Myanmar News

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1. Myanmar pledges to provide legal protection for domestic workers abroad

   By rooster59, August 11, 2017
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   • BangkokNicky
   • August 12, 2017

3. Uncle Fatty is going home! Chunky monkey to be released after three months in fat camp

   By snoop1130, August 10, 2017
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   • Ulic
   • August 11, 2017

4. U.N. warns aid workers of rising Buddhist hostility in western Myanmar

   By snoop1130, August 10, 2017
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   • PeCeDe
   • August 11, 2017

5. Massive drug bust close to Chiang Rai border

   By webfact, August 9, 2017
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   • tandor
   • August 9, 2017

6. Myanmar rejects allegations of human rights abuses against Rohingya

   By webfact, August 7, 2017
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   • KIWIBATCH
   • August 7, 2017

7. Exclusive - U.S. presses Myanmar to cease military ties with North Korea

   By rooster59, July 21, 2017
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   • tryasimight
   • July 23, 2017

8. Royal-turned-warlord and opium pioneer of the Golden Triangle: Olive Yang dies aged 90

   By webfact, July 21, 2017
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   • Baerboxer
   • July 22, 2017

9. U.S. urges Myanmar to allow U.N. inquiry into crimes against Rohingya

   By webfact, July 11, 2017
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   • webfact
   • July 11, 2017

10. Myanmar mulls change to law seen as violating free speech - Suu Kyi

    By webfact, July 6, 2017
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    • spidermike007
    • July 7, 2017

11. Jobs to be created for returnees from Thailand

    By webfact, July 7, 2017
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    • webfact
    • July 7, 2017

12. Coal-fuelled cement plant starts operations despite protests by locals

    By rooster59, June 17, 2017
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    • Stargeezr
    • June 18, 2017

13. Facebook bans use of term “kala”

    By rooster59, June 3, 2017
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    • johnarth
    • June 11, 2017

14. Myanmar military aircraft missing after losing communication - military

    By Jonathan Fairfield, June 7, 2017
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    • sawadeeken
    • June 8, 2017

15. Villagers fight power project

    By webfact, June 5, 2017
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    • webfact
    • June 5, 2017

16. Myanmar's Suu Kyi seeks to revive peace process with fresh talks

    By snoop1130, May 24, 2017
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    • snoop1130
    • May 24, 2017

17. Quarrying operations in Mon state face curbs

    By rooster59, May 6, 2017
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    • rooster59
    • May 6, 2017

18. Pope's meeting with Myanmar's Suu Kyi leads to diplomatic ties

    By webfact, May 5, 2017
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    • Baerboxer
    • May 6, 2017

19. Interpol 'red notice' for Scots teacher over Myanmar murder

    By rooster59, April 16, 2017
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    • gregk0543
    • April 24, 2017

20. Is British teacher wanted over murder of colleague in Burma hiding out in Thailand? 1 2

    By snoop1130, November 7, 2016
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    • CelticBhoy
    • April 21, 2017

21. Police found thousands of detonators in UWSA liaison office in Lashio

    By webfact, April 13, 2017
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    • webfact
    • April 13, 2017

22. About 20 wedding guests dead as boat sinks in southwestern Myanmar

    By rooster59, April 7, 2017
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    • rooster59
    • April 7, 2017

23. Myanmar leader says no ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims - BBC

    By webfact, April 5, 2017
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    • phantomfiddler
    • April 6, 2017

24. China may scrap divisive dam in Myanmar to advance other interests - sources

    By webfact, April 5, 2017
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    • webfact
    • April 5, 2017

25. Suu Kyi's party wins nearly half of Myanmar by-elections

    By webfact, April 3, 2017
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    • retarius
    • April 4, 2017

26. Myanmar trains midwives to tackle maternal death rate

    By rooster59, April 2, 2017
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    • rooster59
    • April 2, 2017

27. Myanmar goes to polls for by-elections, in first vote since Suu Kyi swept to power

    By rooster59, April 1, 2017
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    • Srikcir
    • April 1, 2017

28. EXCLUSIVE: Rohingya rebel leader challenges Myanmar's Suu Kyi, vows to fight on

    By rooster59, April 1, 2017
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    • KhunKen2
    • April 1, 2017

29. U.N. will investigate crimes against Rohingya in Myanmar

    By snoop1130, March 24, 2017
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    • phantomfiddler
    • March 25, 2017

30. China, Russia block U.N. council concern about Myanmar violence

    By rooster59, March 18, 2017
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    • retarius
    • March 18, 2017

31. With a stroke of red pen, Myanmar's Rohingya fear losing right to return

    By snoop1130, March 15, 2017
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    • snoop1130
    • March 15, 2017

32. Burma’s nationalist monk banned from delivering sermons

    By rooster59, March 11, 2017
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    • siam2007
    • March 11, 2017

33. Parliament to rectify “corrupt” judicial system

    By webfact, March 9, 2017
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    • webfact
    • March 9, 2017

34. Extremist Myanmar monk organises rally in support of Dhammakaya Temple in Thailand

    By webfact, February 24, 2017
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    • BlindMagician
    • February 25, 2017

35. Senior Myanmar police jailed for negligence over Rohingya attacks

    By rooster59, February 25, 2017
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    • rooster59
    • February 25, 2017

36. Singapore is top investor in Myanmar

    By webfact, February 15, 2017
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    • oldsailor35
    • February 15, 2017

37. Region’s drug problems are closely linked to Myanmar’s civil strife

    By rooster59, February 12, 2017
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    • rooster59
    • February 12, 2017

38. Thai transsexual Facebook idol apologise Myanmar over Shwedagon Pagoda uproar

    By webfact, February 10, 2017
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    • Beats56
    • February 11, 2017

39. Myanmar commanders should be punished for rape of Rohingya - Human Rights Watch

    By snoop1130, February 6, 2017
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    • Baerboxer
    • February 7, 2017

40. Mastermind in U Ko Ni’s murder still at large

    By webfact, February 7, 2017
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    • webfact
    • February 7, 2017

41. Myanmar army killed and raped in Rohingya ethnic cleansing - U.N

    By snoop1130, February 3, 2017
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    • homosapien
    • February 4, 2017