Myanmar

YANGON, Sept 30 (NNN-MNA) – Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi and her Australian economic adviser, Sean Turnell, have been sentenced to three years each, for breaching the country’s official secrets act yesterday, a source familiar with the cases said.

Aung San Suu Kyi has been on trial on multiple charges, including electoral fraud, corruption, incitement, breaching the Natural Disaster Management Law, breaching the Export and Import Law and breaching the Communications Law.

She now faces 23 years in jail.

YANGON, Sept 30 (NNN-MNA) – A passenger plane of the state-owned Myanmar National Airlines was attacked during landing, near Loikaw airport in eastern Myanmar, this morning, leaving one injured, according to local authorities.

“A Yangon-Loikaw plane was shot near the Loikaw airport from nearby Wah La Poe Village. A passenger was injured in his ear, as a bullet pierced through into the cabin of the plane,” Zaw Min Tun, head of the State Administration Council’s Information Team, said.

YANGON, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has accelerated its control and prevention measures for COVID-19 as transmission increases in the country, according to media reports.

The measures included boosting vaccinations, encouraging and sharing knowledge of wearing a face mask, providing hand basins in the markets, spraying disinfectant, and continuously publishing related information, announcements, notices, prevention guidance and strategies through media.

Bangkok, Sep 2 (AP/PTI) A court in Myanmar on Friday sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years' imprisonment with labour after finding her guilty of election fraud, adding more jail time to the 17 years she is already serving for other offenses prosecuted by the military government.

The latest verdict also carries potentially significant political consequences for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party by lending support to the government's explicit threats to dissolve it before a new election the military has promised for 2023.

YANGON, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's former State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday has been sentenced to three years in jail for electoral fraud in 2020, increasing her total prison term to 20 years, the Information Team of Myanmar's State Administration Council confirmed on Saturday.

She, along with former President U Win Myint and former Union Minister of Union Government Office U Min Thu, was found guilty of electoral fraud, said the information team.

Aug 19 (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta chief said on Friday he would consider allowing deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be moved to house arrest from prison but only after verdicts in a litany of cases against her have been reached.

Suu Kyi, ousted in a widely condemned military coup last year, was moved to a jail in the capital Naypyitaw in June where she is being held in solitary confinement, the army said. The Nobel laureate and democracy champion, 77, has spent around half of the last three decades under house arrest.

YANGON, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's petrol and diesel prices have risen some 3 percent from the prices a week earlier, before the central bank of Myanmar changed its reference exchange rates, official data showed Tuesday.

On Aug. 5, the central bank changed its reference exchange rates from 1,850 kyats to 2,100 kyats per U.S. dollar, 1,884.3 kyats to 2,148 kyats per euro and 273.81 kyats to 311.13 kyats per Chinese yuan.

YANGON, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar announced the extension of COVID-19 preventive measures until Aug. 31, according to the Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment for COVID-19 on Sunday.

The extension is applied to all COVID-19 restrictions that expired on July 31, except the ones that will be eased, the committee said in a statement.

The statement added that the extension covers all orders, announcements, directives previously issued by respective government organizations and ministries in order to contain COVID-19.

YANGON, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar issued new health guidelines for incoming travelers via airport effective from Monday, according to the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Saturday.

Under the new guidelines, travelers are required to present proof of vaccination with an MOH-approved vaccine and a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR test issued 48 hours before arrival.

Children aged under 12 traveling with fully vaccinated parents or guardians are exempted from the vaccination requirement.

July 25 (Reuters) - Myanmar's ruling military announced on Monday it had executed four democracy activists accused of aiding "terror acts", sparking widespread condemnation of the country's first executions in decades.

Sentenced to death in secretive trials in January and April, the men were accused of helping a civilian resistance movement that has fought the military since last year's coup and bloody crackdown on nationwide protests.