Tag: Myanmar

Chief Adviser of the interim government in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus has warned about the Rohingya crisis in his speech at the 80th UN General Assembly. He warned that eight years ...

Myanmar’s governing military has declared a unilateral, temporary ceasefire in the country’s civil war to facilitate rescue efforts after last week’s powerful earthquake, as state television reported the death toll from ...

The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) has disclosed that hospitals in central and northwestern Myanmar are “struggling to cope with the influx of people injured during the earthquake.” The agency added ...

An Indian aid flight has landed in Myanmar, a day after a powerful 7.7-magnitude caused widespread damage in the country. Myanmar junta chief, Min Aung Hlaing issued an exceptionally rare appeal for international ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has triggered its emergency management system in response to an earthquake in Myanmar and was mobilising its logistics hub in Dubai to prepare trauma injury ...

Myanmar’s military government has extended its state of emergency for another six months. This comes as it struggles to maintain its increasingly fragile grip on power, with fighting raging on ...

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi has urged the international community not to forget the plight of ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in the midst of many other ...

UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has urged for a unified tactic to end the crisis in Myanmar as well as world problems. Speaking at a press conference on the sidelines of the ...

The head of the United Nations Human Rights office, Volcker Turk, has bemoaned the injustice shown to the people of Rohingya, after their departure from Myanmar, as a result of ...

Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister, Retno Marsudi, has cautioned about the level of risk posed by the use of nuclear weapons. Marsudi made these remarks during the opening of the Southeast ...