Each weekend in Singapore, the Burmese diaspora congregates at Peninsula Plaza for news and a taste of home.
Customers stream into a pop-up food stall graced by a life-sized image of Myanmar’s deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, where volunteers sell home-made delicacies such as tea leaf salad and mohinga, a rice noodle and fish soup.
The stall’s owner, May Kyaw Soe Nyunt, said she takes in about S$5,000 (US$3,694) in per weekend, with all the funds sent to her homeland to help those having to endure life under Myanmar’s military regime.
“I want the world to know people in
Each weekend in Singapore, the Burmese diaspora congregates at Peninsula Plaza for news and a taste of home.
Customers stream into a pop-up food stall graced by a life-sized image of Myanmar’s deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, where volunteers sell home-made delicacies such as tea leaf salad and mohinga, a rice noodle and fish soup.
The stall’s owner, May Kyaw Soe Nyunt, said she takes in about S$5,000 (US$3,694) in per weekend, with all the funds sent to her homeland to help those having to endure life under Myanmar’s military regime.
“I want the world to know people in
Myanmar does not plan to participate in this week’s meetings in Cambodia of foreign ministers from ASEAN, spurning an invitation to send a non-political representative instead of its chief diplomat, its government said on Monday.
Cambodia, the current ASEAN chair, earlier this month said that members of the regional group had failed to reach a consensus on inviting Burmese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wunna Maung Lwin to its meetings today and tomorrow in the capital, Phnom Penh.
Wunna Maung Lwin was appointed foreign minister after the military seized power in Myanmar last year, ousting the elected government of civilian leader Aung San
Eight countries and the top EU diplomat yesterday urged the Burmese junta to let a regional special envoy meet ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The call comes as concerns grow over the military government’s commitment to a “five-point consensus” agreed with regional bloc ASEAN to defuse the bloody crisis that erupted after Myanmar’s Feb. 1 coup.
ASEAN foreign ministers were to meet virtually last night to debate whether to exclude Burmese Army Senior General Min Aung Hlaing from an upcoming summit over his government’s intransigence.
The military authorities have said they would not allow ASEAN Special Envoy to Myanmar Erywan Yusof