A demented woman from Thailand has returned home after being missing for seven months after she was found at the end of January in the Chinese city of Kunming. The 59-year-old woman walked 640...
A French tourist has been arrested for flying a drone at the Myanmar parliament in Naypyidaw. The 27-year-old man faces a prison sentence of three years, says a local...
The European Commission wants to allocate a record amount of 1.6 billion euros this year for humanitarian aid. With that money, victims of crises like in Syria, Venezuela and Myanmar...
The appeal of two Reuters jounalists imprisoned in Myanmar has been rejected. The 32-year-old Wa Lone and 28-year-old Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced to seven years in September last year...
A court in Myanmar rejected the appeal that two journalists from Reuters news agency in Myanmar had lodged against their conviction. The duo Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo got...
Thousands of women from Myanmar are trafficked to men in China for forced marriage and childbirth.
The repatriation of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar does not start as scheduled on Thursday, two sources say Wednesday to Reuters news agency.
Amnesty International has taken Aung San Suu Kyi, the government leader of Myanmar, her highest award. The reason is that, in a shameless way, she has betrayed the values for which she once stood \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;.
Facebook fails to crush massive hate speech against Rohingya in Myanmar on its network. According to UN researchers, the platform has had a 'decisive role' in blasting out the brutal violence against the Muslim minority.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ICC is conducting a preliminary investigation into the violence against the Rohingya. Hundreds of thousands of members of that Muslim minority have fled to neighboring Bangladesh from Myanmar.
Soldiers in Myanmar have been guilty of gruesome crimes against members of the Muslim Rohingya minority. The army leader of the country and others responsible for the atrocities must be prosecuted internationally.
The Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi believes in retrospect that her government would have been better able to tackle the situation in the state of Rakhine.
Koh Tao, one of the most popular islands in Thailand, is for many a paradise on earth. But the island is startled by an increasing number of mysterious murders, rapes and disappearances.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) also deals with the issue of the Rohingya from Myanmar. This has determined magistrates of the international court. This allows research into the alleged persecution and deportation to Bangladesh of the Islamic Rohingya.
The sentence of seven years in prison for the two Reuters journalists who discovered a mass grave in Myanmar is a major blow to press freedom and democracy in the country.
What Facebook understands by terrorism is so wide that governments can use it to silence opponents. That says a UN ambassador.
A judge in Myanmar has sentenced two journalists from Reuters news agency, who have been detained since December last year, to seven years in prison. The two journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were accused of having obtained secret government documents about troop movements. The time since December 2017 that they are in the cell is deducted from the seven years in prison.
The Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi does not have to worry about having to hand in her Nobel Peace Prize. The rules do not allow the prestigious award to be withdrawn, says the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
About twenty important people and organizations in Myanmar can not be on Facebook for the time being. Their accounts were removed on Monday because they spread 'hatred and misinformation'.
International investigators blame the Myanmar army for crimes against humanity. Top soldiers from the Asian country must be prosecuted to see if they can be held accountable for this, says a research team that was set up by the UN Human Rights Council.
A judge in Myanmar today is ruling in the case against two Reuters journalists who discovered a mass grave during their reporting of the Rohingya crisis. They are on trial for violating the law on state secrets. But Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo say they have been sounded in it.
The United Nations is alarming the fate of half a million minor Rohingy refugees in Bangladesh. They live in crowded camps, have no access to good education and do not know when to return safely to their homeland Myanmar.
The United States has issued new sanctions against four Myanmar soldiers and two infantry divisions of the Asian country army. According to Washington, they are guilty of violating human rights against the Muslim population of Rohingya.
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged Myanmar to release two journalists from the Reuters news agency immediately. Pompeo called for a meeting with his Burmese counterpart Kyaw Tin at a conference in Singapore, according to the US Department of State.
Enthusiastic, lively, sporty. Little by little the information of the Thai grandsons who were rescued in the last few days drips inside. Three boys were celebrating their birthday, another had asthma, yet another promised to help his parents 'better in future'. Everyone has his own story.
Members of the Muslim Rohingya minority continue to flee Myanmar. Said Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that more than 11,000 Rohingya had migrated to Bangladesh since the beginning of this year.
It is an exceptionally dry day for the season in Mae Sai, the northernmost district in the province of Chiang Rai on the border with Myanmar, where twelve teenagers and their soccer coach have been trapped for 11 days in a flooded cave system.
Thai Seals yesterday succeeded in penetrating a little deeper into the flooded cave complex, where twelve teenagers and their football coach have been missing for more than a week. After days of heavy rainfall, the weather is finally favorable and the water level in the cave, located near Chiang Rai, has decreased slightly.
After the recent tightening of the arms embargo against Myanmar, the European Union is now also imposing sanctions against seven members of the (border) police because of their involvement in serious human rights violations in the Asian country. Their bank balances in the EU are frozen and they no longer receive visas for Europe.
Due to wars, violence and persecutions, 16.2 million people were displaced last year. This is stated in a report from the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, which was released on Tuesday.
