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Myanmar's leader reiterates that her government will not use the term 'Rohingya'
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights that the government will avoid using the term "Rohingya" to describe a persecuted Muslim minority...
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One of Asia’s most abusive armies now deploys armed drones
In 2016, practically no nation is too impoverished or dysfunctional to acquire killer flying robots.Case in point: Myanmar. The war-ravaged nation is now believed to own a dozen-odd drones armed with...
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These are STRATFOR's disconcerting predictions for the third-quarter of 2016
The Brexit referendum, and the fallout from it, will be among the most heavily scrutinized themes of the next quarter. And though it may have been the most visible confirmation of the European Union's...
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Myanmar is cracking down on Buddhist extremism directed at Muslims
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar is cracking down on Buddhist extremism, aiming to curb ethnic and religious tension that saw two mosques destroyed and scores of Muslim residents fleeing their villages in...
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Myanmar earthquake kills three, damages scores of ancient temples
YANGON (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake shook central Myanmar on Wednesday, killing at least three people including two children, and damaging scores of centuries-old Buddhist pagodas around the...
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Myanmar jailed a man for calling the president 'crazy' on Facebook
Yangon (AFP) - A man has been jailed for nine months after calling Myanmar's president "crazy" in a Facebook post, his wife said Friday, in the latest use of a junta-era defamation law under the new...
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Myanmar repeals emergency law used for decades to silence activists and...
Yangon, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Myanmar has abolished one of the most authoritarian laws used by previous military regimes to silence political opponents, a lawmaker said on Tuesday.The Emergency Provisions...
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Obama lifts US sanctions on Myanmar
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday lifted U.S. economic sanctions on the former pariah state of Myanmar.Obama's move marks the culmination of years of rapprochement between the U.S. and...
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Terrified residents flee northern Myanmar as military crackdown follows...
Sit twe (Myanmar) (AFP) - Terrified residents were fleeing northern Myanmar on Friday, thousands leaving on foot and others airlifted out by helicopter, as troops hunted through torched villages for...
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Miners have uncovered a gigantic jade stone worth $170 million
A mammoth-sized chunk of jade stone has been unearthed in Burma, the southeast Asian country also known as Myanmar.The discovery was made in a remote mine in Kachin State in the north of the country....
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'Recipe for disaster': Myanmar wants to arm and train non-Muslims to counter...
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's plans to arm and train non-Muslim residents in the troubled north of Rakhine State is likely to "aggravate an already dire human rights situation", the International...
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No reported injuries after three bombs exploded at a supermarket in Myanmar
YANGON (Reuters) - Three bombs exploded at a supermarket in Myanmar's largest city Yangon on Sunday evening, causing limited damage and no injuries, the Ministry of Information said on its official...
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UN: Myanmar is pursuing an 'ethnic cleansing' of Rohingya Muslims
Teknaf (Bangladesh) (AFP) - Myanmar is carrying out "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims, a UN official has reportedly said, as horrifying stories of gang rape, torture and murder emerge from among...
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How a rebel Myanmar tin mine may up-end a global supply chain
YANGON/WASHINGTON — From a remote corner of northeastern Myanmar, an insurgent army sells tin ore to suppliers of some of the world's largest consumer companies.More than 500 companies, including...
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China is sabotaging itself in Southeast Asia
A little over a month since the signing of a tentative peace agreement, fresh violence has broken out in Myanmar. The 21st Century Panglong Conference was supposed to help bring an end to decades of...
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A genocide is in the making in Southeast Asia
Last fall, Burmese voters elected their first democratic government in half a century. That inspired hope that the country’s long history of violence and oppression was finally taking a turn from the...
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21,000 Rohingya Muslims are fleeing Myanmar to escape 'genocide'
Around 21,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh in recent weeks to escape violence in neighbouring Myanmar, an official of the International Organisation for Migration said on Tuesday.Bangladesh has...
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A scientist snuck into a disputed region of Myanmar to discover the first...
Scientists recently found a feathered, 99 million-year-old dinosaur tail preserved in a chunk of amber from a mine in Myanmar.Researchers have known for about two decades that many dinosaurs (not just...
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'It's like freedom': Myanmar is loosening the muzzle of censorship, and...
Yangon (AFP) — Moshing and sweating, the crowd of headbangers scream their angst into the sultry Yangon night, a rare glimpse of a defiant musical subculture now crashing into the open — though sex,...
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