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Tillerson tells Myanmar army chief U.S. concerned about reported atrocities

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke on Thursday with Myanmar’s army chief and expressed concern over reported atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, the U.S. State Department said in a statement. Continue reading “Tillerson tells Myanmar army chief U.S. concerned about reported atrocities”

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ဘဏ္ ႏွင့္ ေငြေၾကး, ECONOMIC, News

ရိုးမ ဘဏ္သူေဌး က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကို စီးပြားေရး တိုးတက္ ေအာင္ မလုပ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ အတြက္ ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္ ေ၀ဖန္

0827_serge-pun_650x455တိုင္းျပည္ ရဲ ့ စီးပြားေရး ေႏွးေကြးမႈ နဲ ့ ေစ်းကြက္ မွာ ထုတ္လုပ္ တင္ပို ့ မႈ ေတြ က် ဆင္း လာ တာ ဟာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ နဲ ့ NLD အစိုးရ ရဲ ့ စီးပြား ေရး ကို အေလးထား ေဆာင္ရြက္ ျခင္း မျပဳ တာ နဲ ့ စီးပြားေရး ျပဳ ျပင္
ေျပာင္းလဲ ဖို ့ ႀကိဳ းပမ္း ရမွာ ေတြ ကို ထိထိ ေရာက္ ေရာက္ မလုပ္ တာ

Continue reading “ရိုးမ ဘဏ္သူေဌး က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကို စီးပြားေရး တိုးတက္ ေအာင္ မလုပ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ အတြက္ ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္ ေ၀ဖန္”

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EU urges Myanmar to protect free speech after arrests of journalists

YANGON – The European Union on Monday urged Myanmar to protect journalists from “intimidation, arrest or prosecution” after several cases of reporters running into trouble with the law, including three detained by the army last week. Continue reading “EU urges Myanmar to protect free speech after arrests of journalists”

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သမၼတ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ ေခ် မ်ား ႏွင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္

  ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္း                   ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ တစ္ေယာက္ သမၼတ ဘယ္ေတာ့ မွ ျဖစ္မလာ ႏိုင္ပါ ဘူး ဆိုသည့္ အေတြး မွာ ၂၀၁၆ ခုႏွစ္ မတိုင္ ခင္ က တတိယ တန္း အဆင့္ ႏို္င္ငံ ေရး အကဲခတ္ သူ တစ္ခ်ိ ဳ ့၏ စစ္တပ္ က NLD ကို ဘယ္ေတာ့ မွာ တြး ေခၚ မႈ အဆင့္ မွ် ေလာက္ ပင္ ျဖစ္သည္။

Continue reading “သမၼတ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ ေခ် မ်ား ႏွင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္”

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Exclusive: Overruling diplomats, U.S. to drop Iraq, Myanmar from child soldiers’ list

By Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick | WASHINGTON

In a highly unusual intervention, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to remove Iraq Continue reading “Exclusive: Overruling diplomats, U.S. to drop Iraq, Myanmar from child soldiers’ list”

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Myanmar cardinal says there is no “ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya minority

A UN report in February described the situation of the Rohingya community in Rakhine State a possible “genocide” and described a set of “crimes against humanity” in Continue reading “Myanmar cardinal says there is no “ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya minority”

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Myanmar Army Found Terrorist Training Cave Complex in Rakhine State

Myanmar security forces killed three people while clearing a suspected Rohingya insurgent training camp in the mountains in the troubled northwestern state of Rakhine, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar daily said on Thursday. Continue reading “Myanmar Army Found Terrorist Training Cave Complex in Rakhine State”

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Myanmar, having warmed to the West, turns to China again

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Myanmar was supposed to turn away from China and toward the West when the U.S. helped it transition from five decades of military rule. Continue reading “Myanmar, having warmed to the West, turns to China again”

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Donald Trump’s warning of major conflict, as North Korea turns to Southeast Asian nations for support

Reuters, AFP and staff writers, News Corp Australia Network

US President Donald Trump said a major conflict with North Korea is possible in the standoff over its nuclear and missile programs, but he would prefer a diplomatic outcome to the dispute.

Continue reading “Donald Trump’s warning of major conflict, as North Korea turns to Southeast Asian nations for support”

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Rohingya villagers tell of Myanmar forces’ reprisal killings after insurgents’ deadly attack

BY CARLOS SARDIÑA GALACHE | Post Mag | 12:00 M

Husbands, neighbours, grandsons – police and troops dragged them from their homes in Myo Thu Gyi, Rakhine state, and executed them. All were innocent civilians say witnesses to the killings, revenge for police deaths in a rebel raid. Continue reading “Rohingya villagers tell of Myanmar forces’ reprisal killings after insurgents’ deadly attack”

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Myanmar bird’s eye view: Bagan’s Buddhist temples by balloon

By Todd Pitman | AP April 26 at 10:28 AM

BAGAN, Myanmar — The moment of takeoff was silent, and mesmerizing. Continue reading “Myanmar bird’s eye view: Bagan’s Buddhist temples by balloon”

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Aung San Suu Kyi to visit Philipine

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
MANILA – Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi will visit the Philippines for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, an official said Monday. Continue reading “Aung San Suu Kyi to visit Philipine”

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Not even Aung San Suu Kyi can fix the world’s longest-running civil war

By Hunter Marston | Washington Post  
Hunter Marston is a Southeast Asia analyst at a think tank in Washington, D.C.

In November 2015, the party of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi won a landslide victoryin the country’s first free election in decades. The expectations of her Continue reading “Not even Aung San Suu Kyi can fix the world’s longest-running civil war”

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China Ready to Mediate Between Myanmar, Bangladesh Over Rohingya Row

BY ON 26/04/2017

Dhaka: China offered on Tuesday to help tackle a diplomatic row between Bangladesh and Myanmar over the flight of minority Rohingyas, two Bangladesh foreign ministry officials said. Continue reading “China Ready to Mediate Between Myanmar, Bangladesh Over Rohingya Row”

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