SOMETIME in October, the Paris-based global watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is expected to decide whether to put Myanmar on its blacklist, a move that would put the South-east Asian nation …
H&M, Zara’s Owner Stick With ‘Made In Myanmar’ After Coup, but Some Brands Exit
Western retailers are increasingly divided over whether to buy clothes made in Myanmar, where some say labor abuses have worsened under military rule.
NUG Raises Over US$9 Million Selling Land Illegally Seized by Myanmar Military
The new fundraising scheme in Mandalay follows the success of a similar project launched in Yangon last month.
AFP photo falsely shared as ‘Bangladesh response to cross-border shelling from Myanmar’
After a Rohingya man was killed when mortar shells fired from Myanmar landed across the border in Bangladesh, a photo surfaced in Facebook posts claiming it showed Bangladeshi forces hunting down …
At a tea shop for Myanmar exiles, rebels at the counter, revolution in the air
At a newly opened tea shop named “Freedom,” the tea is brewed strong, then stirred with evaporated and condensed milk by a revolutionary on the lam. Food is cooked over a gas stove by a 53-year-old …
Firing inside Myanmar again rocks locals in Bangladesh’s Reju Amtali
The firing on the Myanmar side of the Bangladesh-Myanmar border started again Monday a week after it had stopped – the latest in the series of violent incidents in the area.Firing resumed on the …
Meta’s Toxic Algorithm ‘Substantially Contributed’ to Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar: Amnesty International
A new report from Amnesty International this week dives deeply into the Facebook-fueled atrocities perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslim minority by Myanmar security forces. Beginning in 2017 …
Myanmar military threatens jail for online ‘likes’ for opponents
Myanmar’s military spokesman General Zaw Min Tun attends a news conference ahead of the start of a new parliament term and the formation of the new government in Naypyitaw, Myanmar January …
OPINION – 6 reasons US is not really supporting Myanmar’s democratic resistance
There will be no free, democratic, or inclusive Myanmar as long as its criminal military regime remains in power – Anadolu Agency …
Special Report: Family Reveals Plight of U.S. Political Prisoner in Myanmar
A botanist from California has been held for over a year in captivity. His family is begging the Biden administration for answers and help …