Myanmar
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Myanmar exported over 1.5 million tons of pulses between April and December of the 2024-2025 fiscal year, state-run daily The Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Wednesday. The exports included 700,000 tons of black gram, 200,000 tons of pigeon pea and 400,000 tons of green gram, the report said, citing Myanmar Pulses, Beans, Maize…
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Myanmar’s military, which seized power in a coup nearly three years ago, has agreed to an immediate cease-fire with an alliance of ethnic armed groups, whose offensive since October has emerged as the regime’s most serious threat since its takeover. China claimed to have brokered the agreement. “China hopes the relevant parties in Myanmar can…
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The Chinese embassy in Myanmar has requested that its citizens leave a border district in Myanmar as soon as possible due to security concerns. The call to evacuate the Laukkai area in the Kokang region, along the countries’ shared border, came on Thursday as Myanmar’s military fought an alliance of ethnic armed groups fighting to…
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China has lodged protests to Myanmar after five people were injured by artillery shells fired during battles between its ruling junta and rebel groups that landed in its small town near their border, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Thursday, CNN reported. While addressing a press conference on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang…
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The United Nations said on Monday that thousands of people are believed to have been displaced by four days of fighting in northern Myanmar, including several hundred who reportedly fled to China. Three powerful ethnic armed groups attacked junta troops on Friday across a swath of northern Shan State, which is home to a planned…
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Indonesia said Saturday that Southeast Asia will not become a “pawn of rivalries” as it emphasized reinforcing regional cooperation. “Instead, South East Asia must be an epicenter of growth, where all countries can benefit meaningfully,” Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. “Regional institutions should be…
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An independent commission established by Myanmar’s government has concluded there are reasons to believe that security forces committed war crimes in counterinsurgency operations that led more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. However, the commission, headed by a Philippine diplomat, said in a report given Monday to President Win Myint that there…
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Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, the two Reuters journalists who were jailed in Myanmar for 511 days and were released recently after being pardoned, received their Pulitzer Prize for international reporting on Tuesday. They were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act, before being pardoned. The Pulitzer Prize they were cited to receive last month when…
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A Myanmar government spokesman on Wednesday rejected a report by United Nations investigators that called for top generals to be prosecuted for genocide, saying the international community was making “false allegations”, Reuters noted. His comments came a day after the U.N report, which marked the first time the organisation has explicitly called for Myanmar officials…
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The international community on Monday supported the UN report, which called for an investigation and prosecution of Myanmar’s top military officials on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against Rohingya Muslims. The report prepared by the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar stated that human rights violations and abuses committed in…
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Myanmar’s army chief denied his forces committed rape and other sexual abuses during a crackdown he ordered on Rohingya Muslims, as he addressed UN Security Council delegates in the capital Naypyidaw. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing heads an army accused of “ethnic cleansing” by the United Nations, including the widespread rape and murder of civilians…
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Rohingya refugees have demanded guarantees for a safe return to Myanmar during a visit to refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district by a United Nations Security Council delegation. Representatives from the 15 member countries of the UN organ on Sunday spoke with some of the 700,000 people who fled what the UN has called…
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A combo of satellite images released by Digital Globe on 2 December, 2017 and 19 February, 2018 confirms the government of Myanmar is destroying every trace of evidence left in Thit Tone Nar Gwa Son village, a predominantly Muslim community about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Maungdaw, Rakhine state, where mass atrocities were committed.…
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The United Nations confirmed in a report that more than 3,000 desperate Rohingya refugees have crossed over to Bangladesh from Myanmar in the past two days. An agency of the world organization said their partners are working day and night to assist the tired and hungry immigrants by providing them with food, medication and shelter. “Most…
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