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International courts are still investigating the Myanmar military’s slaughter of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority in 2017 that the United States has called a genocide. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled to Bangladesh and those who stayed faced persecution from the junta. Now a new threat to the group is looming, this time at the hands of a powerful rebel force.
Singapore’s Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen summed up the mood on Sunday, the final day of the three-day security forum, when he said the system of global governance in place since the end of World War II “guarantees the security and survival of large nations and small”.
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Tin Oo, co-founder of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Myanmar's political party led by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, died on Saturday, a NLD source told Nikkei. He was 97.
U Tin Oo, a former Burmese armed forces chief and minister of defense who turned against his country’s repressive government to become a leader of the pro-democracy movement there, died on Saturday in Yangon, Myanmar. He was 97.
Hello from Tokyo. Recent remarks by U.S. President Joe Biden saying Japan is "xenophobic" and doesn't want immigrants have prompted the Japanese government to hit back, saying his comments were not based on an accurate understanding. But the fact remains that foreign residents account for just over 2% of Japan's total population, far less than in major Western countries such as the U.S. and Germany.
By any measure, it would be a stretch to say that the United States is currently engaged in a New Cold War proxy war with China and Russia in Myanmar.
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh - Tens of thousands of visitors flock each week to this local seaside resort, a gateway to the world's longest natural sea beach, named after a 19th century British colonial administrator.
Morten B. Pedersen is a senior lecturer in international politics with the University of New South Wales Canberra at the Australian Defense Force Academy. He previously worked for the International Crisis Group in Myanmar as a senior analyst.