Myanmar

The start of air routes between Myanmar and Russia, launched in early September with direct connections Russia-Myanmar with Myanmar Airways International in the lead, has been celebrated meeting on Thursday 26 October in Moscow

Flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains in Myanmar's southern areas has displaced more than 14.000 people and disrupted traffic on railway lines connecting the country's major cities

The military junta is reportedly using access to vaccines as a political weapon; like with international aid shipments, basic inoculations are being distributed on the basis of political loyalty

Myanmar's military government would require expatriate workers to remit at least 25% of their income in foreign currency through the country's banking system, according to local news reports

The country will start accepting cards from the Russian Mir payment system in October, according to the junta's Minister for Investment and Foreign Economic Relations

An already dire human rights situation is deteriorating and all political prisoners should be released, UN chief said, while major local media outlet revealed that one of its journalists has been jailed for 20 years for covering the aftermath of a typhoon

Floods and landslides caused by monsoon rains claimed five lives and forced some 48.000 people to flee their homes, the Ministry of Relief said

Myanmar's ruling military junta has decided to grant a partial pardon to Aung San Suu Kyi after the former leader was transferred from prison to house arrest at a government residence in recent days

Yangon Eastern Union student Nyan Win Htet was sentenced to another five years in prison by the Myanmar court for alleged terrorism

Responding to questions from parliamentarians, Singapore Foreign Minister Balakrishnan admitted that 91 Singaporean entities provide various goods to the Myanmar military despite the 1 February 2021 coup

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk stated 40 aid workers have been killed and 200 arrested by the military junta in Myanmar since the 2021 military coup

Several dozen Myanmar regime troops surrendered to the civil government of national unity (NUG) and anti-regime resistance groups in southeastern Kayah State in the largest such surrender since the people's war against the junta broke out in 2021