TANAH MERAH: The police have detained 50 undocumented Myanmar nationals who were hiding in a shophouse in Kampung Jelakong in a raid here on Tuesday( May 10) evening. Tanah Merah OCPD Supt Wan Zulfikri Wan Othman said two local men, 48 and 65, were also arrested at the premises during the raid, which conducted by a team from Tanah Merah police headquarters Criminal Investigation Department( CID) at 5. 30pm." A total of 43 Myanmar men and seven women, aged 18 to 45, were in the shop house and did

THE HAGUE: Lawyers for Myanmar’s military rulers on Monday sought to have a case at the United Nations’ top court that accuses the Southeast Asian nation of genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. Public hearings at the International Court of Justice went ahead amid questions about who should represent Myanmar in the aftermath of the military take-over of the country last year.A shadow administration known as the National Unity Government made up of repr

PETALING JAYA: The five victims of the landslide early Friday( Jan 26) morning at Cameron Highlands have been identified as Myanmar nationals. Cameron Highlands OCPD Deputy Supt Azri Ramli said that the first victim had been identified as Haphey, 36, who was found dead at about 3am on Friday, Malay language daily Sinar Harian reported. ALSO READ: One dead, four feared buried alive in Cameron Highlands landslideDSP Azri told Sinar the vicims who are still missing and feared buried alive have been

GEORGE TOWN: A Myanmar national was arrested for allegedly using the identity of another person to receive his Covid-19 vaccination at the Retail Industry Vaccination( RiVAC) programme in Gurney Paragon Mall. OCPD Asst Comm Soffian Santong said the suspect was arrested on Thursday( Sept 9) after a 44-year-old Myanmar national lodged a police report on Sept 6." The complainant went to the vaccination centre( PPV) in Tapak Pesta Sungai Nibong to get his vaccination only to find out that his name a

In this photo issued by the Myanmar Military True News Information Team, former U.S. ambassador and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, left, meets with State Administration Council Chairman, Senior Gen.... Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Nov.... Also present were the ministers of foreign affairs, health and international cooperation, it said....

YANGON, Sept.... 1( Xinhua)--One villager was killed and two others injured in an ethnic armed group attack in eastern Myanmar's Shan state on Friday, the State Administration Council's Information Team said. According to the council's information team, the assault was launched by Ta' ang National Liberation Army( TNLA) on Zeedaban village in Nantphatkar village of Kutkai town at around 2: 00 p.m. local time on Friday. TNLA members attacked the village with heavy weapons from some 1, 000 meters

Anti-coup protesters march in Yangon, Myanmar, on Feb.... That's even though the social media giant vowed to remove such content following the coup.... It announced in February that it would remove Myanmar military and military-controlled pages from its site and from Instagram, which it also owns, and has since enacted a host of other measures intended to reduce offline harm in the country....

Myanmar’s then-leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on Jan.... Zaw Min Tun can be seen answering reporters’ questions and saying he has not received any information about the reports that Suu Kyi has already been transferred from prison to a residence in the capital Naypyitaw.... World Nation Myanmar court again finds ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of corruption Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi is sentenced to seven years in prison in the last of a st

GENEVA( Reuters)-War crimes committed by Myanmar's military, including the bombing of civilians, have become" increasingly frequent and brazen", a team of United Nations investigators said in a report published on Tuesday. The report by the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar( IIMM), which covered the period between July 2022 and June 2023, said there was" strong evidence that the Myanmar military and its affiliate militias have committed three types of combat-related war crimes with

WASHINGTON — Three years ago, American investigators produced a 15, 000-page analysis of atrocities committed in 2017 against the Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority group in Myanmar.... Markey asked when the State Department would decide whether the atrocities amounted to genocide, and though Mr.... The 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation filed legal action against Myanmar in 2019, accusing it of violating the U.N.’s Genocide Convention.Mr....