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NEWS DESK As the United Nations General Assembly comes to a close, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly is urging countries to uphold women’s rights and abortion access while rooting out sexual violence, The Canadian Broadcasting Corp reports. In a speech today, Monday, Sept 26, in New York, Joly said Canada’s priorities in international relations Continue Reading
NEWS DESK The crisis in Myanmar is under control and the ruling military will do all in its power to hold elections next year as planned, providing the vote can be free from foreign interference, its leader said, Reuters reports. Speaking to Russian news agency RIA in a rare interview published on Wednesday, Senior General […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government (NUG) has said that its People’s Defense Forces (PDF) and allied ethnic revolutionary organizations (ERO)) have effective control of more than half the country after a year of waging a people’s defensive war against the military regime, The Irrawaddy reports. In a speech on Wednesday marking the one-year […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK The leader of Myanmar’s military junta will travel to Russia next week for economic talks, state media in the Southeast Asian nation reported on Saturday, AFP reports. Min Aung Hlaing’s visit comes as both governments face diplomatic isolation — Moscow for its February invasion of Ukraine, and Naypyidaw for a military coup last […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Authorities in Myanmar have detained Britain’s former ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation, where a military junta seized power last year, three people with knowledge of the situation said on Thursday (Aug 25, 2022), Reuters reports. Vicky Bowman, who currently runs the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB), and her husband, Htein Lin, […]Continue Reading