Two killed in Mandalay city in bloodiest day of Myanmar protests
Reuters Two people were killed in Myanmar’s second city Mandalay on Saturday when police and soldiers fired to disperse protests against a 1st February military coup, emergency workers said, the bloodiest day in more than two weeks of demonstrations. Protesters took to the streets in cities and towns across Myanmar with members of ethnic minorities, […]
Myanmar coup protesters mass again, reject army’s claim it has public support
Reuters Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Myanmar on Wednesday, rejecting the army’s assertion that the public supported its overthrow of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and vowing they would not be cowed in their bid to end military rule. Opponents of the 1st February military coup are deeply sceptical of junta assurances, […]
Three wounded as hundreds of thousands of protesters defy Myanmar junta
Reuters Supporters of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi clashed with police on Friday as hundreds of thousands joined nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations in defiance of the junta’s call to halt mass gatherings. The United Nations human rights office said more than 350 people, including officials, activists and monks, have been arrested in Myanmar since […]
Tens of thousands protest Myanmar coup despite internet ban
Reuters Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Myanmar’s cities on Saturday to denounce this week’s coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi despite a blockade on the internet by the junta. In an upwelling of anger in the country’s largest city, Yangon, protesters chanted, “Military dictator, […]
Updated: UN Security Council calls for release of Myanmar’s Suu Kyi; Biden tells generals to go
Updated: 11.30am (AEDT)Reuters The United Nations Security Council called for the release of Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others detained by the military and stressed the need to uphold democracy, but stopped short of condemning this week’s coup. In the United States, the din of voices weighing in to warn the generals to […]
Noisy anti-coup protest reverberates in Myanmar’s largest city
Reuters The din of banging pots and honking car horns reverberated through Myanmar’s biggest city of Yangon late on Tuesday in the first widespread protest against the military coup that overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The party of the detained Nobel Peace laureate called for her release by the junta that seized power […]
Yangon migrants’ cramped lives on show at Bangkok art festival
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Photographs of migrant workers living in tiny, dark spaces in Myanmar’s largest city Yangon – on display at a glitzy Bangkok gallery – highlight the sharp contrasts that exist in Asia’s cities, the show’s artistic director said last week. Titled Below Three Feet, Myanmar photographer Kaung Swan Thar’s images are showcased […]
Canadian pastor guilty of defying Myanmar’s coronavirus law
Yangon, MyanmarAP A court in Myanmar on Thursday sentenced the Canadian pastor of an evangelical church to three months imprisonment after finding him guilty of violating a law intended to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Myanmar-born David Lah was charged with flouting a ban on large gatherings by holding a religious meeting in Yangon […]
Myanmar to court-martial more troops over Rohingya crackdown, army says
Yangon, MyanmarReuters Myanmar’s army said in a statement on Friday it would hold more court-martials over alleged abuses against Rohingya Muslims, after a government-appointed commission said soldiers committed war crimes against the minority. The panel concluded, in a report published in January, that members of the security forces, among “multiple actors”, were responsible for war […]
WOW!: BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE CITY IN MYANMAR, ONE TRASH ALLEY AT A TIME
THIN LEI WIN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how social enterprise Doh Eain is helping to make Yangon in Myanmar a more liveable place…