UN envoy holds talks with Cambodia’s Hun Sen, calls on Ase...
January 14 ,2022
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By: Bhavan Jaipragas
Noeleen Heyzer, the United Nations’ newly appointed special envoy for Myanmar. Photo: Handout
The United Nations’...
Hun Sen is right to have visited Myanmar
January 13 ,2022
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By: Bilahari Kausikan
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (left) with Myanmar Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin upon the Cambodian leader’s arrival in N...
Myanmar’s divided State leaves thousands of its people in...
January 11 ,2022
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By: Hunter Marston
CaptionSTR/AFP via Getty Images
More than ten months after the coup and a protracted conflict that has produced a political and mi...
Myanmar court sentences ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to...
January 10 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi. File image.
Suu Kyi was convicted last month on two other charges and given a four-year priso...
Myanmar’s military massacre women, children, charity worke...
January 10 ,2022
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By: Bhavan Jaipragasand & Min Ye Kyaw
Smoke and flames billow from vehicles in Hpruso on December 24. Myanmar government troops rounded up and shot more than 30 villagers...
Myanmar junta leader appears to have conceded little durin...
January 10 ,2022
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By: Tan Hui Yee
Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing (left) with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Naypyitaw on Jan 7, 2022. PHOTO: EPA-EFE...
Cambodian PM Hun Sen meets junta chief on two-day visit to...
January 8 ,2022
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By: Tan Hui Yee
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (left) meets Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (right) during a meeting in Naypyitaw, on Jan 7, 2022....
Fleeing violence in Myanmar, thousands camp along Thai bor...
January 8 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Thousands of Myanmar villagers have been forced to live under makeshift tents alongside a river that borders Thailand, fearful of retur...
Myanmar the new front as U.S.-China tensions simmer on lan...
January 8 ,2022
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By: Michael Vatikiotis
Ta'ang National Liberation army officers, pictured in Mar Wong in January 2015: fighting in northern Shan State over who control...
Myanmar has all ingredients for civil war: ASEAN chair
January 6 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
More than 1,400 people have been killed in a crackdown on dissent by security forces, following last year's coup. (Reuters)
Myanma...
Hun Sen set for Myanmar visit as envoy warns of looming ci...
January 6 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar's military has suggested Hun Sen will not be able to meet detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during his visit [File: S...
India faces double drugs threat from Afghanistan, Myanmar
January 5 ,2022
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By: Rupert Stone
An Afghan man tends to a poppy field in 2014. Political upheaval in Afghanistan and Myanmar last year is threatening n...
‘A normal tactic’: Myanmar’s aid workers vow to press on d...
January 4 ,2022
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By: Rebecca Root
Smokes and flames billow from vehicles in Kayah state, Myanmar, after an attack by the junta on Christmas Eve. Aid workers believe th...
Telenor to divest Wave Money, exit Myanmar mobile banking
January 4 ,2022
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By: Gwen Robinson
Telenor's sale of its stake in Wave Money will be the largest fintech deal in Myanmar since Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing took p...
'We recognise the human rights and citizen rights of the R...
General Twan Mrat Naing Reuters file photo
The Arakan or the Rakhine state of Myanmar is a close neighbour of Bangladesh and...
As US cries ‘genocide’ at China for Xinjiang, its silence...
December 24 ,2021
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By: Maria Siow
Rohingya children wait for food aid at a refugee camp in Bangladesh in 2017 after fleeing the violence in Myanmar. Photo: AP
Why h...
More bodies found after landslide at Myanmar jade mine, sc...
December 24 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Rescuers are seen after a landslide at a jade mine in the Hpakant area of Kachin State, Myanmar. Photo: Reuters
Rescuers in northe...
Myanmar’s NUG warns coup-coddling foreign businesses
December 23 ,2021
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By: Dominic Oo
Anti-coup protesters show their support for Myanmar's National Unity Government. Photo: Jose Lopes Amaral / NurPhoto via AFP
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Luxury jewellers risk funding military abuses in Myanmar:...
December 22 ,2021
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By: SAM Report
A ruby cutter inspects a ruby at his work place in Mogkok on February 28, 2014 [File: Soe Zeya Tun/ Reuters]
An anti-corruption gr...
Shringla to visit Myanmar, in first outreach to military r...
December 22 ,2021
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By: Suhasini Haidar
Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla | Photo Credit: Srikrishnan P.C.
To discuss security concerns, humanitarian aid and d...
Myanmar court postpones verdict in Aung San Suu Kyi trial
December 21 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Aung San Suu Kyi's supporters say the cases against her are baseless and designed to end her political career [File: Ann Wang/Reuters...
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