Myanmar activists deride ASEAN-junta consensus, vow to continue protests
Reuters Myanmar’s pro-democracy activists sharply criticised an agreement between the country’s junta chief and South-East Asian leaders to end a violent post-coup crisis and vowed on Sunday to continue protesting. Some scattered protests took place in Myanmar’s big cities on Sunday, a day after the meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) with […]
ASEAN calls summit on Myanmar crisis as EU imposes sanctions
Reuters South-East Asian countries will discuss the crisis in Myanmar at a summit in Jakarta on Saturday, the ASEAN bloc’s secretariat said on Tuesday, after the European Union imposed its toughest sanctions yet on the junta that seized power there on 1st February. The 10-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been trying to […]