Will supplementary elections be held in Myanmar’s Rakhine...
January 12 ,2021
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By: Sebastian Strangio
Last week, Myanmar’s military issued a statement again calling for supplementary elections to be held in areas of Rakhine State w...
China, Myanmar sign MoU on feasibility study of Mandalay-K...
January 12 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
China and Myanmar signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Sunday to conduct feasibility study of a railway linking Mandalay, the...
China seeks to shore up its influence in Myanmar
January 11 ,2021
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By: Larry Jagan
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi is scheduled to arrive in Myanmar on Monday on a critical two-day visit. It is intended to further str...
Facebook urged to prevent Myanmar army campaign
January 11 ,2021
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By: SM Najmus Sakib
A Rohingya rights group strengthened its demands Saturday for Facebook to stop the Burmese military from using its platform to recruit...
Ethical minefields: The dirty business of doing deals with...
January 9 ,2021
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By: Htwe Htwe Thein
Myanmar’s transition from five decades of military rule is a work in progress.
Despite the junta’s formal dissolution in 2...
Suu Kyi announces reboot to Myanmar peace process
January 8 ,2021
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By: Sebastian Strangio
In a New Year’s address to the nation on January 1, Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi promised to take a new appro...
Kirin fails to dispel doubts on military-linked Myanmar pa...
Myanmar Brewery, a joint venture between Kirin and Myanma Economic Holdings, is the dominant beer company in the southeast Asian...
Myanmar’s new parliament to convene on Feb. 1
January 8 ,2021
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By: San Yamin Aung
Myanmar’s newly elected Parliament, the second assembly dominated by the National League for Democracy (NLD), will convene on Feb...
Why Joe Biden should help the Rohingya people of Myanmar
January 7 ,2021
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By: Matthew Smith and Andrew Riley
A large group of Rohingya people, fled from ongoing military operations in Myanmar's Rakhine state, try to cross the border at Palong...
Myanmar police arrest nearly 100 Rohingya in raid on house
January 7 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar police arrested nearly 100 ethnic Rohingya on Wednesday (Jan 6) after raiding a house in the commercial capital of Yangon, poli...
Myanmar navy’s quick march
January 6 ,2021
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By: Mohammad Abdur Razzak
The Myanmar navy celebrated its 73rd anniversary on December 24, 2020 with the commissioning of its first-ever submarine, two 63-metre...
Thai PTTEP set to invest $2bn in Myanmar gas fields and po...
January 6 ,2021
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By: Yuichi Nitta
As urbanization and industrialization moved forward in Myanmar, hydroelectric power, which had previously been the main domestic powe...
Myanmar’s NLD, Mon Unity Party fail to meet due to venue d...
January 6 ,2021
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By: Zin Lin Htet
A planned meeting between delegations of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and the Mon Unity Party (MUP) to discuss building a de...
Myanmar industrial parks offer precious infrastructure to...
January 4 ,2021
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By: Yuichi Nitta
The 225-hectare Korea-Myanmar Industrial Complex north of Yangon will cost around $110 million
South Korean state-linked...
Myanmar conflict zones kept offline despite Suu Kyi digita...
Myanmar authorities began strengthening their grip over the nation's cyberspace in March, with directives to mobile operato...
Trash pickup takes a quantum spin in Myanmar's biggest cit...
January 4 ,2021
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By: Yuichi Nitta
Sanitation workers pick up garbage in Yangon, Myanmar. The nation's crowded commercial capital is looking for the most efficient way...
The UK should join the ICJ case against the Myanmar genoci...
January 2 ,2021
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By: Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
The ongoing case on behalf of the Rohingya people at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Myanmar for genocide has been ini...
Myanmar insurgents say they released ruling party politici...
January 2 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Insurgents from western Myanmar on Friday released three ruling party politicians who had been kidnapped from conflict-torn Rakhine sta...
Argentina is taking a unique route to try Myanmar's leader...
December 31 ,2020
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By: Arunav Kaul
In a landmark judgment delivered in May earlier this year, the Argentinian Federal Court of Appeals reversed a previous verdict and dec...
The Tatmadaw’s role in Myanmar’s new politics
December 31 ,2020
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By: Amara Thiha
Myanmar has transitioned into a quasi-democratic administration by completing the seven-step road map laid down by the military regime...
Singapore firm taking Myanmar military conglomerate to cou...
December 30 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Rothmans Myanmar Holdings Singapore (RMHS), a Singapore-based tobacco company, has announced that it is taking legal action against its...
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