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Mideast crisis fuels crude conflict in Myanmar civil war

Myanmar's small-scale oil prospectors are under fire from all sides as the resistance and the military battle to capture a cottage industry increasingly lucrative amid the Middle East energy shock.

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Myanmar regime summons German envoy over call for coup releases

The Myanmar regime's foreign ministry said it summoned Germany's top resident diplomat on Tuesday over a Facebook video calling for authorities to "unconditionally release" ousted politicians, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Top UN court to rule November 19 on Myanmar/Rohingya genocide case

The top United Nations court will on November 19 deliver a landmark ruling on whether Myanmar's crackdown against its mostly Muslim Rohingya minority constituted a genocide, officials said on Tuesday.

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Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi sounded ‘fairly healthy’, son says after first call in years

The son of Myanmar's Daw Aung San Suu Kyi told Agence France-Presse she sounded "fairly healthy" after speaking to the detained ex-democratic leader on Thursday for the first time in more than five years.

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Panglong in pictures

After six months of delays, the third installment of the 21st CenturyPanglong Union Peace Conference opened on July 11, bringing together hundreds of delegates from across the country.

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Key member resigns from Myanmar advisory panel on Rakhine

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Government, military leaders pay tribute on Martyrs' Day anniversary

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Government, military leaders pay tribute on Martyrs’ Day anniversary

Military and civilian leaders paid their respects to General Aung San and eight others who were assassinated in 1947, in a ceremony in Yangon today.

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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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