Myanmar rejects International Criminal Court probe into crimes against Rohingyas
Myanmar's government has rejected the International Criminal Court's decision to allow prosecutors to open an investigation into crimes committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority. Government spokesman Zaw Htay said at a Friday night press conference that Myanmar stood by its position that the Netherlands-based court ...
The International Criminal Court on Thursday approved a long-awaited full investigation into Myanmar's alleged abuse of Rohingya Muslims, including crimes against humanity and persecution. The Hague-based war crimes court said in a statement it "authorized the prosecutor to proceed with an investigation for the alleged ...
Myanmar accused at U.N. court of committing genocide against Rohingya
Myanmar was accused Monday of genocide at the U.N.'s highest court for its campaign against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority, as lawyers asked the International Court of Justice to urgently order measures "to stop Myanmar's genocidal conduct immediately." Gambia filed the case on behalf of ...
Mortar fire from pro-Turkey forces kills foreign medic in northeast Syria: NGO
Mortar fire by pro-Ankara forces Sunday killed a Myanmar national working as a cameraman and medic for a non-governmental group in northeast Syria, the group said. Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies last month launched a cross-border attack against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria that ...
U.N. chief urges Myanmar to resolve Rohingya crisis but skips referring to them by name
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed concern Sunday over the plight of the 730,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar's Rakhine state, calling on Myanmar's government to take responsibility by dealing with the "root causes" of their flight to Bangladesh and working toward their safe repatriation. Guterres ...
Myanmar rebels say government attacked personnel they abducted
An ethnic guerrilla army in Myanmar said Sunday that some of the several dozen soldiers, police and civilian officials it abducted from a ferry were killed in a subsequent attack by government helicopters. A statement posted on the website of the Arakan Army, a rebel ...
U.N. mission head sees risk of Rohingya genocide recurring in Myanmar
The head of a U.N. fact-finding mission on Myanmar warned Tuesday that "there is a serious risk of genocide recurring" against the estimated 600,000 members of the Rohingya Muslim minority still living in the country. Marzuki Darusman told the General Assembly's human rights committee that ...
Bangladesh to start moving 100,000 Rohingya to flood-prone island next month
Bangladesh will start relocating Rohingya Muslims to a flood-prone island off its coast next month as several thousand refugees have agreed to move, a government official said on Sunday. Dhaka wants to move 100,000 refugees to Bhasan Char — a Bay of Bengal island hours ...
As rapes rise in Myanmar, augmented reality could help smash sex taboos
Technology could help Myanmar fight a rise in rape cases, says an award-winning entrepreneur who is using augmented reality to bring sex education to the socially conservative country. The rape in May of a 3-year-old girl at a private nursery has sparked outrage, prompting thousands ...
Number of Japanese-language institutions soars in Asia, survey finds
About 3.85 million people studied Japanese at a record 18,604 institutions overseas in fiscal 2018, with the number of institutions soaring in Asia, according to a survey released this week. The number of Japanese-language institutions jumped nearly fourfold to 818 in Vietnam from the previous ...
Bridging the gap between Yangon's haves and have-nots
On her scruffy, downtrodden bank of the river, tea shop owner Khin Than Myint works just a few hundred meters across the muddy water from Yangon and dreams of the riches promised by a new bridge linking to Myanmar's commercial heart. "The quicker, the better," ...
Unicode in, Zawgyi out: Modernity finally catches up in Myanmar's digital world
Accessing everything from Wikipedia to Google Maps is about to get a lot easier in Myanmar on Tuesday when it finally adopts the universal code underpinning phone and online communication. Tech experts say the move to bring the country more in step with the rest ...
