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Myanmar junta sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to five years for corruption

Deposed leader has been detained since a military coup in 2021 and has been charged with offences ranging from fraud to violating the official secrets act

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Factbox-Legal cases against Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday after being found guilty of corruption, a source with knowledge of her trial said.

Reuters

Myanmar court sentences Suu Kyi to 5 years for corruption

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has convicted the country’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison

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Myanmar court sentences Suu Kyi to 5 years in jail

A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Wednesday found deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of corruption and sentenced her to five years in jail, according to a source with knowledge of the proceedings.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar's Suu Kyi handed five-year jail term for graft

A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail on Wednesday after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases she faces, a source with knowledge of the proceedings said.

Reuters

New special envoy for Myanmar named

The Foreign Affairs Ministry has appointed Pornpimol "Pauline" Kanchanalak, one of the foreign minister's advisers, as its special envoy for relations with Myanmar.

Bangkok Post

30 illegal Myanmar migrants caught in Ayutthaya

AYUTTHAYA: Highway police intercepted two pickup trucks in Lat Bua Luang district early on Tuesday and arrested 30 Myanmar nationals, who were charged with illegal entry.

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Myanmar court postpones verdict in Suu Kyi corruption case

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has postponed by a day delivering a verdict on the country’s former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi

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Commentary: Russia is causing bloodshed in Myanmar, too

My heart breaks as I watch Russian planes bombing civilian homes, displacing millions of refugees and committing crimes against humanity in Ukraine. Four thousand miles away from Ukraine, in my home country of Myanmar (also known as Burma), Russia has been complicit for decades in the violence of the Burmese…

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Myanmar court postpones Suu Kyi verdict until April 27 - source

A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Tuesday postponed for one day its decision in the first of 11 corruption cases against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a source with knowledge of the court proceedings.

Reuters

Myanmar's Suu Kyi in court ahead of corruption trial verdict - source

Myanmar ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was in court on Monday accused of funnelling charity money into a real estate investment, a source familiar with her trial said, one of nearly a dozen graft cases against her carrying lengthy jail terms.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar military court delays verdict in Aung San Suu Kyi trial

Nobel laureate has been detained since the military overthrew the democratically elected government last year.

Al Jazeera

More illegal job seekers caught in Kanchanaburi

KANCHANABURI: Army patrols from the Surasee Task Force arrested another 76 Myanmar nationals who illegally crossed the border into this western province en route to promised jobs.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar junta court delays verdict in Suu Kyi corruption trial

A Myanmar junta court on Monday postponed giving its first verdict in the corruption trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a junta spokesman told AFP, a case which could see the Nobel laureate jailed for 15 years.

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Friendship Bridge bomb heightens fear

MAE SOT, TAK: A car bomb went off at the foot of the first Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge on the Myawaddy side of the border opposite Mae Sot district late on Saturday night, a security source said on Sunday.

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Myanmar's Suu Kyi in court ahead of corruption trial verdict - source

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Manipur event imagines ‘Nagas without borders’

Student body brings Nagas from across the northeast and Myanmar together near Thuingaleng Muivah’s birthplace

Al Jazeera

Oman secures release of 14 foreigners held in Yemen: Ministry

Oman’s foreign office says people freed include a British man, seven Indian nationals, a Filipino and a Myanmar citizen.

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Oman Secures Release of 14 Foreigners Held in Yemen

Oman facilitated the release of 14 foreigners who were held in Yemen and transferred them from Sanaa to Muscat on Sunday, Oman's foreign ministry said. The people freed included a British man, his wife and child, seven Indian nationals, a Filipino, an Indonesian, an Ethiopian and a Myanmar national, the…

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Car bomb rocks Myawaddy, putting Mae Sot on security alert

MAE SOT, TAK: A car bomb went off at the foot of the first Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge on the Myawaddy side of the border opposite Thailand's Mae Sot district late on Saturday night, prompting Thai security units to be put on alert, according to Thai media reports.

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Cabbie held in rape of Myanmar teen

A taxi driver has been charged with raping 17-year-old girl from Myanmar after luring her with an offer of a job and taking her to a love motel, where he handcuffed and assaulted her and photographed the acts.

Bangkok Post

Illegal migrants en route to Malaysia arrested in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: Eleven Myanmar nationals hoping to get work in Malaysia were arrested near the Thai-Malaysian border in Sadao district.

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Myanmar junta wants peace talks with ethnic rebels

Myanmar's junta chief on Friday called for face-to-face peace talks with the country's established ethnic rebel groups, as the military struggles to crush newer anti-junta militias that have sprung up to fight the coup.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar exempts foreign entities from exchange rules after business outcry

Myanmar's central bank has announced a broad exemption of foreign entities from a controversial new policy requiring foreign exchange to be converted into local currency, a rule that triggered panic among business groups and residents.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar plans energy investments, struggles with power outages

Myanmar's junta government plans to increase investment in the energy sector, seeking to shore up the supply of power as the country grapples with lengthy daily blackouts, its information minister said on Thursday.

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