By Carolyn Cowan Vast quantities of timber from Myanmar continue to enter the United States despite sanctions on the country’s state-controlled timber monopoly, according to a new report from U.K.-based watchdog group the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).
Massacre in Myanmar’s Kalay Jail
Since its coup in February 2021, Myanmar’s military has massacred hundreds of innocent civilians. One such mass killing happened in Kalay jail in Sagaing Region on March 15 of last year, when prison guards shot dead inmates in cold blood. Among the …
US Policy on Myanmar and Taiwan: Shifting Strategies to Counter China’s Influence
Washington needs to recognize that the situation in both places is part of a single, interconnected struggle to contain Chinese influence.
Rights Group Demands Sanction for Myanmar Energy Minster’s Family
Justice For Myanmar has called for sanctions on Myo Myint Oo’s family business as it profits from energy companies operating in Myanmar.
Concern rising in Myanmar that supplies needed for recovery from Cyclone Mocha are coming too slowly
BANGKOK (AP) — As residents of Myanmar’s Rakhine and Chin states worked Monday to repair the devastation from last week’s Cyclone Mocha, concern is rising about whether the urgent needs for shelter, …
HRW Calls for Halt to Rohingya Repatriation From Bangladesh to Myanmar
Rights group warns conditions in Myanmar’s state of Rakhine are still not favorable for sustainable repatriation of Rohingya refugees …
FM urges countries investing huge in Myanmar to come forward to end Rohingya crisis
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Saturday urged the big countries which are heavily investing in Myanmar, to come forward for a sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis for their own interests …
WFP ‘working around the clock’ to help in Myanmar
STORY: “The World Food Programme has already started rapid food distributions to populations in extreme need in Rakhine and in Magwe and is going to be expanding further in the coming days,” said WFP …
Myanmar media guide
By the end of 2022, Myanmar had the third-highest number of imprisoned journalists in the world, after Iran and China, says the Committee to Protect Journalists. The state media “are just propaganda outlets that receive scant attention from the population”,
UN expert says Myanmar imported $1 billion in arms since coup, much of it from Russia and China
Myanmar’s ruling military junta has imported at least $1 billion in weapons and military-related equipment since its bloody coup, according to a new United Nations report which said much of the equipment was coming from individuals and businesses in Russia,