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Music icon Caetano Veloso urges Brazil to stop Bolsonaro
Mar 10, 2022 (AFP)
President Jair Bolsonaro's government is doing things that are even worse, he said Wednesday as he led a protest against its environmental policies. Veloso, 79,...
Myanmar junta strips shadow gov members of citizenship
Mar 05, 2022 (AFP)
Ousted lawmakers formed the "National Unity Government" weeks after the military's power-grab last year, and have vowed to overturn the coup. The NUG has since ...
Myanmar junta pardons actor jailed for dissent
Mar 02, 2022 (AFP)
Paing Takhon, 25 -- a star in both Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand -- had been active in the mass protests that rocked the country following last year's coup,...
The shadowy messengers delivering threats to Hong Kong civil society
Feb 21, 2022 (AFP)
Unlike the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong long hosted a vibrant landscape of citizens' groups who cultivated rights advocacy, union mobilisation and civil disobedi...
The online activists helping Myanmar troops desert
Feb 18, 2022 (AFP)
Sergeant Zay Ya heeded the call, slipping away from his base near Yangon to a car waiting to whisk him towards the Thai border, where he found refuge with ethni...
New ASEAN Myanmar envoy says wants to meet junta opponents
Feb 17, 2022 (AFP)
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has led diplomatic efforts to end the chaos unleashed by last year's putsch in Myanmar, which triggered mass protests...
Spies baulk as China becomes weapon in Aussie election campaign
Feb 17, 2022 (AFP)
The current and former heads of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) made an unprecedented decision to speak out, with the latest interventi...
China-born billionaire denies Australian election interference
Feb 15, 2022 (AFP)
Property developer Chau Chak Wing said allegations that he was the unnamed person that funnelled hundreds of thousands of dollars to potential candidates to try...
Myanmar junta says won't attend ASEAN summit after 'regrettable' snub
Feb 14, 2022 (AFP)
ASEAN invited Myanmar to send a "non-political representative" to this week's foreign ministers' meeting, citing a lack of progress on a consensus agreed last y...
Myanmar junta announces Union Day prisoner amnesty
Feb 12, 2022 (AFP)
The country has been in turmoil since last year's coup, with mass protests and a subsequent military crackdown that has killed more than 1,500 civilians, accord...
Myanmar junta denies detained Australian academic released
Feb 07, 2022 (AFP)
Sean Turnell was working as an adviser to Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi when he was detained shortly after the coup in February last year. He has bee...
Rakhine rebels clash again with Myanmar junta troops: spokesman
Feb 07, 2022 (AFP)
The Southeast Asian country has been in chaos since last February's putsch, with a brutal crackdown on dissent and increased fighting in borderlands involving e...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi back in court; As junta troops burn villages
Feb 04, 2022 (AFP)
Suu Kyi has been detained since her civilian government was ousted in a coup last year that triggered mass protests and a bloody military crackdown, with more t...
Myanmar junta files eleventh corruption charge against Suu Kyi
Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)
Suu Kyi, 76, has been detained since the February 1 coup last year that triggered mass protests and a bloody crackdown on dissent with more than 1,500 civilians...
Myanmar foreign minister barred from ASEAN meet: Cambodia
Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)
Cambodia, which currently holds the bloc's rotating chairmanship, said there had been too little progress on a "five-point consensus" agreed by leaders last yea...
Two killed, 38 injured in Myanmar rally attack on coup anniversary
Feb 01, 2022 (AFP)
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place as anti-coup activists marked the coup's anniversary with a silent strike and clappi...
Myanmar shuts shop to defy junta on coup anniversary
Feb 01, 2022 (AFP)
The military takeover that ended the Southeast Asian country's brief democratic interlude and toppled civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has triggered mass protes...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi to face new trial for electoral fraud: source
Jan 31, 2022 (AFP)
Suu Kyi, 76, has been detained since the February 1 coup last year that triggered mass protests and a bloody crackdown on dissent with more than 1,500 civilians...
China warns against more violence in Myanmar
Jan 28, 2022 (AFP)
"That's the primary goal we should have in our mind," Zhang Jun told reporters after a two-hour, closed- door meeting of the Security Council. He said the new U...
'Living in a dark era': one year since Myanmar's coup
Jan 28, 2022 (AFP)
A year later the country's latest junta is struggling to contain the backlash unleashed by its power grab, with daily clashes and swathes of the country outside...
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