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Myanmar’s military representatives and lawmakers take oath during a Parliament session at Lower House in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on March 16, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Myanmar’s Parliament convened on Monday (March 16, 2026) for the first time since a coup five years ago, in one of the final steps in a nominal return to democracy…
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Damage to vehicles at the site of a military strike on a protest in central Myanmar’s Chaung U township. Facebook/UGC via AFP Myanmar’s military carried out a paraglider strike on a village that killed at least 24 people including children, and wounded more than 50 others, according to a member of a resistance group, villagers…
Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it seized power from an elected civilian government. The political situation remains tense with no negotiation space in sight between the military government and the major opposition groups fighting against it. The four years after…
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The presence of Rohingya community within India is progressively becoming an issue of political blame-game and some political actors are busy pedalling mass anxiety without factoring in the complex multiplicity of vectors related to the issue, including the growing importance of the issue globally. Thus it is creating a situation where the presence of Rohingyas…
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Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing held talks with Premier Li Qiang of key ally China on the civil war roiling his country. File photo | Photo Credit: AP Myanmar’s junta chief has held talks with Premier Li Qiang of key ally China on the civil war roiling his country, state media said Thursday, during…
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South East Asian country leaders hold hands during the opening ceremony of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Vientiane, Laos, Wednesday (October 9, 2024) | Photo Credit: AP Southeast Asian leaders pressed Myanmar’s junta and its opponents on Wednesday (October 9, 2024) to take “concrete action” to stop the bloodshed in…
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Top officials pose for a group photo at the 25th ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers session of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Vientiane, Laos, Saturday, July 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Top diplomats from Southeast Asia convened on July 27 in the Laotian capital with their powerful dialogue…
Smoke rises from debris and corrugated roofing of a school structure that was burned to the ground in Taung Myint village in the Magway region of Myanmar on October 16, 2022. | Photo Credit: AP An intensification of fighting in Myanmar’s civil war has brought a sharp increase in destructive attacks on schools, a group…
Gutted buildings, vacant windows and blocks bombed to rubble show the price paid by the western Myanmar town of Pauktaw for victory against the junta in the country’s civil war. Fighters from the Arakan Army (AA) ethnic minority armed group took control of the fishing port of 20,000 people in January, as the conflict sparked…
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Members of Myanmar Border Guard Police, in civilian clothing, sit under the shade of trees after abandoning their posts following an alleged attack by members of the Arakan Army as Bangladesh border guards stand guard in Ghumdhum, Bandarban, Bangladesh, on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A Myanmar ethnic minority armed group on…
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