Head of Myanmar’s military government begins peace talks w...
May 23 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar’s Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing presides over an army parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw in Ma...
Myanmar’s resistance is at risk of believing its own propa...
May 21 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
To spend time on Burmese social media or online news sites is to think the end is near for Myanmar’s military junta, which s...
Myanmar Junta Threatens to Downgrade Australia Ties Over S...
May 21 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar regime leader Min Aung Hlaing
YANGON—Myanmar’s junta on Thursday threatened to downgrade diplomatic ties w...
Burmese civilians are caught between the junta and the res...
May 21 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
When moe moe and hundreds of thousands of public-sector workers just like her went on strike after the Burmese army launched a cou...
How ASEAN's failed 'Five-point consensus' has let down the...
May 20 ,2022
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By: Khin Nadi
A woman prepares a placard out of crossed out portraits of Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing during protest agains...
Malaysia shows Asean new options in tackling Myanmar crisi...
May 20 ,2022
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By: Tan Hui Yee
On May 14, Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah met his counterpart Zin Mar Aung from Myanmar's shadow National Unity Govern...
‘Godfather’ of Myanmar’s crony capitalists dies
May 19 ,2022
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By: Dominic Oomay
The Myanmar Times, which Thein Tun took over in 2014 and ran until its closure. It was the first independent English-language newspap...
Myanmar junta to reopen borders to tourists
May 13 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
A view of the India-Myanmar border in Champhai village, in Mizoram, India. (Representational image only.) | Photo Credit: AP
The c...
Diplomatic snubs isolate Myanmar's military regime
May 10 ,2022
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By: Gwen Robinson
A number of countries have downgraded their diplomatic representation in Myanmar, led by its military chief, Min Aung Hlaing.&nb...
ASEAN’s consensus failure in Myanmar
May 9 ,2022
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By: David Hutt
Myanmar's anti-junta protesters have not appreciated ASEAN's role in the crisis. Photo: Twitter
Could it have finally been the beg...
Meanwhile in Myanmar
April 30 ,2022
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By: Mohammad Abdur Razzak
Military hardware is displayed during a parade to celebrate Myanmar's 77th Armed Forces Day in Naypyidaw on 27 March 2022AFP
While...
Open letter warns China of attacks on projects in Myanmar
April 29 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
More than 500 civil and political organizations have warned China of possible attacks on its investments in Myanmar if Beijing maintain...
Myanmar junta court delays verdict in Suu Kyi corruption t...
April 26 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
A Myanmar court is scheduled to deliver a verdict in the first of multiple corruption cases against Aung San Suu Kyi. PHOTO: A...
Thai soldiers are forcing refugees to return to Myanmar
April 26 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
If you do not leave by tomorrow morning, we will burn your encampment to the ground, the Thai soldiers told Htun May (not her real...
Myanmar announces exemptions from forex order; eyes new en...
April 25 ,2022
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By: Kang Wan Chern
Myanmar's local currency has fluctuated between 1,300 kyats and 2,000 kyats to the dollar in the past year. PHOTO: REUTERS
SI...
Myanmar activists raising millions via Singapore to fight...
April 23 ,2022
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By: Tan Hui Yee
Medical students, doctors and engineers march in Yangon, Myanmar to protest against the military coup, on Feb 26, 2021. PHOTO: N...
As the focus on Myanmar fades Ukraine takes the spotlight
April 22 ,2022
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By: Kristina Kironska
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the illegal military takeover on 1 February 2021. Though the military continues to commit crimes agai...
Myanmar’s de-dollarization looks like financial suicide
April 21 ,2022
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By: Bertil Lintner
A Myanmar man counts local kyat notes at a market in Yangon on April 19, 2017. Photo: AFP / Roberto Schmidt
CHIANG MAI – Aft...
Prophecies, Rituals, and resistance in Myanmar
April 20 ,2022
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By: Naw Theresa
March 31 marked the end of Tabaung, the last month in the Burmese calendar. Tabaung usually overlaps with March and isn’t the mos...
Myanmar jailed more writers in 2021 than any other country...
April 18 ,2022
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By: Rebecca Ratcliffe
Soldiers stand next to military vehicles in the Myanmar capital, Naypyidaw, as people gather to protest against the military coup in...
India’s frontier districts bordering Myanmar to remain und...
April 16 ,2022
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By: Rajeev Bhattacharyya
Protest in Manipur State against fake confrontations. / Credit – Rajeev Bhattacharyya
Restive districts in India that border...
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