Fighters opposed to Myanmar's military junta burned down a police station in the eastern town of Mobye on Sunday and said they killed at least 13 members of the security forces and captured four, local media said.
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Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared at a court hearing via video conferencing on Monday, the first time her lawyers had seen her since she was detained in the Feb. 1 military coup.
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Myanmar's junta blocked Facebook in the name of ensuring stability on Thursday and activists said at least three people were arrested at a street protest against the coup that ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Swaggering supporters of Myanmar's army chief swung through the streets of Yangon, waving national flags from pickup trucks to cheer on his coup against a democratically elected government.
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YANGON, June 9, 2018 (News Wires) - Myanmar's army and civilian leadership held a rare "national security" meeting day and discussed an internal investigation into the Rohingya crisis in Rakhine state, the president's office said on Saturday.
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Visa Inc. (V) and MasterCard Inc. said payments using mobile phones will help Myanmar reduce the use of cash when wireless networks are rolled out across Southeast Asia's poorest country starting this year.
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“I stand before you today as president of the most powerful nation on Earth, but recognising that, once, the colour of my skin would have denied me the right to vote,” United States President Barack Obama stated during his historic visit to Myanmar. (...)
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A fact-finding mission from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is traveling to Myanmar (Burma) today, Wednesday, 5 September 2012, for ten days to investigate into the recent violence against Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine (...)
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's victory in parliamentary elections is the biggest prize of her political career. But the weekend vote for only a few dozen legislative seats may have sown the seeds of something far more significant — the (...)
YANGON: Here in Myanmar (Burma), where political change has been numbingly slow for a half-century, a new leadership is trying to embrace rapid transition from within. The government has freed political prisoners, held elections (with more on the (...)
Yangon (dpa) – Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi traveled Monday to Myanmar's administrative capital, Naypyidaw, taking her election campaign to the heart of the military-backed government's power base.
Shrugging off a bout of illness that (...)