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  • Monday, 10 July, 2023
    Christopher Sabatini
    The international human rights framework desperately needs an upgrade

    Countries in the global south are making dangerous alliances with illiberal autocracies

    Children of the United Nations International Nursery School in Paris inspect a poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    Adani Group
    Adani Group exits Myanmar with sale of port business

    Investors and human rights campaigners had condemned continued investment after brutal military coup

    A protest in Bangkok
  • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
    News in-depthNikkei Asia
    Uniqlo owner joins clothiers exiting Myanmar

    Fashion industry shifts outsourcing away from military-ruled country

    A woman manipulates thread at a desk with a sewing machine at a garment factory in Yangon
  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    FT Collecting Supplements
    Art in South-east Asia
  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    Art in South-east Asia
    Myanmar artists highlight history and struggle in Singapore Art Week

    Often working in exile or through symbols, they have to be careful in a post-coup landscape

    Two men stand in a yard. They hold aloft a wide acrylic painting that shows a man lying on a pink-toned beach as his white dog looks on
  • Friday, 30 December, 2022
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to 7 years in final corruption cases

    Former leader faces up to 33 years in prison after being deposed in a military coup in 2021

    A protester holds a poster with an image of leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a candlelight vigil in Yangon in March, 2021
  • Sunday, 27 November, 2022
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Junta holding Aung San Suu Kyi in a concrete hut in the jungle

    Australian adviser offers rare insight into the captivity of Myanmar’s deposed leader

    Aung San Suu Kyi giving a speech in front of flags
  • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
    ReviewFilm
    Midwives — complex portrait of a Buddhist and Rohingya odd couple

    Myanmar-made documentary shows how conflict pulls people apart and together

    A woman holding a small child is shown in silhouette against a twilight sky
  • Friday, 2 September, 2022
    Myanmar junta sentences former UK ambassador to year in prison

    Vicky Bowman jailed for immigration offences as former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has 3 years added to existing sentence

    A soldier stands at the gate of Yangon’s Insein prison
  • Friday, 26 August, 2022
    Myanmar regime arrests former UK ambassador

    Vicky Bowman and husband Htein Lin detained ahead of fifth anniversary of Rohingya crackdown

    Vicky Bowman speaks at TEDxYangon in 2017
  • Monday, 8 August, 2022
    Moral Money
    Kirin gets tangled in the divestment debate Premium content

    Plus, your reaction to the UN secretary-general’s call for windfall taxes on the oil and gas sector

    Aung San Suu Kyi attends a hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague
  • Monday, 8 August, 2022
    News in-depthChinese economy
    Chinese investors ditch property for jade in search of higher returns

    Prices for the semi-precious stone have soared after supply was squeezed by coup, Covid and sanctions

    A woman displays a jade necklance
  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    News in-depth
    Myanmar junta in ‘serious struggle to survive’ as insurgency gathers momentum

    Military regime is failing to contain armed resistance movement that is attracting recruits

    Members of the ‘People’s Defence Force’ take part in military training
  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    Telenor ASA
    Myanmar junta approves Telenor’s divestment from country

    Exit of Norwegian group, which has been trying to leave for months, has dismayed human rights activists

  • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
    EU targets Myanmar’s lucrative energy sector in latest sanctions

    Companies under pressure to divest from country and cut off funding for junta

    A demonstrator near a barricade during a protest against the military coup in Mandalay in March 2021
  • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
    News in-depthNikkei Asia
    Yangon’s calm masks Myanmar’s pain a year after military takeover

    Commercial capital adapts to ‘new normal’ but fear and violence lurk just below the surface

    General Min Aung Hlaing, leader of Myanmar’s junta
  • Tuesday, 8 February, 2022
    Myanmar activist warns Telenor that sale will endanger junta’s opponents

    Norwegian telecoms company is struggling to appease both regime and human rights campaigners

    A Myanmar soldier stands outside City Hall in Yangon after soldiers occupied the building
  • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    Has plant-based meat peaked?

    Alphabet announced a 20-for-one stock split on Tuesday

  • Tuesday, 1 February, 2022
    Myanmar businesses defy army nationalisation threat and join strike

    Companies caught in middle as opposition organises stoppage to mark anniversary of coup

    Protesters in Myanmar hold up a placard of Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration after last year’s military coup
  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    Australia’s Woodside pulls out of Myanmar gas projects

    Energy company relinquishes exploration licences over human rights abuses

    Woodside had been operating in Myanmar since 2013
  • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
    Inside BusinessJohn Reed
    Stay or go: the dilemma for multinationals in Myanmar

    Companies are having to make judgment calls on dealing with a repressive regime

    Protesters burn a picture of Myanmar’s military chief Min Aung Hlaing during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon
  • Sunday, 23 January, 2022
    News in-depth
    Myanmar junta’s air strikes force thousands of people to flee to Thailand

    Conflict in east of country reveals how violence after coup is widening and intensifying

    Displaced people from Myanmar cross the Moei river to pick up donated food supplies near Mae Sot, Thailand
  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    Total and Chevron pull out of Myanmar gas project

    French group cites lack of progress in sanctions on gas revenues flowing to junta

    A logo near silos and chimneys and at the Total SE Grandpuits oil refinery in Grandpuits-Bailly-Carrois, France
  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to four years for importing walkie-talkies

    Myanmar junta has brought numerous charges against deposed leader since staging coup in February

    Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
    John Reed
    Myanmar massacre fuels calls for vote on UN arms embargo

    Christmas Eve civilian killings brought condemnation but have not yet sparked international action

    Burntout vehicles in the aftermath of the attack in which army troops killed and incinerated at least 35 people, including women, children, and two charity employees
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