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India's External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar met his Myanmar counterpart Than Swe on Sunday and discussed initiatives that can be taken in order to enhance the connectivity between the two countries. Their discussions centred around the India-Myanmar-Thailand trilateral highway, further underlining the importance of ensuring peace and stability in the border areas. Jaishankar, who had arrived in Bangkok from Indonesia on Saturday, also met Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Ministe...

The United Nations Special envoy of the Secretary General on Myanmar Ms Noeleen Heyzer on Thursday offered her assessment of the Myanmar crisis and the way forward to the UN General Assembly.

The regional bloc’s plan to “converge” its 5-Point Consensus with the junta’s election roadmap will only compound the total failure of its approach to the crisis so far.

Every dictatorship and military junta ends up with its own international supporters. They do its dirty work in ways they believe they can justify. These are the countries that supply them with weapons or hydrocarbons, the firms that exploit government-induced poverty in order to take advantage of cheap labor and the international organizations that decide that — tyranny aside

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.

While some officials stress the importance of keeping communication open with the junta, others are cautious of the implications.

SINGAPORE (Kyodo) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sens meeting with Myanmars junta chief on Friday and their joint statement issued after that may c