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The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

Myanmar Junta Hits Opposition Forces With Communications Blackouts

Myanmar’s junta has been cracking down on opposition forces by cutting off mobile internet service and telephone lines in strongholds of local armed groups.

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Govt grateful for drug lord's deportation

Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin on Thursday thanked Myanmar authorities for repatriating Thawatchai Aomchompoo, one of Thailand's most-wanted drug suspects.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar’s woes

Silencing Ms. Suu Kyi will not help the junta tighten its control over a rebellious country

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300 Thai women forced into prostitution in Myanmar: escapee

About 300 Thai women have been forced into prostitution at a casino near the Thai-Myanmar border adjacent to Tak province, according to a 25-year-old woman who managed to escape.

Bangkok Post

India leads as internet shutdowns surge from Myanmar to Russia

India disrupted or blocked internet access at least 106 times last year, making it the world’s biggest offender for the fourth straight year, according to a report from digital rights advocacy group Access Now.

Bangkok Post

Illegal job seekers found hiding under cabbages in pickup trucks

Fourteen illegal job seekers from Myanmar and three Thais were arrested after the migrants were found hiding in the beds of two loaded cabbage pickup trucks in Phop Phra district of Tak.

Bangkok Post

Explainer-Suu Kyi's uphill battle in Myanmar junta's secretive courts

A court in army-ruled Myanmar delivered a guilty verdict and five-year prison term for 76-year-old former leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday, adding to six years already handed down in trials since December.

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Daily Dose Ep 1031: Sec 144 in Roorkee, judge questions Umar's jumla remark

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from the Supreme Court, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and Myanmar .

Newslaundry

Malaysian authorities start 'witch hunt' for Rohingyas fleeing migrant detention centre

Nearly 500 Rohingya refugees fled a detention centre where they were being held in Malaysia on April 20. Dozens of videos show them running along the highways, panicked. Most were later arrested by police. However, on April 26, Malaysian authorities called on the local population to find the 61 Rohingya…

France 24

Myanmar court adds more jail time for Suu Kyi on corruption

A special court in Myanmar sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in prison in the first of several corruption charges leveled against the deposed civilian leader, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Tribune News Service

Former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to five years in prison

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 76, had denied the allegation she had accepted gold and hundreds of thousands of dollars given to her as a bribe by a top political colleague

Evening Standard

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Handed 5 Year Jail Term for Corruption

A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail on Wednesday after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases against her, according to a source with knowledge of proceedings. The Nobel laureate, who led Myanmar for five years before…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Myanmar junta court convicts Suu Kyi of corruption

YANGON: A Myanmar junta court on Wednesday sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail for corruption, part of a barrage of criminal cases that could see the deposed civilian leader jailed for decades.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar military court sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to 5 years in prison for corruption

It's the latest verdict in a slew of cases that could see the deposed leader imprisoned for the rest of her life.

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Al Jazeera

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to jail for corruption

Court finds Myanmar’s deposed leader guilty in first of 11 corruption cases against her, sentences her to five years in jail.

France 24

Myanmar junta court sentences Suu Kyi to five years for corruption

A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison Wednesday in the first of several corruption cases against her.

ABC News

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to five years prison in first corruption case

A court in military-ruled Myanmar finds former leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of corruption and sentences her to five years in jail in the first of 11 cases against her.

The Guardian - AU

Myanmar junta sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to five years for corruption

Deposed leader has been detained since a military coup in 2021 and has been charged with offences ranging from fraud to violating the official secrets act

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Reuters

Factbox-Legal cases against Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday after being found guilty of corruption, a source with knowledge of her trial said.

The Independent UK

Myanmar court sentences Suu Kyi to 5 years for corruption

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has convicted the country’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison

Bangkok Post

Myanmar court sentences Suu Kyi to 5 years in jail

A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Wednesday found deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of corruption and sentenced her to five years in jail, according to a source with knowledge of the proceedings.

Reuters

Myanmar's Suu Kyi handed five-year jail term for graft

A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail on Wednesday after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases she faces, a source with knowledge of the proceedings said.

Bangkok Post

New special envoy for Myanmar named

The Foreign Affairs Ministry has appointed Pornpimol "Pauline" Kanchanalak, one of the foreign minister's advisers, as its special envoy for relations with Myanmar.

Bangkok Post

30 illegal Myanmar migrants caught in Ayutthaya

AYUTTHAYA: Highway police intercepted two pickup trucks in Lat Bua Luang district early on Tuesday and arrested 30 Myanmar nationals, who were charged with illegal entry.

The Independent UK

Myanmar court postpones verdict in Suu Kyi corruption case

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has postponed by a day delivering a verdict on the country’s former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi

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