Myanmar Military conglomerate shifts HQ to capital amid Ju...
March 5 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
One of MEHL's subsidiaries, Myawaddy Trading Limited, on Yangon's Strand Road. / The Irrawaddy
The Myanmar military regime is buil...
How Myanmar’s Gen Z flash mobs evade soldiers to protest a...
March 4 ,2022
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By: Min Ye Kyaw
A flash mob protest in downtown Yangon on February 26, 2022. Photo: Octopus/ Facebook
For Myanmar’s ruling junta, an id...
Myanmar question is forcing ASEAN to remake itself
March 1 ,2022
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By: Ben Bland
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, center, delivers his press statement following ASEAN leaders' meeting in Jakarta in April 2021: str...
The complexities of post-coup Myanmar
February 28 ,2022
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By: Htun Aung Gyaw
A member of the Karenni People's Defense Force holds a homemade gun adorned with the words 'Spring Revolution' in Burmese script as h...
Rights advocates urge nations to halt jet fuel supplies t...
February 26 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
More than 1,560 civilians have been killed by the Myanmar security forces since February last year. (Reuters)
Some human rights ad...
Wa an early winner of Myanmar’s post-coup war
February 24 ,2022
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By: Anthony Davis
UWSA special force snipers participate in a military parade in the Wa State's Panghsang, April 17, 2019. Photo: AFP / Ye Aung Thu...
EU slaps sanctions on top Myanmar officials, gas firm
February 23 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
More than 1,500 civilians have been tortured to death or killed in the violence, many of them in attacks in rural areas by security f...
China, Russia and Serbia 'supplying arms' to Myanmar junta
February 23 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
At least 1,500 civilians have been killed and over 300,000 people have been displaced since the coup, according to activists. (Reuter...
Myanmar junta to replace Suu Kyi in case over alleged geno...
February 22 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Aung San Suu Kyi addresses judges of the International Court of Justice on December 11, 2019. File photo: AP
Myanmar’s junta...
Myanmar junta rejects push for new Asean envoy to meet opp...
February 22 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn, new special envoy for Asean. Photo: AP
Myanmar’s government has criticised call...
A no-fly zone won’t fly in Myanmar
February 21 ,2022
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By: Andrew Selth
This has in turn led to louder and more frequent calls for the imposition of a no-fly zone over Myanmar, policed by foreign p...
Mitsubishi Corp. to offload interest in Myanmar gas field
February 19 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Leading Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp. plans to shed its stake in a Myanmar gas project.
TOKYO -- Trading house Mits...
Myanmar junta’s role in Rohingya case at ICJ is troubling
February 19 ,2022
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By: Parvej Siddique Bhuiyan
The Palace of Peace in The Hague, the official residency of the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration...
Myanmar’s military numbers
February 18 ,2022
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By: Andrew Selth
Myanmar junta military soldiers parade during a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the country’s Union Day in Naypyidaw o...
ASEAN fails to achieve Myanmar breakthrough again
February 18 ,2022
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By: Masuyuki Yuda
Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah, Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., Singapore's Foreign...
China rolls dice with Myanmar's military, sidelines NUG
China backs Myanmar's military regime while also keeping in touch with pro-democracy groups. (Nikkei montage/AP)
YANGON/TAIPE...
Rohingya Militancy: Myth or Reality?
February 17 ,2022
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By: Shafi Md Mostofa
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), a Rohingya militant group, came to global attention once again last year after unknown gunme...
A precarious ceasefire in Myanmar needs international supp...
February 16 ,2022
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By: Md. Mufassir Rashid
Dhaka: Since the military coup on 1 February 2021, Myanmar’s Rakhine State has remained relatively stable and long-standing ethni...
Myanmar military committed war crimes in Karenni state: Re...
February 16 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
The Myanmar military has murdered civilians, and used them as human shields, in a series of atrocities in eastern Karenni State that ma...
Kirin to exit Myanmar beer market over human rights
February 15 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar Brewery is 51% owned by Japanese brewer Kirin, which decided to unwind its partnership with a military-owned company aft...
The man who could tame Myanmar's notoriously stubborn junt...
February 14 ,2022
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By: Sholto Byrnes
An anti-military government protest rally in Mandalay, Myanmar, last week. AP Photo
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