GLASGOW, Nov 2 US President Joseph Biden and Indonesian President Joko Widodo called yesterday on the Myanmar military junta to release political prisoners, the White House said. Meeting on the sidelines of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Biden and Widodo also highlighted “freedom of the.
Five people jumped from an apartment building in Myanmar's main city of Yangon, killing at least two of them, in a bid to escape a raid by security forces, media reports said, sparking condemnation among opponents of military rule.
The military overthrew the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in Februa
Read more about Protestors demonstrate at G7 summit to save Myanmar s democracy on Business Standard. Several hundred Myanmar residents in Britain gathered at the site of the Group of Seven summit in Cornwall, calling for action to save democracy in Myanmar on Saturday
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) presented a list of nominations for the post of Myanmar s special envoy in the organisation to Tatmadaw (Myanmar military). ASEAN s Secretariat said the Chairman of its Foreign Ministers meeting Erywan bin Pehin Yusof and the bloc s Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi visited Myanmar and met the country s senior officials late last week, including the military chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, reported NHK World. The Secretariat said they discussed the appointment and role of the ASEAN chair s special envoy to Myanmar, and presented the list of nominees proposed by the bloc s member countries for the position.