As Covid-19 case hits Blinken trip, Myanmar may offer path...
December 17 ,2021
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By: Jitsiree Thongnoi
Thai PM Prayuth Chan-ocha. Photo: Reuters
The cancellation of a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Thailand&nbs...
Hundreds seek safety in Thailand after Myanmar junta clash...
December 17 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A Thai government official in Tak province said 700 people had crossed the border, and would be given food and shelter. (Reuters)...
Myanmar journalist reported to have died in military custo...
December 15 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Ko Soe Naing is the first journalist known to have died in custody since the army seized power in February [Reporters Without Borde...
Myanmars divided state leaves thousands of its people in t...
December 15 ,2021
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By: Hunter Marston
More than ten months after the coup and a protracted conflict that has produced a political and military stalemate, the struggle in Mya...
U.S. weighing more action on Myanmar, 'genocide' label: Bl...
December 15 ,2021
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By: P Prem Kumar
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, is hosted by Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah on Dec. 15. (Photo co...
Myanmar shadow government approves crypto as official curr...
December 15 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar's National Unity Government (NUG) has approved the use of a stablecoin called Tether as official currency [File: Shannon Stap...
Cost of war: Myanmar rebels crowdfund resistance to milita...
December 14 ,2021
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By: Andrew Nachemson
Protesters take part in a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon on July 3, 2021. (Photo by STR / AFP) (AFP)
Bangkok, T...
Can Facebook be blamed for pogroms against Rohingyas in My...
December 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Report
That facebook was used to spread rhetoric that incited carnage in Myanmar is hardly up for debate. According to the lead author of...
Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing accused of crimes against humani...
December 11 ,2021
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By: Ted Regencia
Since the coup, at least 1,305 people, including more than 75 children, have been killed dueto the military crackdown on anti-coup pr...
Myanmar to end Kirin row based on law: investment minister
December 11 ,2021
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By: Yuichi Nitta
Myanmar's Investment and Foreign Economic Relations Minister Aung Naing Oo said in an Dec. 8 interview that he hopes Japan will resta...
Myanmar’s generals want Aung San Suu Kyi locked up forever
December 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The guilty verdicts that a court in Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital, handed down to Aung San Suu Kyi on December 6th were both...
Dangerous data: Telenor’s irresponsible exit from Myanmar...
December 10 ,2021
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By: Lucy Purdon & Patrick Phongsathorn
The daughter of a protester who died in March 2021 during a demonstration against Myanmar’s military coup, cries during her fat...
Meta bans all military-linked Myanmar companies
December 9 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Over a hundred social media pages in Myanmar have been taken down including Myawaddy Trading Ltd, Myawaddy Bank and Myanma Beer. (Reu...
Suu Kyi’s conviction signals junta’s rising confidence
December 9 ,2021
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By: Anna B Plunkeit
A banner featuring Aung San Suu Kyi is displayed on February 15 as protesters demonstrating against the military coup surround police...
Motives behind the soft-line approaches to the Myanmar cou...
December 8 ,2021
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By: Annabelle Heugas
Following the military coup in Myanmar on 1 February 2021, Western countries were quick to express their condemnation and discuss s...
Myanmar military joining hands with Indian rebels
December 8 ,2021
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By: Bertil Lintner
Naga rebels in Myanmar's northwestern Sagaing Region in October 2018. Photo: Facebook
CHIANG MAI: When separatist rebels launched...
Kirin seeks arbitration to end venture with Myanmar milita...
December 7 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Kirin hopes to keep operating in Myanmar after dissolving its joint venture with the Myanmar military. (Source photo by AP and Reuter...
Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to four years in prison for inc...
December 7 ,2021
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By: Rebecca Ratcliffe
Aung San Suu Kyi Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images
Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to four years in pri...
Five dead after Myanmar security forces ram car into Yango...
December 6 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
An injured protester lies on a stretcher after Yangon protest. Photo: AFP
Five people were killed and at least 15 arrested after M...
About half of Myanmar's population may sink into poverty i...
December 2 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The World Bank, which before the coup projected economic growth in Myanmar despite Covid-19, now forecasts the economy to contract by...
Myanmar troops' northwest push fuels humanitarian crisis
December 2 ,2021
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By: Marwaan Macan-Markar
A man holds up a photo of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a demonstration on Nov. 19 organized in New Delhi by the Chin R...
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