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Russia To Cut Ties With The US Over Terror Label

Russia To Cut Ties With The US Over Terror Label

The Russian Foreign Ministry warned that diplomatic ties between the two countries will likely completely break down if the hawks in the US Congress succeed in having Washington label Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. “We can cope if Washington decides to completely halt all communication with Moscow. There

Rest in Peace “Jimmy” Kyaw Min Yu

Rest in Peace “Jimmy” Kyaw Min Yu

By George Katsiaficas On July 23, 2022, the military in Myanmar secretly executed four leaders of the country’s freedom movement. The martyrs’ families, like the men themselves, were not given advance notice. Final goodbyes were never said. Only after the dictatorship publicly announced the hangings two days later, on

Petronas is out of the Yetagun field in Myanmar

KUALA LUMPUR, 30 April 2022 – PETRONAS’ yesterday says its subsidiaries, PETRONAS Carigali Myanmar Inc (PCMI) and PC Myanmar (Hong Kong) Limited (PCML) have withdrawn from Blocks M12, M13 and M14 which are located in the Yetagun field, offshore Myanmar. The company says the decision was made following a thorough techno-commercial

Myanmar: New $2.5b LNG power plant is biggest FDI

Myanmar: New $2.5b LNG power plant is biggest FDI

NAY PYI TAW, MM, Jan 27, 2022 – Foreign investments approved in the past year include a USD 2.5 billion project for the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) power plant in Myanmar. Other than that, the military junta has approved USD 3.82 billion equivalent in foreign investments

Rare US-Asean Collaboration To Pressure Myanmar After Blinken Malaysia Visit

Rare US-Asean Collaboration To Pressure Myanmar After Blinken Malaysia Visit

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that the US would search for new measures to increase pressure on Myanmar in the face of ongoing post-coup violence and as the country’s neighbours debate whether to keep isolating junta chief Min Aung Hlaing. In a joint press conference

Malaysia welcomes Heyzer as UN special envoy to Myanmar

Dr Noeleen Heyzer

Malaysia welcomes Heyzer as UN special envoy to Myanmar

Malaysia today says it warmly welcomes the appointment of Dr Noeleen Heyzer as the new United Nations Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar. Malaysia believes that Dr Heyzer, a former senior UN diplomat, would bring considerable expertise and impetus for constructive and meaningful engagement towards a peaceful resolution to

Call To Preserve Justice And Democracy In Myanmar

Call To Preserve Justice And Democracy In Myanmar

Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization Malaysia (MERHROM) urges support from global organisations to push for genuine democracy in Myanmar. The media release from the group depicts the failures of all the relevant organisations, from the United Nations to the International Criminal Court in dealing with crimes in Myanmar. We

Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi faked it. The army did not buy it!

Palestinian journalist Dr Ramzy Baroud says both the military and Aung San Suu Kyi have betrayed democracy in Myanmar. He says the military coup is an unwarranted action but Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) rule was never really democratic. Myanmar was far from being a true democracy

The rise of Islamic Turkey: Military actions on Myanmar?

A phenomenon that has been ignored by many, but the second biggest army in NATO is readying itself to play a bigger role in the global sphere. Here in the picture, Turkey’s self-imposed-President-with-powers (the president used to be powerless) Recep Erdogan is praying for Turkey’s rise as a

Both Aung San Suu Kyi and Obama failed the Nobel Peace Award!

Stuck between a rock (the military) and a hard place (the people), Aung Sang Suu Kyi shows why the Nobel Peace Prize should not be given to living souls. It should clearly be handed over posthumously. But since the West has lost some of its core values in the long