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Myanmar regime’s president holds trade and security talks with India’s Modi

India gave a red-carpet welcome on Monday to Myanmar's junta leader-turned president Min Aung Hlaing – his first trip abroad since becoming civilian leader – with talks focusing on security and trade.

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Blast in resistance-held Myanmar kills dozens: rescuers

A blast in northern Myanmar killed dozens of people on Sunday, two rescue workers said, with the resistance group controlling the area saying it was caused by the accidental detonation of mining explosives.

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Growing fears: Myanmar farmers face fertiliser, fuel dearth

Under monsoon skies leaden with rain, Myanmar rice farmers despondently tend their paddy fields, doubtful the deluge will bring bountiful harvests during a fuel and fertiliser crisis caused by the Iran war.

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Myanmar military claims recapture of Thai border town

Myanmar's military claimed on Wednesday to have recaptured a town on the Thai border, expanding the frontier trade crossings it claims to control in the grinding civil war.

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‘Children are innocent’: Myanmar families in grief after school airstrike

Ko Min said he found his son and daughter's bodies in the ruins of a schoolhouse in central Myanmar, moments after a deadly airstrike that witnesses said came as a military jet circled the village.

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Myanmar junta airstrike kills 22 at school: witnesses

A regime airstrike hit a school in Sagaing Region on Monday killing 22 people, including 20 children, witnesses said, despite a purported humanitarian ceasefire called to help Myanmar recover from a devastating earthquake.

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Myanmar marks month of misery since historic quake

Myanmar marked one month since suffering its fiercest earthquake in more than a century on Monday, with military bombardments unabated despite a humanitarian truce as thousands of survivors camp in makeshift shelters.

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Tradition stokes pollution at Myanmar ‘slash and burn’ festival

A charred Myanmar hillside is wreathed by flames, spewing ochre smoke that smothers out sunlight in an apocalyptic scene.

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Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Myanmar enters 2021 with more friends than foes

The early delivery of vaccines is one of the many boons of the country’s geopolitics, but to really take advantage, Myanmar must bury the legacy of its isolationist past.

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Will the Kayin BGF go quietly?

The Kayin State Border Guard Force has come under intense pressure from the Tatmadaw over its extensive, controversial business interests and there’s concern the ultimatum could trigger fresh hostilities in one of the country’s most war-torn areas.

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