Myanmar junta forces chasing insurgents raided the home of a journalist, killing him, another journalist and two other people, one of whom was a member of a rebel group, associated with the victims, including a former employer, told Radio Free Asia.Troops raided the home of journalist Htet Myat Thu in Mon State on Wednesday after receiving reports that insurgents were meeting there.Since the military seized power and overthrew a civilian government more than three years ago, junta officials have shut down independent media and arrested and tortured some journalists, victims and rights groups.Junta soldiers opened fire on Htet Myat Thu’s…
Author: Frank M. Everett
The partners of the power block in power in Thailand agreed on Thursday to appoint Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, to replace Srettha Thavisin, who was ousted by court prescription as PM one day earlier.The 11 parts of the Coalition led by the Thai Pheu Party gathered to discuss candidates for the Prime Minister, but decided to consolidate the appointment around Paetongtarn, 37. She would be the third shinawatra to direct the government if the deputies approved her appointment during a parliamentary vote on Friday.”Of course, the country must move forward. Today we are ready…
The Thailand’s legislature plans to meet on Friday to elect a new Prime Minister after the Constitutional Court withdrew Settha Thavisin from his functions on Wednesday, judging that he had committed an ethical violation by knowingly appointing a member of the cabinet with a criminal record.In a 5-4 verdict which dissolved the government of Srettha, which was in power for 11 months, the court said that it was responsible for verifying its cabinet appointments. He judged that he was aware of the previous conviction of Ally Pichit Chuenban, a former lawyer who had been detained for six months in 2008…
Police in Hangzhou, eastern China, called for more humane treatment of delivery workers after a security guard at an upscale residential complex forced a delivery worker to kneel, sparking angry protests from dozens of his colleagues.Video clips of the delivery woman kneeling by the roadside after the security guard snatched her scooter keys because she had climbed over a low fence to get to a customer’s home were published on X by citizen journalist Mr Li is Not Your Teacher on Monday.It also released images of police holding riot shields surrounding dozens of delivery workers who staged a protest outside…
Benarnews, an information portal funded by the US government that has been blocked in Bangladesh for over four years, can now be read all over the country in South Asia, from days after Sheikh Hasina resigned from his post as Prime Minister and fled the country.Friday and again on Monday, Benarnews journalists and the people they interviewed across the country were able to access the online site in almost all locations, for the first time since April 2020.But representatives of the current and former government told Benarnews that they did not know that the site had blocked in 2020 or…
The Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus was sworn in Thursday to lead the Bangladesh acting government following a three -day power of power that resulted from Sheikh Hasina who left the Prime Minister and fleeing the country.The 84 -year -old microcredit pioneer faces a massive task of restoring public order, stabilizing a lame saving and preparing the way for free and fair elections. No mention was made during the ceremony for the duration of the power by the interim government.The president of Bangladesh, Mohammed Shahabuddin, whose role is largely symbolic, took an oath to Yunus and the others at the…
The interim government of Bangladesh will be trained and sworn on Thursday evening, and its chief Muhammad Yunus will guide citizens through a “democratic process,” said the country’s army chief.On Wednesday, there was a burst of activity, two days after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina as Prime Minister in the midst of a mass movement which blames her for more than 300 lives lost during demonstrations since mid-July.The Ministry of the Interior announced a new controversial battalion chief of the rapid elite action (RAB), one day after the replacement of the police chief. The country’s attorney general resigned. The employees…
Muhammad Yunus has long pleaded for peace by prosperity.Now, the 84 -year -old Nobel Prize winner must restore stability in Bangladesh in the face of an agitated economy with young people who are angry with unemployment and citizens crushed by the inflation burden.Yunus, who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for the Pioneer Micro, received the little enviable task on Tuesday to lead an interim government in his country, after Sheikh Hasina resigned from his post as Prime Minister a day earlier and fled the nation.His departure came after weeks of anger after fatal clashes that made more than 300…
When the demonstrators ransacked the official residence of Sheikh Hasina and set fire to an honorary museum his murdered father – the founding chief of Bangladesh – they symbolically offer a good storage room to the rule of his oldest Prime Minister, whose rise in power was inextricably linked to him.Hasina, 76, one of the two women to have been Prime Minister of Bangladesh, resigned and fled the country on Monday. In a breathtaking turn of the events, the army chief announced that she had resigned, while the demonstrators led by students converged on the capital Dhaka to demand the…
The Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh resigned from his post as Prime Minister, the chief of the national army announced on Monday, in an astonishing turn of events while the chief who had held his duties for 15 consecutive years seemed to give the requests of the student demonstrators to resign.The announcement came while Dacca and other cities have prepared for more violence, as thousands of anti-government demonstrators challenged a curfew and walked despite the strong presence of government troops and police on the street.”Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has already resigned and we are working to form an interim government,” said…