News Myanmar Government: Dashed Hopes for Myanmar’s Women
The process of unprecedented reforms and democratization in Myanmar, along with international ... in the union-level cabinet of the new NLD-led government formed in March 2016 was Suu Kyi. ...
News Myanmar Government: Myanmar Says U.N. Calls for Sanctions, Arms Embargo a Bid to Harm Country
Myanmar's foreign ministry on Tuesday denounced a United Nations report that urged world leaders to cut ties with military-linked companies and impose an arms embargo over the Rohingya crisis, saying it was intended to harm the country.
News Myanmar Government: The world should hit Myanmar’s military where it hurts — in the wallet
Violence against the Kachin and other ethnic groups in Myanmar’s north has intensified since Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy government came into power in 2016. And new fighting with ...
News Myanmar Government: UN study finds businesses fund Myanmar army abuses
Myanmar’s government has denied abuses and said its actions were justified in response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents. The mission, which also investigated human rights violations against ethnic ...
News Myanmar Government: Credit Where Credit Is Due: The U.S. Government Demonstrates Human Rights Leadership On Myanmar
This week, the U.S. imposed historic sanctions on Myanmar’s top military leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, and three other senior generals. The Trump administration has mostly moved backward on human rights, but the Myanmar sanctions deserve praise.
News Myanmar Government: Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters reporters freed from prison in Myanmar
Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, also has a young daughter. Their wives had repeatedly appealed to the Myanmar government to pardon their husbands. The two journalists have become a symbol of Myanmar’s fading ...
News Myanmar Government: Myanmar Freed Two Journalists. That’s Not the End of the Story.
Still, it just may be that the release of the two reporters does herald a new approach by the government. Until that is somehow confirmed, however, the pressure on Myanmar — and on Ms. Aung San Suu ...
News Myanmar Government: Two Reuters reporters freed in Myanmar after more than 500 days in jail
(reut.rs/2KFTSgQ) (reut.rs/2M5benE) Calls to a spokesman for the Myanmar government were not immediately answered. Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen J. Adler welcomed the news. “We are enormously ...
