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A massive narco-army backed by China is angling for more power in Myanmar
Myanmar's already prickly ceasefire negotiations became even more complex last week.On Tuesday, leaders of the country's ethnic armed groups (EAGs) involved in the talks announced that they're...
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The 12 most corrupt countries in the world
The recent FIFA scandal shone a spotlight on the prevalence of global corruption.A recent report from Verisk Maplecroft, a risk analysis and forecasting company, now identifies where similar...
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The State Department reportedly ignored its own experts and watered down a...
In the weeks leading up to a critical annual U.S. report on human trafficking that publicly shames the world’s worst offenders, human rights experts at the State Department concluded that trafficking...
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Myanmar has evacuated thousands of people as the worst floods in decades hit...
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar was evacuating parts of a city on Wednesday after mudslides wiped away hundreds of houses and torrential rain threatened further damage in the worst floods to hit the country...
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These are STRATFOR's disconcerting predictions for the end of 2015
As we move into the final months of the year, credibility is on the line in many parts of the globe.The United States knew its credibility with Middle Eastern allies would be at stake as Washington...
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Myanmar is sitting on a $31 billion jade industry
Bangkok (AFP) - Myanmar's secretive jade industry is worth an estimated $31 billion, far higher than official accounts, with most profits going to powerful military and ex-junta figures instead of the...
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Activists claim that the international community is standing by and watching...
The international community has been accused of "standing by and watching the genocide against the Rohingya" rather than change its policy on Myanmar.A report published on Thursday (29 October) by...
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A pro-democracy party led by a Nobel Peace Prize winner just scored a...
YANGON/HINTHADA, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's ruling party conceded defeat in the country's general election on Monday as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on course...
View ArticleThe most charitable country in the world is not the US
The Charities Aids Foundation has released its 2015 World Giving index, a yearly report of the most charitable countries.This year, the US was overtaken as the number one charitable nation by a...
View ArticleThis woman spent her life fighting for democracy in Myanmar — now she's its...
Aung San Suu Kyi spent most of her life fighting to get Myanmar democracy — she even spent 15 years under house arrest.Now she's the nation's leader. Suu Kyi is the head of the National League for...
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Instead of jade, Myanmar's gem scavengers are finding heroin and destitution
Unsuccessful jade scavengers in Myanmar seeking to assuage their despair are swelling a tide of drug abuse in Kachin state that presents a challenge for the untested government of Nobel laureate Aung...
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New mining laws provide an opportunity this Southeast Asian country
Great start to the year for one of the world’s best up-and-coming mining spots.Myanmar.Late in December, lawmakers in the country signed new amendments to the national Mining Law. Which look set to...
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The world is running out of time to eliminate one of its deadliest diseases
WANG PHA, Thailand— Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo hasn’t seen a malaria case in five days. That’s not so unusual anymore at the clinic he runs in this small town just on the Thai side of the border with Myanmar,...
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi avoids 'rocking boat' with military ahead of handover
NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar election winner Aung San Suu Kyi will not press for an immediate change to the constitution that bars her from becoming president, and will instead appoint a ceremonial...
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New era dawns as Suu Kyi's party strides into Myanmar parliament
Naypyidaw (Myanmar) (AFP) - Aung San Suu Kyi will lead her party into a new session of Myanmar's parliament Monday, with lofty expectations that the first popularly-elected government in decades can...
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2016's biggest natural-gas discovery is growing by the day
International natural gas is shaping up as one of 2016’s most interesting spots in energy. Given that prices in many world markets are still running high, even as valuations for E&Ps subside.And...
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10 photos show why Myanmar's Ngapali Beach was rated the best in Asia by...
Many of us dream of escaping to a beach with white sand, clear water, and a tropical climate. Myanmar's Ngapali Beach, which has just been named the best beach in Asia by TripAdvisor users, has all...
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Historic vote ends a half-century of military rule in Myanmar
Myanmar's parliament elected a close friend and confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San SuuKyi as president on Tuesday, making Htin Kyaw the first head of state who does not hail from a military...
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Report: The UN failed to protect one of Southeast Asia's most persecuted...
The United Nations failed to protect the human rights of the persecuted Rohingya minority in Myanmar, according to documents leaked to VICE News.The papers also indicate that UN officials on the ground...
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China is beefing up its military ties in a bid for South China Sea stability
China has vowed to beef up military cooperation with several Southeast Asian nations after the US announced it was lifting a decades-old ban on the sale of lethal military equipment to Vietnam.The...
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