Twitter and Instagram have become the latest social media sites to be blocked for users in Myanmar following Monday’s coup by the military. Telenor, one of the country’s main internet providers, …
Myanmar minorities fear renewed violence after military coup
The Myanmar military’s coup on Monday sent shockwaves across the country, bringing back memories of half a century of crushing isolation under direct military rule. Perhaps nowhere was the fear more …
Facebook faces a reckoning in Myanmar after being blocked by military
The junta on Wednesday banned Facebook until at least Sunday after the regime’s opponents began using it to organize.
‘We’re not brainwashed’: a week of turmoil in Myanmar
Protests have spread across country since military coup, as citizens resist return to dictatorship …
In Call With Deputy Myanmar Military Chief, U.N. Envoy Condemns Coup
U.N. Myanmar envoy Christine Schraner Burgener spoke with the country’s deputy military chief Soe Win overnight, strongly condemning the military’s actions and calling for the immediate release of all …
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Generals, and How Myanmar’s Democracy Hopes Collapsed
The military coup this week represented the failure of an arrangement in which the country’s democratic opening depended on the ability of Myanmar’s civilian leader and its military to share power.
‘We have no one on our side’: from Thailand to Singapore, Myanmar nationals react to coup with shock and sadness
The military coup in Myanmar came as a shock to Sai Purng, a 36-year-old from Myanmar’s Shan State who works at the Human Rights and Development Foundation in the northern Thai city of Chiang …
Blinken to discuss COVID-19, Iran, Russia, China, Myanmar with Europeans
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will discuss Iran and other issues including Russia, China and Myanmar in a Friday online meeting with his British, French and German counterparts, a U.S.
Indonesia, Malaysia urge ASEAN to hold talks on Myanmar coup
The leaders of Malaysia and Indonesia expressed concern Friday about Myanmar’s military coup and asked the foreign ministers of Southeast Asia countries to hold a …
Military coup yet another blow for Myanmar’s sagging economy
The military coup in Myanmar is unlikely to do the country’s struggling economy, once considered a promising “last frontier,” any good at all. Myanmar’s economy has languished …