Arakan Army attacks Myanmar military training school in Ra...
March 25 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
The Arakan Army (AA) launched attacks on an advanced military training school in Minbya Township, Rakhine State, on Monday morning.
Bo...
Myanmar declares Arakan Army a terrorist group
March 25 ,2020
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By: Nyein Nyein
AA leader Major General Tun Myat Naing (M)
The Myanmar government declared the Arakan Army (AA) ethnic armed group to be a ter...
Myanmar in denial with zero Covid-19 case claim
March 24 ,2020
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By: Bertil Lintner
If Myanmar’s nominal leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to be believed, her country stands out as a global exception without a single rep...
Myanmar war killing India’s ‘Act East’ dream
March 23 ,2020
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By: Anthony Davis
Arakan Army soldiers take aim from an undisclosed location in Myanmar
Against the ominous question mark hanging over Myanmar&rsquo...
Bangladesh hands over list of 492,000 Rohingya to Myanmar
March 21 ,2020
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By: Muktadir Rashid
Bangladesh’s foreign minister AK Abdul Momen said on Friday that details of 492,000 Rohingya sheltering in Cox’s Bazar for...
Myanmar closes all land borders to foreigners
March 20 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Wednesday the closure of all border checkpoints to foreign tourists as a preve...
Myanmar’s military accuses NLD of smear campaign after con...
March 19 ,2020
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By: Htet Naing Zaw
Military lawmaker Lt-Col Myot Htet Win
A military lawmaker in Myanmar’s Union Parliament has called for negotiations as a p...
Myanmar court approves defamation case against editor over...
March 18 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
A Myanmar court on Monday accepted a criminal defamation case against an editor nearly a year after the government military filed a law...
21 Killed, many injured as Myanmar military jets open fire...
March 17 ,2020
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By: Nyein Nyein
A total of 21 villagers were killed and about two dozen were injured when Myanmar military fighter jets opened fire on four villages in...
Myanmar Army battalion suffers losses in western campaign
March 17 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
In the sharpest reverse to date in an escalating counter-insurgency campaign in the west of Myanmar, an elite infantry battalion of the...
20 villages abandoned as Arakan Army attacks Myanmar milit...
March 14 ,2020
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By: Min Aung Khine
The monthlong fighting between Myanmar’s military and Arakan Army (AA) to the east of the Kaladan River on the border of Rakhine...
Myanmar fails to clean up its dirty finances
March 13 ,2020
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By: Rory Wallace
A global watchdog’s move to place Myanmar on a list of states perceived as prone to money laundering and terror financing has put...
Myanmar military chief retains special powers as NLD chart...
March 13 ,2020
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By: San Yamin Aung
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing
Myanmar’s military chief will continue to wield special powers during states of emergency af...
Myanmar MPs block Aung San Suu Kyi’s bid to become preside...
March 12 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar’s parliament rejected on Wednesday a proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed the country’s de fac...
Arakan Army claim seizure of Myanmar battalion commander a...
March 12 ,2020
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By: Min Aung Khine
Arakan Army soldiers
The Arakan Army (AA) said on Tuesday that it arrested 20 Myanmar soldiers, including a battalion commander, i...
Myanmar army brings defamation case against lawmaker, Reut...
March 11 ,2020
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By: SAM Report
The Myanmar military has filed a criminal defamation lawsuit against an upper house parliamentarian and Reuters news agency over the co...
Myanmar’s military retains important political role as NLD...
March 11 ,2020
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By: San Yamin Aung
More than a year of effort by the National League for Democracy (NLD) to reduce the political role granted to the Myanmar military unde...
Suu Kyi's party picks preelection fight with Myanmar milit...
March 10 ,2020
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By: Yuichi Nitta
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (center)
The party of Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has pushed ahead with...
$100m in drugs seized in Myanmar raids
March 8 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Sacks of heroin and methamphetamine are laid out in endless rows in a remote Myanmar border zone during a rare raid in the heart of Sou...
Myanmar military helicopter crashes carrying foreign milit...
March 7 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
A Myanmar military helicopter carrying at least 15 people, including foreign military attachés to Myanmar, crashed shortly after...
City of London revokes honour granted to Myanmar's Suu Kyi
March 6 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
The City of London Corporation (CLC) on Thursday revoked an honour granted to Aung San Suu Kyi over the treatment of minority Rohingya...
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