Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 04:48:35 +0000
Bangladesh’s foreign secretary on Thursday said his country will need to stop accepting more refugees from Myanmar.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:54:29 +0000
A French national appeared in court Friday in Myanmar after being arrested for allegedly flying a drone close to the parliament complex.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 06:46:28 +0000
A court in Myanmar has sentenced two men to death for the killing of a prominent Muslim lawyer who was a close adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 23:13:17 +0000
Angelina Jolie on Tuesday urged Myanmar to show a genuine commitment to ending violence and displacement in its Rakhine state, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh for safety.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 07:07:53 +0000
Lawyers for two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years in Myanmar lodged an appeal Friday with the Supreme Court.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 07:47:27 +0000
A Myanmar judge dismissed an appeal Friday by two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years while investigating Rohingya atrocities.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:16:37 +0000
Several dozen journalists and activists have held a rally in Myanmar’s biggest city to mark the anniversary of the arrest of two Reuters reporters.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:42:29 +0000
Messages of solidarity poured in from around the world on the one-year anniversary of the arrest of two Myanmar Reuters journalists.
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Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday implored foreign investors to take a punt on her country — Southeast Asia’s “final frontier.”
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The EU’s diplomatic chief on Thursday condemned Myanmar’s jailing of two Reuters journalists, hours after the country’s tarnished democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi strongly defended the men’s treatment.
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