Myanmar: CoronaVirus Meter

Canadian pastor guilty of defying Myanmar's coronavirus law

5d | ABC

A court in Myanmar has sentenced the Canadian pastor of a evangelical church to three months imprisonment after finding him ...

Canadian Pastor Jailed In Myanmar For Defying Coronavirus Ban

5d | International Business Times

A Canadian preacher who claimed Christians were safe from coronavirus was on Thursday jailed for three months in Myanmar ...

Canadian pastor who claimed that Christians were immune to COVID-19 sentenced to prison in Myanmar for defying coronavirus ban

4d | New York Daily News

Myanmar-born David Lah violated the country's coronavirus restrictions by holding religious services and posting them online.

Myanmar relatively unscathed as COVID-19 cases rise across Asia

4d | globalpulsemagazine.com

Despite its poor healthcare system, the conflict-torn country has far fewer infections than other states in the region ...

Christian pastor jailed in Myanmar for flouting coronavirus gathering ban

4d | The Jerusalem Post Blogs

A Canadian evangelical pastor has been sentenced to three months in jail by a court in Myanmar after he was found guilty of ...

Myanmar Pastors Jailed for Defying COVID-19 Restrictions

5d | The Irrawaddy

Pastors Saw Kwae Wah and Saw David Lah were sentenced to three months in prison with hard labor for organizing religious ...

Myanmar Ministry to Probe Whether Pro-Army Video Was Shot in Violation of COVID-19 Ban

5d | The Irrawaddy

After an outcry on social media, the Information Ministry will check to see whether a pro-military video by singer Yone Lay ...

Strategic and COVID-19 Analysis of Myanmar Frozen Food Marke Market

8h | openpr.com

The report Myanmar Frozen Food Market By Product Frozen Fruits and Vegetable Frozen Meat and Fish Frozen Cooked Ready Meals ...

COVID-19 Addendum to the 2020 Myanmar Humanitarian Response Plan (April - December 2020)

25d | ReliefWeb

To counter this threat, the challenges and risks associated with COVID-19 in humanitarian settings in Myanmar requires the urgent mobilization of prevention and response preparedness measures.

Slade Property Services Releases COVID-19 Myanmar Property Sector Briefs

4d | Digital Journal

Slade Property Services, the leading real estate consultancy in Yangon, releases a series of real estate market briefs that ...

Christian pastor jailed in Myanmar for flouting coronavirus gathering ban

4d | The Jerusalem Post Blogs

A Canadian evangelical pastor has been sentenced to three months in jail by a court in Myanmar after he was found guilty of ...

Canadian pastor sentenced to three months in prison for defying Myanmar’s coronavirus law

5d | The Globe and Mail

A court in Myanmar on Thursday sentenced the Canadian pastor of an evangelical church to three months imprisonment after ...

LIVE: WHO says 'vaccine nationalism' cannot beat the coronavirus

5d In Depth | Al Jazeera English

India has recorded the biggest single-day coronavirus fatalities of 904 in the past 24 hours. More than 18.8 million people ...

Myanmar’s small businesses fighting to survive COVID-19

8h | The Myanmar Times

While Myanmar has escaped most of the effects of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, its economy has been roiled by the global crisis. Small businesses across the country, usually with limited cash flow ...

The Rohingya and COVID-19: Towards an inclusive and sustainable policy response

1d | ReliefWeb

English Analysis on Bangladesh about Camp Coordination and Camp Management, Health, Epidemic and more; published on 27 Jul 2020 by ID ...

UNHCR and WFP team up to deliver 20,000 COVID-19 Test Kits to Myanmar [EN/MY]

12d | ReliefWeb

The United Nations family stands in full solidarity with the Government of Myanmar in its response to COVID-19 and is actively supporting its efforts to save lives, and strengthen the national ...

Garment factories are using COVID-19 to crackdown on trade unions

1d | Thomson Reuters Foundation

Factories appear to be using the pandemic as cover to attack workers' basic rights and clamp down on union activity ...

Trump Vows to Issue Executive Orders if Coronavirus Relief Talks Collapse

3d In Depth | New York Times

New York’s governor said schools could reopen for in-person instruction, but he left the details up to the districts. Africa surpasses a million confirmed cases, though the real number may be higher.

Kachins Complain of 'Tax' Collection by Ethnic Armed Group Amid COVID-19

3d | GlobalSecurity.org

A rebel armed ethnic group is taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to extort money from Kachin businesspeople in Myanmar's far north, placing an undue financial burden on locals who already ...

Myanmar Airways International bucks trend with planned growth

4d | Flightglobal

Myanmar Airways International (MAI) is struggling as much as any airline amid the coronavirus pandemic, but chief executive ...

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi confirms contesting for second term

7d | Metro US

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday formally declared her intention to seek a second term in an election in November that is seen as a test of the Southeast Asian nation’s tentative democratic ...

Myanmar approves 7 investment enterprises; no Covid-19 cases for 3 days

8d | The Star

YANGON, Aug 3 (Xinhua): Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) recently approved seven investment enterprises from home and ...

Coronavirus threat is not over: Imran Khan

1d | MSN

Expressing satisfaction over government’s policy of smart lockdown and the public response against coronavirus pandemic, ...

Trump Vows to Issue Executive Orders if Coronavirus Relief Talks Collapse

3d In Depth | New York Times

New York’s governor said schools could reopen for in-person instruction, but he left the details up to the districts. Africa surpasses a million confirmed cases, though the real number may be higher.

Myanmar govt's plan to promote local tourism clashes with COVID-19 preventive measures

1d | The Myanmar Times

August 3 Eid al-Adha long weekend to do a spot of local travel were in for an unpleasant surprise when they arrived at the ...

Organizers Vow to Hold 70th Karen Martyrs’ Day Event Despite Myanmar Police Warning

7h | The Irrawaddy

Karen activists are proceeding with plans to hold a Karen Martyrs’ Day commemoration in Yangon on Wednesday; police say the ...

Myanmar further extends international flight ban to end-August

12d | Flightglobal

Myanmar has further extended a ban on all international flights to the end of August. "In order to continue to [curb] the spread of Covid-19 in Myanmar effectively, the National Central Committee for ...

Myanmar Pastors Jailed for Defying COVID-19 Restrictions

5d | The Irrawaddy

Pastors Saw Kwae Wah and Saw David Lah were sentenced to three months in prison with hard labor for organizing religious ...

Garment workers seen losing up to $5.8 billion in wages during coronavirus

1d | Reuters

Garment workers supplying global fashion brands have been underpaid or not paid at all during the coronavirus crisis, with lost wages potentially amounting to nearly $6 billion, researchers said on ...

Canadian Pastor Jailed in Myanmar for Worshiping during Pandemic

4d | Latin American Herald Tribune

A Canadian evangelical pastor was sentenced on Thursday to three months in jail in Myanmar for celebrating a religious cult in contravention of the restrictions imposed by the government to combat the ...