Sixteen NLD lawmakers have died in junta custody or evading arrest since Myanmar coup
Last June, junta security personnel arrested a Kyaw Mo Myin, a lawmaker for the deposed National League for Democracy in central Myanmar’s Mon state, along...
Month : May 2023
Tibetan monk released from prison in poor health after serving two-year sentence
A Tibetan Buddhist monk serving a jail sentence for “sending money for prayer offerings” to the Dalai Lama and to the abbot of his monastery...
Myanmar junta arrests rapper who made online complaints about power shortages
Myanmar’s junta on Wednesday arrested a hip-hop artist for a video published on social media in which he complained about electricity shortages and said that...
Court in Myanmar’s Mandalay imprisons 3 monks for funding terrorism
A court in Myanmar’s central Mandalay region has handed down 22-year sentences to three Buddhist monks accused of supporting anti-junta People’s Defense forces, a local...
US House panel urges further action Uyghur forced labor
The U.S. Congress should remove a loophole allowing apparel websites to sell clothes in the United States made by Uyghur slaves and create a list...
Myanmar’s junta increasingly relying on airstrikes, research group says
Myanmar’s junta is increasingly relying on airstrikes in its war against groups opposed to its rule, according to tallies compiled by Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica,...
Hong Kong leader slams Cathay Pacific over treatment of mainland Chinese passengers
Hong Kong leader John Lee on Wednesday called on the city’s flagship Cathay Pacific airline to “retrain” staff after they were reported for alleged discrimination...
Myanmar troops raid Chin state hospital, arresting doctor and nurses
Junta troops have raided a hospital in Myanmar’s northwestern Chin state, arresting a doctor and four nurses, according to a local resident. The local identified...
Bangkok’s ‘Hazibition’ points finger at corporations for toxic haze in lower Mekong
Thailand’s clean air campaigners are staging an exhibition in Bangkok to show how industrial-scale maize cultivation to produce animal feed is partly responsible for the...
Rights attorney Yu Wensheng, wife Xu Yan ‘could be at risk of torture’ after arrest
Chinese authorities have notified the family of veteran rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan of their formal arrest on suspicion of “picking...
