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...“Myawaddy is just one example of how the junta’s forces are weakening,” NUG spokesperson Kyaw Zaw told the Financial Times....
...It has called on the UN to continue accrediting Kyaw Moe Tun....
...The UN’s credentials committee also recently chose to maintain recognition of Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s UN ambassador who broke with the junta after the coup....
...Kyaw Min Yu previously spent a combined 20 years in prison over the 1998 student-led protest movement and 2007 Saffron Revolution. Phyo Zeya Thaw previously served four years in prison from 2008....
...She will show “Lost Children 1”, a work by Maung Day revisiting the story of how the pied piper led children to disappear — a pervasive plague in Myanmar — and “Tales (The Kiss)” by Kyaw Htoo Bala, a young...
...US justice authorities said they had foiled a plot to “injure or kill” Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s UN ambassador who broke with the junta after the military coup....
...The UN has kept Kyaw Moe Tun, who supports the partially exiled national unity government, in place as Myanmar’s permanent representative....
...The NUG’s shift in tactics comes ahead of the international community’s expected deliberations at the UN General Assembly over whether Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s representative who has pledged loyalty to the...
...A battle between the regime and coup opponents over diplomatic recognition is expected at the UN, where Myanmar’s ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun broke with the junta and pledged loyalty to the ousted government...
...Myanmar’s UN ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun denounced the coup in a February speech to the general assembly and pledged support to the parallel government....
...The junta dismissed Kyaw Moe Tun and appointed Tin Maung Naing, his deputy, in his place....
...“We set up offices in all the countries, get a licence from regulators and connect to all the payment operations in every country,” said Aung Kyaw Moe, chief executive of 2C2P....
...Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s UN representative, broke with the junta in February and pledged loyalty to the CRPH, and he still represents the country at the world body....
...But Kyaw Moe Tun is already back at work....
...Myanmar state television reported on Saturday that Kyaw Moe Tun had been sacked as the country’s UN ambassador after he denounced the coup, publicly broke with the junta and urged the world to support the...
...Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s permanent representative to the UN, was sacked by the junta after delivering a speech in which he urged the world to use “any means necessary” to reverse the coup....
...But later on Friday at the UN, the protest movement received a powerful and startling endorsement when Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s official ambassador to the world body, denounced the coup in a speech to the...
...“We are enormously pleased that Myanmar has released our courageous reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo,” said Stephen J Adler, editor in chief of Reuters....
...Hla Kyaw, chairman of the European Rohingya Council campaign group, branded Aung San Suu Kyi a “disgrace to Myanmar”. “Her statement is shocking,” he said. “How can she deny the truth?”...
...Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were reporting on Myanmar security forces’ bloody crackdown against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state when they were arrested in December 2017....
...They included the Reuters reporters Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone, jailed in Myanmar for their reporting of the Rohingya crisis, who were released in May after international pressure....
...During their trial, a police witness admitted that, when it came to official documents found in their possession, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were set up....
...Ressa, head of Philippine media outlet Rappler, whose coverage of President Rodrigo Duterte led to her arrest after the justice department filed a libel case against her, and Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw...
...Stephen J Adler, Reuters editor in chief, said: Today’s ruling is yet another injustice among many inflicted upon Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo....
...In May, the government accepted the resignation of Kyaw Win as planning and finance minister. Critics said he was out of his depth in the high-level post....
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