The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

Thailand’s top diplomat says he met ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in detention over the weekend and she conveyed her openness to engage in talks to resolve the crisis in her strife-torn nation

Ten persons from Myanmar, currently admitted to a hospital in Churachandpur district of Manipur with bullet injuries, were intercepted by the Assam Rifles at the border and allowed to enter the State as it was a case of a medical emergency, according to multiple government officials.

Indonesia’s top diplomat is warning of the threat posed by nuclear weapons, saying that Southeast Asia is “one miscalculation away from apocalypse” and pressing for world powers to sign a treaty to keep the region free from such arms

Justice for Myanmar urges France President Emmanuel Macron to press PM Modi during his July visit to Paris to adhere to international norms and prevent the military junta from accessing sophisticated defence technology.

JAKARTA: Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) met in Indonesia Tuesday, with Myanmar's deadlocked political crisis expected to dominate discussions.

Days before ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, the Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla had asked the State governments of Manipur and Mizoram to capture the “biographic and biometric details of illegal migrants”. This biometric information is to include retina, iris, and fingerprints. 

Myanmar’s prolonged civil strife, tensions in the disputed South China Sea and concern over arms buildups in the region are expected to dominate the agenda when Southeast Asia’s top diplomats gather for talks this week in Indonesia

More than 100 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in ongoing violence that risks cleaving the state in two

Thailand's deportation of stateless children to war-torn Myanmar is reprehensible, unlawful and blatantly against international law. This egregious operation must stop without delay.

While Thailand eagerly awaits the formation of a new government to usher in change, a crisis on its western borders is driving war refugees to seek safety on Thai soil. They, too, are in desperate need of guidance from the next government, humanitarian aid, and effective intervention to stop the…

A headline which caught my eye in last Sunday's Post was "Highway 12 to economic heaven" with a report concerning the rich potential of this route which stretches west to east from Tak on the Myanmar border to Mukdahan, just this side of the Mekong River from Laos.