Envoys from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) arrived in Myanmar Thursday for talks with junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, as the coup-stricken nation enters its fifth month of crippling unrest.Myanmar has been in chaos and its economy paralysed since the February coup, with more than 800 people killed in a brutal military crackdown on dissent, according to a local monitoring group.Erywan Pehin Yusof, Brunei's second minister for foreign affairs, and ASEAN Secretary-General

Conflict has raged for decades in Myanmar’s borderlands, where myriad ethnic armed groups are fighting with the military for greater autonomy. Since February’s coup, however, dozens of new, grassroots people’s defence forces have emerged to oppose the junta, with battles occurring in areas of the country that were previously peaceful.“The people of Myanmar have been left with no other choice.

A shadow government in Myanmar seeking to reverse the 1 February coup has joined forces with a rebel group to "demolish" junta rule, it said Saturday.Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) government and launched a brutal crackdown on dissent.

Myanmar's junta chief has said deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in good health and will appear in court within days during the general's first television interview since the coup.Min Aung Hlaing, who toppled Suu Kyi in a 1 February putsch, gave a two-hour interview to Hong Kong's Phoenix Television on Thursday, with the full programme yet to air."Aung San Suu Kyi is in good health.

Six opposition rebels have been killed after days of clashes in Myanmar, an anti-junta defence force made up of civilians said Sunday, as Britain and the United States (US) condemned the military's violence against civilians.Myanmar has been in uproar since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a 1 February coup, triggering a massive uprising which authorities have sought to quell with lethal force. Pope Francis on Sunday called for an end to the bloodshed and

Beaten, kicked in the groin and threatened with sexual violence – a young Myanmar teenager detained by the junta's security forces has described the treatment suffered by some women and girls behind bars.Ma Chaw, 17, and her mother were arrested on 14 April in Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capital, which has been blanketed with heavy security since the military seized power in a coup.As they were walking to a friend's house from a morning protest, she said, they were stopped by

As Myanmar’s national COVID-19 response collapses following a 1 February military coup, one ethnic armed organisation in the country’s north has quietly vaccinated 20,000 people in areas it governs, with support from across the border in China.The vaccines, produced by the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech, were supplied and administered with assistance from the Red Cross Society of China, a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The Kachin Inde

A judge on Monday ordered Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to appear in person in court for the first time on 24 May, her lawyer said, after weeks of delays in her case.The Nobel laureate has not been seen in public since she was detained in a 1 February coup, when the military ousted her from power and re-installed its rule.She was subsequently hit with a series of charges, and her legal team has faced an uphill battle to get a private audience with their client.Multiple court

100 days after the military seized power in Myanmar, the nun who pleaded for protesters on her knees in the street says the coup has cast a pall of fear and depression over the country.The image of Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng kneeling in the dust, arms spread, begging police not to shoot "the children" went viral in March as an uprising swelled in Myanmar.Today, the 45-year-old nun works in a clinic in Myanmar's northernmost Kachin state, tending to patients injured by security fo

Myanmar's junta declared Saturday night that a group of ousted lawmakers running a shadow government would now be classified as "terrorists", as the military moves to tighten its grip over a country in turmoil. Since the military seized power in a 1 February coup, detaining and ousting civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a nationwide uprising has refused to back down in its demands for a return to democracy.Protesters continue to take to the streets daily, while a nation