This Week in Asia: August 4, 2023
China’s J-20 Gets Another Upgrade By Rick Joe Updates on the 5th-gen fighter’s WS-15 engine, …
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Why Did Myanmar’s Military Reduce Aung San Suu Kyi’s Prison Sentence?
Advertisement Yesterday, Myanmar’s military-led government announced that it had reduced the prison sentence of ousted …
Myanmar Junta’s Surprise Pardons Show International Pressure Is Working
Advertisement Myanmar’s brutal ruling generals know only one modus operandi: repression and lies. That means …
Aung San Suu Kyi Has Some of Her Prison Sentences Reduced by Myanmar’s Military Junta
ASEAN Beat | Politics | Southeast Asia Despite the minor reduction in her prison sentence, the 78-year-old Nobel laureate …
Myanmar Junta Extends State of Emergency for Fourth Time
ASEAN Beat | Politics | Southeast Asia The extension is an admission that the military has failed to quell …
Malaysia, Philippines Discuss More ‘Flexible’ ASEAN Approach to Myanmar’s Military
ASEAN Beat | Diplomacy | Southeast Asia President Marcos Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim say that …
When the Myanmar Junta Burns Villages
Advertisement Burned, bombed, and abandoned villages have become a common sight across Myanmar since the …
Southeast Asian Nations Renew Alarm Over Myanmar Violence. But Diplomats Can’t Settle On a Solution
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, center, speaks to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, unseen, …
