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The visit will start in Myanmar, which Wang will be the highest-ranking Chinese official to visit since last year’s coup. Source link

Wang Yi will attend a meeting of foreign ministers from the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation group, junta spokesman tells AFP. Source link

Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn urged military rulers not to hold deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi who has been put in solitary confinement, he says she plays a ‘critical role in your country’s return to normalcy’. Source link

Tom Andrews urged 10-member bloc Asean to follow Malaysia’s lead and move from non-interference to ‘non-indifference’ in Myanmar, with much more needing to be done to avoid more death and suffering. Source link

Over 600 Rohingya were arrested trying to reach Malaysia in the past seven months – and activists say desperate conditions in Myanmar and Bangladesh are forcing more to risk the perilous sea voyage. Source link

Saifuddin Abdullah said Asean needed to find new ways to de-escalate Myanmar’s violence or risk the junta writing off the bloc’s resolve to take firm action. Source link

The move will ‘cement the junta’s reputation as among the worst of the worst human rights abusers in Asia’, a rights group says. Source link

Myanmar’s military has likely used air strikes and artillery barrages as “collective punishment” against civilians opposing its coup, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, accusing the junta of war crimes. Source link

The 25,000-strong UWSA is one of the world’s largest non-state militaries – so far it has had little involvement in the fighting sparked by the toppling of Aung San Suu Kyi’s government by the military last year. Source link

Also in April, the Myanmar military said it had reached an agreement with the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) to establish a pipeline project through India or China to import energy from Russia. There are plans for the Thanlyin oil refinery and reservoir gate in Yangon to be upgraded as …