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TOKYO — Myanmar authorities have released a Japanese man from detention, Japan's foreign ministry confirmed on Tuesday (Aug 13), following reports in media of the release of a manager of supermarket giant Aeon's local unit.
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese business executive who was detained in Myanmar for more than a month has been released after being convicted of violating rice pricing rules, officials said Tuesday.
TOKYO – A Myanmar court on Aug 12 sentenced a Japanese executive from the local unit of supermarket chain operator Aeon to one year in prison for violating rice price controls, Kyodo news agency reported, citing unnamed diplomatic sources.
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's minority resistance forces are expanding their areas of control in the country, in some cases imposing strict rule on various local ethnic groups, as the forces' lack of democratic ideals casts a pall over hopes for stability in the region.
Thomas Kean is International Crisis Group's senior consultant on Bangladesh and Myanmar.
BANGKOK/YANGON -- A Myanmar court under the military government sentenced an executive from Japanese retailer Aeon to one year in prison on Monday for selling rice at inflated prices, as Tokyo continues to lobby for his release.
Medical charity MSF warns of urgent need to protect civilians caught up in escalating conflict in western Rakhine State.
BANGKOK (AP) -- At least 150 civilians from Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority may have been killed last week in an artillery and drone attack in the western state of Rakhine that survivors suspect was carried out by a major force in the resistance to military rule.