ASEAN – Families of arrested Myanmar protestors were disappointed to learn that political detainees were not among the 1,600 persons freed by the military junta to celebrate the Buddhist new year. The Southeast Asian country has been in upheaval since Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratic administration was deposed by a military coup last year, sparking massive demonstrations and a bloody crackdown. …

Myanmar – According to a Cambodian foreign ministry official, a Southeast Asian special envoy will visit Myanmar from March 20 to 23, in an attempt to start a peace process in a nation ravaged by turmoil since a coup a year ago. Last month, Cambodia’s foreign minister, Prak Sokhonn, requested Myanmar’s governing generals to allow him to speak with all …

Cambodia – On Friday, Cambodian PM Hun Sen was greeted with a red carpet and an honour guard in Myanmar, while coup opponents protested elsewhere in the nation, fearing his visit would legitimize the junta. Meeting with Myanmar’s military rulers was the first by a head of state since the army deposed Aung San Suu Kyi‘s civilian government on Feb. …

Philippines – Official representative Harry Roque was attacked by activists who held a convention at a New York eatery to discredit his assignment to the International Law Commission (ILC), a body that prescribes strategies to the United Nations. Individuals from Bayan-USA and activists from New York and New Jersey marched to the Aretsky’s Patroon eatery in Manhattan last Friday to …

Thailand – The Internet Law Reform Dialog (iLaw) bunch has requested of the Civil Court looking to cancel what it said was the implementation of the crisis pronouncement to reduce individuals’ privileges to articulation. The request was stopped against Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and related specialists over the issuance of the announcement. Applicants – iLaw chief Yingcheep Atchanond, women’s activist …

Two Afghan journalists were left with unsightly welts and bruises after being assaulted and held for hours by Taliban militants in the Afghan capital for reporting a protest. The two were arrested at a rally and brought to a capital police station, where they claim they were assaulted and abused with batons, electrical wires, and whips after being suspected of …

The Chulabhorn Royal Academy (CRA) boss has offered an expression of remorse subsequent to protesting an arrangement to furnish cutting edge medical services laborers with a third promoter shot of the Covid-19 immunization while the majority of the populace presently can’t seem to get any shot. Secretary-general Nithi Mahanonda said that he didn’t intend to outrage anybody when he asked …

Myanmar protesters have burned mock coffins and pictures of the junta leader Min Aung Hlaing today in the latest demonstrations against the junta’s seizing power in February which led the Southeast Asian country into disorder. Messages on funeral wreaths such as “May you not rest in peace” and “may your birthday and death day be the same,” were spotted in …

Police are gathering proof to make a legitimate move against fight pioneers and members who turned up at city rallies on infringing upon the crisis order, says the appointee Royal Thai police representative. In view of this, Pol Col Kissana Phathanacharoen said the dissenters likewise abused a wellbeing security declaration gave by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. Bangkok has been assigned …

State media said five people, including an ousted official had been killed in a bombing in Myanmar this week. Since the Feb 1 coup, there have been growing number of small-scale bomb explosions in cities and towns where government offices and military facilities are located. There is still no update as to what group is responsible for the said bombing …