator for Myanmar said he had urged the country's military government to free what he called "large...
