Despite formulating a Five-Point Consensus in 2021, divisions within ASEAN continue to undermine its capacity to mount a unified approach to the crisis in Myanmar …
Critical Funding Shortfalls Cut Off Vital Food Aid in Myanmar
The World Food Programme announces over 1 million people in Myanmar will lose food assistance due to severe funding shortages. Ongoing conflict and recent foreign aid cuts, influenced by US policies, …
Food Crisis Looms: WFP Faces Funding Crisis in Myanmar
Over a million people in Myanmar risk losing food aid as the World Food Programme faces funding shortages. Conflict and displacement have increased food insecurity, affecting millions. With critical …
Funding cuts force WFP to stop food aid to one million in Myanmar
The World Food Programme will be forced to cut off one million people in war-torn Myanmar from its vital food aid because of “critical funding shortfalls”, it said on Friday.
They were forced to scam others worldwide. Now thousands are detained on the Myanmar border
An operation by Thai, Chinese and Myanmar authorities led to the release of more than 7,000 people from locked compounds in Myanmar where they were forced to trick Americans and others out of their …
War of words: Myanmar migrants face disinformation in Thailand
More than a million people have fled Myanmar’s brutal civil war to seek shelter and work in neighbouring Thailand, where experts say nationalists are using disinformation to fuel prejudice against …
International aid cuts may halve Rohingya food assistance in Bangladesh
If sufficient funds cannot be allocated for the Rohingya population who have taken refuge in Bangladesh from Myanmar, the World Food Programme (WFP) will be compelled to reduce food assistance from …
Footage of Myanmar ethnic group scuffle misrepresented as Bangladesh army infighting
Bangladesh has extended the power of commissioned army officials to enforce law and order amid the absence of police forces after the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s autocratic government on August 5, 2024.
Activist groups urge UN probe of its Myanmar envoy after report alleges ties to Chinese companies
Activist groups are calling for the United Nations to investigate its special envoy to Myanmar over possible conflicts of interest, after a report detailed her consulting company’s alleged ties to …
UN urged to probe Myanmar envoy Julie Bishop over alleged China firms ties
The United Nations is facing calls to investigate its special envoy on Myanmar, Julie Bishop, over alleged ties between her consulting firm and Chinese mining and construction companies with interests …