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Myanmar's military's conscription announcement has left many feeling trapped amid unrest, with observers fearing a potential mass departure exacerbating the civil war-like situation post-coup.
Following Inditex, the owner of Zara, Primark, Marks & Spencer, and other companies, H&M was the most recent company to sever connections with local suppliers. According to some experts, the tendency may ultimately worsen the situation of employees in the nation.
India continued its humanitarian assistance to cyclone-hit Myanmar under Operation Karuna, with Indian naval ship INS Gharial bringing vital medicine supplies, including antibiotics, analgesics, intravenous fluids and drugs for water-borne and epidemical diseases.
Innocent hope that the phoney elections would pave the way for stability as the military has cancelled plans for the August elections.
The victims' bodies were discovered Saturday, dispersed throughout a local monastery in Pinlaung Township.
Nestle's facility in Yangon, as well as its headquarters, will 'stop operations' owing to the present economic scenario.
Aung San Suu Kyi's six-year sentence means she will most likely miss the elections scheduled for next year by the junta.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar since 2017, following a military campaign that is now the subject of a genocide complaint at the United Nations' top court at the Hague.
The health ministry said that all tourists with a 14-day travel history to Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka would be permitted to enter or transit via Singapore from Wednesday.
The statement released by Singapore’s foreign ministry also acknowledged the lack of development made by the junta to reestablish peace in Myanmar after assuring ASEAN to do so back in April as a cause for the move.
On February 1, a military coup in Myanmar and an ensuing crackdown on mass protests in which hundreds had been killed had drawn the international condemnation and sanctions on military figures and military controlled entities.
Yuki Kitazumi, a Japanese journalist, had been previously arrested in February by Police while covering pro-democracy protests in Myanmar.
Myanmar Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing who evicted the elected government in a coup on February 1, will attend an association of Southeast Asian Nation Summit in Jakarta planned for April 21.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Monday reflected on Myanmar’s current political situation and condemned the “Burmese security forces’ brutal violence against civilians.”
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