Yangon, 28 oct (Prensa Latina) Myanmar recibirá hoy una misión de la Asociación de Naciones del Sudeste Asiático (Asean), encabezada por su enviada especial, Maria Theresa Lazaro, que buscará ampliar la asistencia a zonas afectadas por conflictos armados.
The post Myanmar recibirá misión humanitaria regional first appeared on Noticias Prensa Latina.
Kim Aris tells the Guardian chance to speak with detained Nobel laureate was ‘public relations’ move from military leaders
Myanmar’s former democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be in good physical and mental health but is living in near-complete isolation, her son has said after the first call with his 81-year-old mother in more than five years.
“She still sounds certainly all there mentally, and physically she sounds strong,” Kim Aris said. “I don’t think she has anybody outside of the military or the police around her, so essentially she’s been held in solitary confinement from what I gather.”
Continue reading...
© Photograph: Tian Macleod Ji/AP
© Photograph: Tian Macleod Ji/AP
© Photograph: Tian Macleod Ji/AP
Kim Aris says ‘hearing her voice again means more than words can express’ amid loosening of detention restrictions
The son of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has been allowed to speak to the detained former democratic leader for the first time in more than five years.
“Today, I was finally able to speak with my mother, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, after more than five years. Hearing her voice again means more than words can express,” Kim Aris said in a post on Facebook on Thursday.
Continue reading...
© Photograph: Spokesperson for the President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar/AFP/Getty Images
© Photograph: Spokesperson for the President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar/AFP/Getty Images
© Photograph: Spokesperson for the President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar/AFP/Getty Images
© MYANMAR PRESIDENTIAL PRESS AND INFORMATION BUREAU HANDOUT/EPA
The recent Reuters headline, “US opens direct talks with Myanmar’s generals, reversing years of isolation,” describes a consequential diplomatic change. It is not a verdict that the junta has won, or that Myanmar’s revolution has lost. The distinction matters because an exaggerated reading can spread precisely the discouragement the generals would welcome. So what did […]
The post One freed American doesn’t equal US policy shift on Myanmar appeared first on Asia Times.
Last week, eight Chinese-made light attack jets sat on a half-finished runway at Ban Keun, flanked by more than two dozen military support vehicles, offering the first aerial glimpse of a new Chinese-Lao military facility north of the Lao capital, Vientiane. The speed of the buildup and the earthmoving visible around the airstrip in the […]
The post Belt and Road paving way for China’s military presence in SE Asia appeared first on Asia Times.
Login