An international human rights group condemned Myanmar's junta Saturday for sentencing 19 people to die, in the first known use of the death penalty since the military seized power.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi was ousted on February 1, with security forces killing more than 600 people as protesters refuse to submit to military rule.
Up until recently, one of Chaw Kalyar's tasks at the Myanmar embassy in Berlin consisted of providing assistance to fellow nationals stripped of their citizenship by their country's former military rulers.
But today, the diplomat finds herself facing the same predicament.
India protested a US Navy warship conducting a patrol in its waters without prior consent, in a manoeuvre Washington defended as an "innocent passage" consistent with international law.
The US Navy said earlier this week that the USS John Paul Jones had asserted "navigational rights and freedoms" in the vicinity of Lakshadweep Islands inside India's exclusive economic zone.
Cambodia's strongman premier Hun Sen threatened quarantine-breakers with jail time Saturday and warned civil servants they could lose their jobs if they go unvaccinated, as the country grapples with a growing coronavirus caseload.
In the past two days Cambodia has registered more than 1,000 infections -- many among garment workers and market vendors -- bringing the country's tally to 4,081 cases and 26 deaths.
The Australian Embassy in Myanmar joined 11 other embassies this week signing a heartfelt statement in support of those on the streets and putting their lives on the line for democracy and freedom.
This is the second statement released by the twelve embassies in Myanmar. Their 12 February statement was conventionally directed state-to-state calling on the military junta ‘to refrain from violence against demonstrators and civilians, who are protesting the overthrow of their legitimate government.’
Despite meaningful efforts by China to stem illegal timber trafficking from Myanmar, a sophisticated new criminal network is openly smuggling timber across the Myanmar-China border, according to the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).
Britain said it is willing to offer shelter to Myanmar's ambassador to London after he was ousted from his embassy by pro-junta diplomats.
Kyaw Zwar Minn met on Thursday with Nigel Adams, Britain's Foreign Office minister for Asia, after his hosts said they could no longer recognise him as ambassador in line with the junta's decision to terminate his posting.
Indian security forces killed seven suspected rebels in two clashes as disputed Kashmir saw some of its worst fighting in over seven months, police said Friday.
Five militants were killed in the southern town of Shopian during one shootout that started Thursday, triggering anti-India protests in the area.
The five became trapped in a raid by security forces and two took shelter in a mosque in the Muslim-majority region that is also claimed by Pakistan.
The WHO reiterated Friday there was "no adequate data" on switching Covid-19 vaccines between doses, after France said under-55s who received an AstraZeneca first jab should get their second from a different vaccine.
The World Health Organization has called for studies on so-called mixing and matching between vaccines, but said there was no comprehensive data so far on which it could make any recommendations.
Myanmar's own ambassador to the United Nations pressed Friday for a no-fly zone and sanctions as international pressure grew on the military junta to end a deadly crackdown and restore democracy.
The United States and European nations pleaded for action at a meeting of the UN Security Council where a Southeast Asian summit on the crisis was taking shape, but the junta remained defiant and refused entry to a UN special envoy.