Are formal interactions with China helping legitimise Myan...
June 11 ,2021
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By: Pei-Hua Yu
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi (right) bumps elbows with junta representative Wunna Maung Lwin at a June 8 meeting marking th...
Myanmar junta's solar power bid tests post-coup investor s...
Yangon at night: The junta's solar power tender will be a litmus test on investor sentiment.
Myanmar's junta has launche...
Aung San Suu Kyi faces fresh corruption charges in Myanmar...
June 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar’s deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and other former officials from her government have been hit with fresh corruption ch...
UN warns of ‘mass deaths’ in Myanmar after 100,000 flee fi...
June 10 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A United Nations rights expert has warned of “mass deaths from starvation, disease and exposure” in eastern Myanmar after &...
Asian investors have doubts about Myanmar’s military regim...
June 4 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
When tanks rumbled into Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital, on February 1st, the man who sent them there, Min Aung Hlaing, the com...
International Red Cross head meets Myanmar junta chief in...
June 4 ,2021
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By: Gwen Robinson
Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing has allowed Red Cross head Peter Maurer to visit and meet with him. (Source photos by Reuters and...
Myanmar jails two journalists for ‘spreading false news’
June 4 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A court in military-ruled Myanmar has jailed two journalists under a colonial-era law that was recently revised to make spreading &ldqu...
US confident in Asean’s plan for post-coup Myanmar. Others...
June 3 ,2021
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By: Bhavan Jaipragas
The number two US diplomat on Wednesday said Washington remained confident in Asean’s five-point consensus plan to defuse My...
Dozens of Myanmar Junta soldiers killed in Karen State
June 3 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Fighting between the Myanmar military and a combined force of Karen State-based ethnic armed groups and the Myawaddy People’s Def...
Myanmar violence, hunger and ruin risk deeper refugee cris...
June 2 ,2021
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By: Dominic Faulder
Medical personnel tend to internally displaced people in Myanmar's Karen State following military air strikes in the area, in this ha...
Suu Kyi's inconvenient truth and the origins of Myanmar's...
June 2 ,2021
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By: Toru Takashashi
Demonstrators hold up signs during a protest against the military coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi...
Rise of armed civilian groups in Myanmar fuels fears of fu...
June 2 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A photo issued by Myanmar’s shadow national unity government (NUG) shows People’s Defence Force (PDF) soldiers who have b...
Myanmar extends suspension of international flights till J...
June 1 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar on Sunday extended the suspension period of international commercial flights to the end of June due to the COVID-19 pandemic....
Drop call for Myanmar arms embargo, say 9 Asean members
May 31 ,2021
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By: Nirmal Ghosh
Military personnel in a parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on March 27, 2021. The military seized power in a coup on F...
Myanmar shadow government allies with rebels against milit...
May 31 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A shadow government in Myanmar seeking to reverse the February 1 coup has joined forces with a rebel group to “demolish” mi...
Myanmar coup provides drug traffickers with ideal conditio...
May 29 ,2021
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By: Rupert Stone
Thai narcotics officials arrange bags of methamphetamine pills in Ayutthaya Province in June 2020. © Reuters
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Myanmar: fossil fuel giants cut payments to junta but gas...
Total and Chevron have come under pressure to cut ties with Myanmar’s junta in the wake of the coup in February. Photograph: Go...
Myanmar cardinal calls for end to violence after church at...
May 27 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
This handout photo from local media group Kantarawaddy Times taken and released on May 24, 2021 shows the church in which four people...
Myanmar allows Tinder but axes dissent havens Twitter, Fac...
May 27 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The whitelists for internet access sent out by Myanmar's junta, led by military chief Min Aung Hlaing, include over 750 websites...
Myanmar coup latest: Yangon to suffer 'more explosions,' s...
May 27 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A protester holding a National League for Democracy flag in Yangon, where there were five bomb attacks on Tuesday.&nbs...
US journalist detained in Myanmar while boarding flight ho...
May 25 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Journalists in Myanmar have been caught in the crackdown as the junta tries to tighten control over the flow of information. Photogra...
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