On December 9, 2022, U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announced sanctions against several individuals and entities involved in corruption, conflict-related sexual violence and human rights abuses...
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Huaxia Eye Hospital IPO Mints China’s Latest Billionaire
A man walks by the gate of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on August 20, 2020. (Photo by VCG/VCG via … [+] Getty Images) VCG via Getty Images It’s been a rough stretch this year for China stocks owi...
Exiled Myanmar democratic leaders want to issue CBDC to fund the revolution
Half a year after the military junta in Myanmar revealed its plans to launch a digital currency, the country’s government, ousted in a coup in 2021, voiced its own intention to launch one using frozen...
Myanmar Government Making Efforts to Issue CBDC Soon
44 seconds ago | 2 mins read Altcoin News Federal Reserve Bank of New York has frozen funds since February 2021. The funds are essential for the country’s “revolutionary efforts” as per Minister. The ...
Exiled Myanmar gov’t asks US for $1B in frozen funds to issue crypto
Myanmar’s ousted government has asked the US Federal Reserve to release $1 billion of its frozen funds in a bid to create a new central bank and issue its own crypto, Bloomberg reports. Since February...
How The Military Junta Diminished The Right To A Fair Trial And The Rule Of Law In Myanmar
On September 2, 2022, the United Kingdom’s former ambassador to Myanmar Vicky Bowman, and her husband Htein Lin, prominent artist and former political prisoner, have each been sentenced to one y...
Why Not Extend Permanent Safe Haven?
COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH – SEPTEMBER 13 : A Rohingya Muslim woman, fled from ongoing military … [+] operations in Myanmars Rakhine state, gets off a boat while fleeing to a temporary ...
Myanmar’s Military Junta Executes Three Pro-Democracy Activists And Former Lawmaker
Topline Myanmar’s government on Monday announced the executions of four pro-democracy activists—including a former lawmaker—claiming they engaged in terrorist activities and carried out killings, a mo...
International Court Of Justice Proceeds With The Case Against Myanmar
On July 22, 2022, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, has delivered its judgment on the preliminary objections raised by the Republic of the U...
Press Freedom Under Increasing Pressure Globally
On May 3, 2022, for the World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published their annual World Press Freedom Index, which assesses the state of journalism in 180 countries and territori...
Ousted Myanmar Leader Suu Kyi Sentenced To Five Years In Prison For Corruption
Topline A Myanmar court on Wednesday sentenced ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in prison in the first of several corruption cases brought against her by the country’s military junta that...
Determination Of The Genocide Against The Rohingyas- A Step Toward Truth, Accountability, And Future
On March 21, 2022, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken formally recognized the atrocities against the Rohingyas as genocide and crimes against humanity, during his visit to the United States Holocaus...
Crypto Offers Alternative Funding, Stability for Myanmar Exiles
Amid exile and economic meltdown, Myanmar’s democratic government has embraced cryptocurrency in its effort to raise $1 billion in support. The National Unity Government (NUG) has effectively been Mya...
Myanmar Junta Plans To Kickstart Its Own Digital Currency – Bane Or Boon?
Tether became an official currency in Myanmar’s shadow government in the middle of December of last year. The country’s ruling junta proposed a cryptocurrency ban as a way to combat this. Even though ...
Myanmar Junta Wants Own Digital Currency After Government in Exile Pushes Tether
A military government is proposing creating its own digital currency a year after overthrowing the democratically elected leader. What could go wrong? Major General Zaw Min Tun, deputy information mi...
Myanmar government plans to introduce digital currency to boost its economy
According to Bloomberg, Myanmar’s military government is planning to introduce its own digital currency in the region to bolster its economic prosperity. As sources report, a top spokesperson at the S...
One Year Of The Military Junta In Power In Myanmar
On February 1, 2021, the Burmese military stages a coup and took over Myanmar. What followed can only be described as brutal crackdown to suppress opposition to its rule, including mass killings, tort...
Myanmar Military Government Proposes to Jail Digital Currency and VPN Users – Regulation Bitcoin News
Myanmar’s military-ruled government is proposing to enact laws that will see users of virtual private networks (VPN) and digital currencies being jailed for up to three years. In addition, offenders w...
Myanmar junta crackdown on cryptocurrencies
TL;DR Breakdown Myanmar junta places ban on cryptocurrencies. Violators of ban to face 6 months to1 year prison sentence. Myanmar locals against ban on cryptocurrencies. The Myanmar military junta has...
Myanmar Democracy Group Look to Tether After Failure of Myanmar Dollar Project
As the military seized control of the issuance of currency in Myanmar in 2021, the citizens responded by taking to the stablecoin Tether for peer-to-peer transactions and cross-border remittances. A r...
People Of Myanmar Face Unprecedented Crisis In 2022, The U.N. Warns
The U.N. is sounding the alarm on the situation in Myanmar. According to a recent U.N. report, the people of Myanmar are facing an unprecedented crisis in 2022: political, socioeconomic, human rights ...