Bangkok, Apr 30 (EFE).- Thailand’s oil state-run oil company PTTEP and Malaysia’s Petronas have withdrawn from the Yetagun gas project, becoming the latest energy firms to pull out from Myanmar after a military coup in February 2021. “The withdrawal is part of the company portfolio management to refocus on projects that support the energy security …
Bangkok, Apr 7 (EFE).- An unknown assailant shot at and injured the deputy governor of the Myanmar central bank at her home Thursday morning. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on Than Than Swe, whose health condition is unknown. The Eleven Media news portal, citing an unnamed local administration official, said the assailant …
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A hundred days after the coup
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ASEAN has created a rare pathway to help Myanmar move forward
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ASEAN has created a rare pathway to help Myanmar move forward
On February 1, Army trucks and tanks rolled into the streets of Naypyidaw and Yangon, signaling the military’s overthrow of a government in which it had a sizeable share of power. The generals felt insecure with the landslide victory of the Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy (NLD) in the November 2020 elections. They decided to exert full control and terminate the experiment of transition to democracy that their wiser predecessors had initiated in 2010.
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Beauty pageants are notorious for contestants seemingly caring about nothing but world peace and complete harmony . Miss Grand Myanmar Han Lay s response at the Miss Grand pageant in Thailand last week was also you guessed it about world peace. But along with world peace, she also took the opportunity to bring attention to her home country s ongoing democratic struggle and the atrocities committed by the state s military. Today in my country Myanmar . there are so many people dying, she said. Please help Myanmar. We need your urgent international help right now.
Just a week prior, Lay was on the bloody streets of Yangon, Myanmar s largest city where she s also a student at a university protesting against the military and for a democratic revolution. Early in February 2021, when the Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy party was in power having won in the November 2020 general elections the military seized control of the state, using