Surprisingly, President Joko Widodo went to the ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting at the ASEAN Secretariat in quest for the most reasonable answer for the political emergency hindering Myanmar as among the gathering’s key plan. He was welcomed by ASEAN Secretary General Dato Lim Jock Hoi. Subsequent to posturing for bunch photographs and marking the visitor book, President Jokowi, alongside other ASEAN …

Myanmar activists who are against the military junta are calling for the people to halt payments of their electricity bills and agricultural loans as well as to stop sending their children to schools as an act of revolt towards the pledge of the top general during the regional summit to end the post-coup crisis. Protests have been scattered in the …

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 …

Commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing along with his generals continues to hurt and murder people and the world seems to be only observing. Although Myanmar is a member of the ASEAN, the organization does not seem to be attempting to end the mass murder in Myanmar. Whatever reason there may be, the people of the country is being failed by the …

KUALA LUMPUR: According to Reuters, Malaysia decided on Wednesday (Mar 24) to postpone scheduled deportations to Myanmar until after a proposed emergency regional summit to discuss the crisis in Myanmar caused by a military coup. When Malaysia sent back 1,086 Myanmar nationals on Myanmar navy ships last month, just weeks after the military seized power in a Feb 1 coup, …

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states are struggling to effectively resolve the crisis in Myanmar that has been unfolding since the February 1 coup, according to a group of lawmakers from six regional countries. “While the brave pro-democracy protesters of Myanmar are being killed by the military junta, all other ASEAN governments are demonstrating a lack of …

Activists said on Tuesday that hundreds of young Myanmar demonstrators who had been trapped by security forces in a Yangon district overnight had been able to escape, following demands from western powers and the United Nations for them to be allowed to leave. Myanmar has been thrown into turmoil following the army’s occupation and arrest of elected leader Aung San …

A month after the military seized power in Myanmar in a coup, the Philippines requested the immediate release of imprisoned civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a complete return to the previous state of affairs. In a statement read aloud at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ informal virtual meeting on Tuesday, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. acknowledged …

Southeast Asian foreign ministers are preparing for a special meeting with Myanmar’s ruling military on Tuesday in the hopes of quelling deadly violence and opening a channel to resolve the country’s worsening political crisis. The talks will take place two days after Myanmar’s bloodiest day of unrest since the military deposed Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government a month ago, …