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AP Week in Pictures: Asia

Mar. 29, 2024 04:47 AM EDT

March 22-28, 2024 Lawyers file a lawsuit against the presidential election results in Indonesia, Thailand tries to help displaced people in Myanmar, and the Myanmar military holds the annual Armed Forces Day parade. Christian, Muslim and Buddhist devotees participate...

Myanmar's military makes its annual parade of strength despite unprecedented battlefield losses

Mar. 28, 2024 01:35 AM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar’s ruling military council marked Armed Forces Day on Wednesday with a speech claiming that the nation’s youth were being tricked into supporting the resistance against army rule, and that ethnic armed groups allied with the resistance engage in drug...

Thailand sends aid to war-torn Myanmar, but critics say it will only help junta

Mar. 25, 2024 07:11 AM EDT

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Thailand delivered its first batch of humanitarian aid to war-torn Myanmar on Monday, in what officials hope will be a continuing effort to ease the plight of millions of people displaced by fighting. But critics charge that the aid will benefit only people...

Indonesia's rescue of Rohingya refugees at sea is a reminder of an ordeal that began in Myanmar

Mar. 21, 2024 21:08 PM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — A dramatic story of survival and rescue off the western coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province has put the spotlight again on the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar who make extremely dangerous voyages across the Indian Ocean to seek better lives. ...

Weeping, weak and soaked, dozens of Rohingya refugees rescued after night on hull of capsized boat

Mar. 21, 2024 07:56 AM EDT

MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian search and rescue ship on Thursday located a capsized wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees, and began pulling survivors who had been standing on its hull to safety. An AP photographer aboard the rescue ship...

As Myanmar's army faces setbacks, it is stepping up attacks on civilians, a UN expert warns

Mar. 20, 2024 12:57 PM EDT

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Myanmar's military government is escalating violence against civilians as it faces more setbacks on the battlefield from a range of pro-democracy and ethnic armed groups, a U.N.-backed independent expert on human rights warned Wednesday. Resistance to...

A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees capsizes off Indonesia's coast

Mar. 20, 2024 08:43 AM EDT

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims capsized off Indonesia’s northernmost coast on Wednesday, according to local fishermen who rescued six people. The survivors said more people were still on the boat. There were no immediate reports of...

No bidders in court-ordered auction of house where Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi was detained for years

Mar. 20, 2024 04:42 AM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — No bidders appeared at a court-ordered auction Wednesday of the family home of Myanmar's imprisoned former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, where she had been held under house arrest for nearly 15 years, legal officials said. Many in Myanmar view the house as a historical...

UN's Guterres decries violence in Myanmar as military airstrikes kill at least 25 Rohingya in west

Mar. 19, 2024 21:06 PM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — Military airstrikes in western Myanmar killed at least 25 members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority, including children, local media reported, prompting the U.N. chief to express concerns over the escalating violence. According to the reports, the...

In northern Myanmar, Kachin rebels claim attacks on army outposts as offensive gathers pace

Mar. 07, 2024 11:16 AM EST

BANGKOK (AP) — A rebel group in Myanmar’s northern state of Kachin said its troops on Thursday attacked more than 10 army outposts along the main road to the state capital of Myitkyina, increasing the pressure on the military government from pro-democracy resistance forces and ethnic minority...