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Thousands seek to leave Myanmar after military service diktat: What's happening

The embassy said it was issuing 400 numbered tickets a day in order to manage the queue.

People stand in line to get visas at the embassy of Thailand in Yangon after Myanmar's military government said it would impose military service.(AFP)
Published on Feb 16, 2024 04:20 PM IST
AFP |

Myanmar Airways International launches Chennai-Yangon direct flights

Myanmar Airways International launches Chennai-Yangon direct flights to mutually benefit and improve trade, health, leisure, tourism sectors of both countries.

Myanmar Airways International launches direct flights between Chennai and Yangon to boost connectivity with India (File Photo / REUTERS)
Updated on May 08, 2023 03:01 PM IST
PTI | | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz, Chennai

Top military-appointed election official shot dead in Myanmar

Myanmar Junta: Sai Kyaw Thu, deputy director-general of the military-appointed Union Election Commission, was shot multiple times on Saturday

Resistance groups earlier this year attempted to disrupt preparations for a new election the military. (File/ Reuters)
Published on Apr 23, 2023 04:11 PM IST
AP |

Myanmar court sentences US journalist to 11 years in jail

Fenster, the managing editor of the online magazine Frontier Myanmar, was also found guilty of contacting illegal organizations and violating visa regulations, lawyer Than Zaw Aung said.

US journalist Danny Fenster works out of his van that he made into a home/office in Detroit in 2018. (File Photo / AP)
Published on Nov 12, 2021 11:32 AM IST
AP |

Myanmar protesters don't relent in face of deadly crackdown

The verified death toll among protesters since the February 1 coup ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi has now exceeded 200, according to a tally compiled by the independent Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.

The extent of protests Wednesday in Yangon was hard to gauge as the government further restricted communications, limiting access to timely information.(Reuters)
Published on Mar 17, 2021 03:12 PM IST
PTI | , Yangon
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