Court unable to proceed via video conferencing after military regime cuts internet connectivity across Myanmar.
Beijing newspaper urges crackdown on anti-Chinese protesters and asks military regime to protect Chinese economic interests amidst rising anger towards China in Myanmar.
The death toll from Sunday, the bloodiest single day since the Feb. 1 coup, has risen to 71 as the regime steps up its violence.
A grim milestone is passed as Myanmar experiences the bloodiest day yet under the military junta that seized power from the democratically elected government.
The Chinese Embassy in Yangon urges Myanmar people to express their demands legally and not undermine the friendly cooperation between China and Myanmar.
Mahn Win Khaing Than warns the security forces and civil servants to show allegiance to the citizens not to the interests of “a group of people”.
Pathein Hospital medical superintendent Dr. Than Min Htut was seized after refusing to reopen the main regional hospital.
Can ASEAN’s ‘friend to all, enemy of none’ philosophy create meaningful dialogue about the Myanmar’s future?
Many are students in their late teens who have been shot in the head by the military junta’s security forces.
Three decades on, family and citizens remember two students whose shooting deaths at the hands of police put the country on a course that led to the 8888 uprising
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