Myanmar – An American journalist who has been held by Myanmar’s junta for months has been refused bail and is facing a third criminal accusation, his lawyer said to AFP on Thursday. Danny Fenster, the managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, was detained in May while attempting to flee the country. He is presently on trial on charges of promoting dissent against …

ASEAN – The UN said yesterday it feared an even greater human rights catastrophe in Myanmar amid reports of thousands of troops massing in the north of the Southeast Asian country, which has been in chaos since a February coup. “We should all be prepared, as the people in this part of Myanmar are prepared, for even more mass atrocity …

Myanmar’s government has denied cutting internet access in conflict-torn areas, putting responsibility of recent data outages on anti-coup protestors for damaging military-owned communications towers. The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s administration in February, sparking massive anti-government demonstrations that security forces have attempted to suppress via deadly crackdowns. To fight back, …

Myanmar’s junta will put ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on trial for corruption, her lawyer said today, adding to a raft of ongoing cases that could see her jailed for decades. Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since she and her elected government were deposed by the military in a February coup that sparked a mass uprising and …

ASEAN’s heads of government met in an informal summit in Jakarta, which as time has passed by so quickly – it has been a month since then – to discuss their collective response to the February coup in Myanmar. What an achievement it has been that, despite the presence of the coup leader Min Aung Hlaing, the group was able …

Three columnists and two activists from Myanmar have been captured in Chiang Mai for unlawful section and face conceivable removal. It was shared that there were captured recently and it spoke to Thai specialists not to expel them to Myanmar, where the news association has been restricted by the junta. They even highlighted that their life will be in genuine …

Myanmar junta leader is set to join the upcoming ASEAN summit this April 24 that will be held in Indonesia which is going to be his first foreign trip since the coup started on February 1. The coup has left Myanmar in turmoil and has caused the death of about 728 people in the security forces’ efforts to stop protests …

It has been 56 days since internet has been shut down in Myanmar, as said by a monitoring group. But even in the middle of this internet outage and information suppression, the youths of Myanmar continue to fight through disseminating underground newsletter in secret across the community. Myanmar has been in commotion ever since the coup in order to take …