Suu Kyi kicks off advance voting for elderly in Myanmar election
by Richard SARGENT / Su Myat MON NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (AFP) -- Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi cast her…
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EU parliament cuts Suu Kyi from rights prize honorees
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) -- The European Parliament on Thursday removed Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi from the "Sakharov…
6 years ago
Tiger, pangolin farming in Myanmar risks ‘boosting demand’
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Conservationists have warned a sudden change in Myanmar's law allowing the commercial farming of tigers, pangolins…
6 years ago
More than 160 dead in Myanmar jade mine landslide
HPAKANT, Myanmar (AFP) -- The battered bodies of more than 160 jade miners were pulled from a sea of mud…
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UPDATED: More than 100 dead in Myanmar jade mine landslide
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) -- The bodies of at least 100 jade miners were pulled from the mud after a landslide…
6 years ago
35 Filipinos stranded in Myanmar join special relief flight to return to PHL
(Eagle News)--Thirty-five stranded Filipinos in Myanmar joined the special repatriation flight organized by the Philippine Embassy in Yangon and the…
6 years ago
Stranded Rohingya pulled to shore by sympathetic Indonesians
LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia (AFP) -- Nearly 100 Rohingya asylum seekers stranded off the coast of Indonesia were pulled to shore Thursday…
6 years ago
Stranded Filipinos from Myanmar and Bahrain repatriated to the Philippines, DFA reports
(Eagle News) - Ninety-one Filipinos from Myanmar were repatriated back to the Philippines after being stranded in the capital city…
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Myanmar releases 25,000 prisoners amid virus fears
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) -- More than a quarter of Myanmar's prison population is being released, the president's office announced…
6 years ago
Myanmar confirms first coronavirus cases
by Sun Myat Mon and Richard Sargent YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) -- Myanmar confirmed its first cases of the deadly novel…
6 years ago
UN appeals for $877 million to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The United Nations on Tuesday appealed for nearly $900 million to help hundreds of thousands of…
6 years ago
Top UN court orders Myanmar to prevent Rohingya genocide
by Danny KEMP Agence France Presse THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) -- The UN's highest court ordered Myanmar on Thursday…
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