Security forces killed at least nine opponents of Myanmar’s February 1 coup yesterday, a funeral service and media said, as Indonesia urged an end to violence and Western ambassadors condemned what they called the military’s immoral, indefensible actions.

Japan government has decided to extend emergency grant aid of USD 10 million for displaced Rohingyas and host communities in Bangladesh.

Thousands of opponents of military rule in Myanmar marched in the town of Natmauk, the birthplace of revered national hero Aung San, in defiance of a crackdown by security forces, local media reported.

Myanmar faced growing isolation yesterday with increasingly limited internet services and its last private newspaper ceasing publication as the military built a case against ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar’s most powerful Buddhist monks’ association called on the junta to end violence against protesters and accused an “armed minority” of torture and killing innocent civilians since last month’s coup, media said yesterday.

The Bangladesh-Maldives bilateral relationship is set to see a boost as the two South Asian countries are going to sign at least four MoUs on trade, tourism, fisheries, and health today.

The European Union agreed on Wednesday to blacklist Chinese officials for human rights abuses, two diplomats said, the first sanctions against Beijing since an EU arms embargo in 1989 following the Tianamen Square crackdown.

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A UN delegation is going to Bhasan Char on a three-day visit to see first-hand the housing facility for 100,000 Rohingyas.

The Philippines’ coronavirus task force said it will suspend the arrival of foreigners and some returning citizens as the Southeast Asian country battles a renewed surge in Covid-19 cases and increasing infections of new variants.

Thousands of residents fled an industrial suburb of Myanmar’s commercial capital after it was placed under martial law by the ruling junta following bloody anti-coup protests over the weekend.

Sri Lanka's government said Tuesday it would take time to consider a proposed ban on the wearing of burqas, which a top security official called a sign of religious extremism.

India has indicated that it disfavours economic sanctions against Myanmar in the wake of military coup there, saying “people on the ground should not suffer.”

The families of dozens of people killed in clashes between Myanmar security forces and anti-coup protesters prepared to hold funerals after candle-lit vigils took place overnight in defiance of a curfew.

More than 400 people from Myanmar, many of them policemen, have crossed into neighbouring India since late February, an Indian police officer said, as Myanmar security forces seek to crush pro-democracy demonstrators after the coup.

Myanmar security forces fired on pro-democracy demonstrators yesterday, killing 11 people, media and witnesses said, a day after dozens of protesters were shot dead and attackers torched several Chinese-financed factories in the city of Yangon.

China’s capital and a wide swath of the country’s north were enveloped Monday in the worst sandstorm in a decade, forcing the cancelation of hundreds of flights.

The Malaysian field hospital, set up in late 2017 in Cox’s Bazar by the Malaysian government in response to the Rohingya refugee crisis, was handed over to the Bangladesh government yesterday.

At least 14 anti-coup protesters were killed yesterday as demonstrators across Myanmar continued to defy military rule and a group of ousted MPs urged them to “defend themselves” during the nation’s “darkest moment”.

Myanmar security forces killed at least 12 people, witnesses and media reported, as the acting leader of a civilian parallel government yesterday vowed in a first public address to pursue a “revolution” to overturn the Feb 1 military coup.