Tag: junta

YANGON: Myanmar's junta on Monday began releasing more than 3,000 prisoners to mark the Buddhist New Year, without specifying whether those jailed in its...

Myanmar's military authorities announced a six-month extension to a state of emergency on Wednesday, likely delaying elections the junta had pledged to hold by...

NAYPYIDAW: A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Thursday sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her former economic adviser, Australian Sean Turnell, to...

Myanmar has been in chaos and its economy paralysed since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in February and unleashed a brutal crackdown on dissent.

More than 60 protesters have been killed and 1,900 people have been arrested since Feb. 1, when Myanmar’s generals seized power and detained civilian leaders including State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi

BANGKOK: Thailand's junta chief said Tuesday the country would hold elections in November 2018, more than four years after the military seized power and...

BANGKOK: Fugitive former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra fled to Dubai and may try to seek asylum in the UK, a junta source told AFP...

BANGKOK: Two eight-year-old girls have been charged under a draconian Thai junta law for tearing down voter lists for an upcoming referendum, police said Saturday, as authorities go to increasingly bizarre lengths to muzzle dissent.

BANGKOK: A Thai man who "liked" a doctored photo of the country's king on Facebook is being held incommunicado at a military base, the ruling junta said Saturday, as rights groups warned he risked becoming another victim of "enforced disappearance."