The People’s Defence Force has suffered a major symbolic setback by losing control of the first town it seized – accusing the Myanmar military of destroying Kawlin in order to reclaim it – but its troops vow to fight on.
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The People’s Defence Force has suffered a major symbolic setback by losing control of the first town it seized – accusing the Myanmar military of destroying Kawlin in order to reclaim it – but its troops vow to fight on.
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As the military regime targets places of worship to break popular support for the resistance, Catholic communities caught up in the conflict are being denied the consolations of their religion.
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Malaysia is encouraging undocumented migrants to hand themselves in on the promise to repatriate rather than detain them, but many Myanmar migrants fear being arrested on their return or forced to serve in the military.
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On the eve of Myanmar’s historic election, a look back at how activism and Western policy have intersected over the years – and what this nexus will mean moving forward.
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Red lights flashed at any mention of fear under junta rule during the 2010 campaign.
Economic factors are at the heart of the divide between the non-state armed groups which signed or refused the government's ceasefire deal.
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နိုင်ငံတကာ ကုမ္ပဏီကြီးဖြစ်သော ဆမ်ဆောင်းသည် တောင်ကိုရီးယား၏ အကြီးမားဆုံး စီးပွားရေး လုပ်ငန်းစုကြီး ဖြစ်ပြီး သူ၏ ဒါဇင်ပေါင်းများစွာသော လုပ်ငန်းခွဲများထဲ၌ ဆမ်ဆောင်း အီလက်ထရွန်းနစ်လည်း ပါဝင်သည်။ ဆမ်ဆောင်း အီလက်ထရွန်းနစ်သည် ကမ္ဘာ့အကြီးမားဆုံးအိုင်တီကုမ္ပဏီများထဲမှ တစ်ခုလည်း ဖြစ်သည်။ ဆမ်ဆောင်း လ
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi says she is prepared to lead Myanmar’s next government should the NLD win the election, even though the constitution bars her from becoming the next president.
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