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Ukraine crisis eclipses Myanmar in world's capacity for attention

One year has passed since Myanmar's National Unity Government (NUG) declared a "defensive war" in its armed struggle against the military junta that had staged a coup. The NUG is a government in exile formed by those who are against the military junta. The two sides remain in a state…

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Russia’s war in Ukraine challenges old comrades in Southeast Asia

Vladimir Putin’s absence from the G20 Summit in Bali also undermines talk of a Russian pivot to the Asia-Pacific region.

Al Jazeera

Southeast Asia leaders struggle with Myanmar crisis at summit

ASEAN leaders blocked Myanmar’s military ruler, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, from attending the meeting in Cambodia.

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Asean inaction on Myanmar decried

A human rights group has urged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to reject a proposal that effectively allows the Myanmar military junta to continue participating in all but a handful of events held by the 10-country bloc.

Bangkok Post

China, Russia, India enabling Myanmar’s military rule: Report

Group of international legislators call on world to move beyond ASEAN’s ‘failed’ peace plan and recognise Mynamar’s NUG.

Al Jazeera

Asean plans emergency talks on Myanmar

Southeast Asian foreign ministers will hold emergency talks in Jakarta next week to discuss strife-torn Myanmar ahead of the Asean leaders’ summit in Phnom Penh in November, diplomatic sources confirmed on Friday.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar crisis will vex Asean meet

The 2022 Asean summit in Cambodia on Nov 10–13 is approaching. Because the crisis in Myanmar goes to the heart of questions about Asean's role in the region, this will no doubt be one of the more problematic issues on the leaders' agenda.

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Time for Myanmar to face the music

Since its inception in 1967, Asean has survived a myriad of challenges -- some it has passed with flying colours, others less so.

Bangkok Post

US sanctions Myanmar businessmen over alleged Russian arms deals

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says sanctions take aim at Russia and Belarus’ support for Myanmar military.

Al Jazeera

Wife of Australian economist imprisoned in Myanmar says family is heartbroken by three-year sentence

Ha Vu pleads for Prof Sean Turnell’s release after secret trial which Australian diplomats and journalists were banned from

The Guardian - AU

UN told Myanmar has gone from ‘bad to worse to horrific’

Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews says Myanmar people are frustrated with an international community they feel has failed.

Al Jazeera

A false new world of empty promises

The setting is a house on stilts located in a Myanmar military base in the middle of what until then had been known as the civil war's black area. The time was April 2012. The scene was Kyauk Kyi in Myanmar's Bago Region which is basically a free-fire zone for…

Bangkok Post

Myanmar discussing with Russia use of Mir card for payments

Myanmar is discussing with burgeoning ally Russia the use of its Mir bank card for payments, the junta spokesperson said on Tuesday, as the military-ruled country reels from a currency crisis and the impact of Western sanctions.

Reuters

Who represents Myanmar? UN faces credentials pressure at assembly

Impasse over country’s representation at global body is hampering efforts to end the crisis caused by the 2021 coup.

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‘A leader of the world’: south-east Asian countries open to Putin pivot

Only Singapore has imposed sanctions, while others have been receptive to Moscow’s offers of friendship

Daily Mirror

Warmonger Vladimir Putin hailed as 'true leader of world' in cringe speech by dictator

Myanmar's dictator General Min Aung Hlaing covered his ally Vladimir Putin with praise and called him the "leader of the world". Both leaders have been condemned through the world, but the general said he was "proud" of

The Times of India

Defiant Vladimir Putin says his war in Ukraine will strengthen Russia

VLADIVISTOK: President Vladimir Putin said Russia will emerge stronger from his invasion of Ukraine as he lashed out at US and European “sanctions fever” in response to the war.

AFP

Eyeing Asia pivot, Putin says 'impossible' to isolate Russia

Moscow (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday it was "impossible" to isolate Russia and hailed Asia's growing global influence, as Moscow looks east in the face of unprecedented Western sanctions over Ukraine.

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Myanmar conflict under control, junta chief says

The crisis in Myanmar is under control and the ruling military will do all in its power to hold elections next year as planned, providing the vote can be free from foreign interference, its leader said.

Bangkok Post

Putin meets Myanmar junta chief, hails 'positive' ties

Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed "positive" ties with Myanmar on Wednesday as he met with the country's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok.

Al Jazeera

Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing meets Putin for first time since coup

Meeting between leaders would underlines the two nations deepening relationship after Myanmar coup and Ukraine invasion.

Reuters

U.N. envoy sets Suu Kyi meeting as a condition for visiting Myanmar again

A senior U.N. official who made a rare trip to hold talks with Myanmar's military rulers last month said on Monday she would visit the Southeast Asian country again only if she were allowed to meet ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Reuters

Myanmar junta chief makes another visit to Russia

Myanmar's junta leader was on a visit to Russia on Monday, his second trip there in less than two months, as Myanmar's ruling military tries to shore up one of its few diplomatic alliances as it comes under growing international pressure.

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UN Myanmar envoy ‘very concerned’ about Aung San Suu Kyi’s health

Noeleen Heyzer says she will not make a second visit to the country unless she can see the deposed leader.

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‘Friendly ties’: Myanmar’s top general to visit Russia

Military leader Min Aung Hlaing will hold talks with Russian officials to ‘further cement cooperation’.

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