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YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing was months from mandatory retirement as a general when he changed strategy, deposed the democratic government…
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YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing was months from mandatory retirement as a general when he changed strategy, deposed the democratic government…
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The Philippines has underscored the critical need for humanitarian assistance in Myanmar as the Southeast Asian nation marks the fifth year of its ongoing…
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Around 300 prisoners were bussed out of Yangon’s Insein Prison.
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ASEAN maintains its position on the importance of a free, fair, peaceful, transparent, inclusive and credible general election in Myanmar.
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The executed were behind the deaths of 14 Chinese citizens and injuries to ‘many others.’
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Foreign Affairs Secretary Tess Lazaro admitted that security challenges within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) not only remain, but are…
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YANGON (AFP) — Hundreds of prisoners walked free in Myanmar on Sunday after the junta announced annual independence day pardons, just a week after the start of…
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Nine overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), reportedly victims of human trafficking in Myanmar, arrived home safely on Sunday, according to the Department of…
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There will be no voting in areas controlled by rebel factions.
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BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Four Myanmar nationals caught in Bangkok on Tuesday with 10 heavy-lift cargo drones they planned to smuggle to their home country…
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BANGKOK, Thailand — Bryan Bagunas flexed his scoring prowess and strong leadership to lift Alas Pilipinas past Myanmar, 25-23, 25-20, 25-21, in the 33rd…
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A wide crater had marred the soil outside as bodies were gathered for funerals.
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A Myanmar military air strike killed more than 30 people at a hospital, aid workers said Thursday, as the junta wages a withering offensive ahead…
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Berlin (AFP) —- More than 250 human rights groups and other NGOs on government Tuesday renewed pressure on the German to take in hundreds of Afghans stranded…
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Athens (AFP) — Raghad al-Fara is struggling to rebuild her teenage life in Athens, not least because she now moves around with crutches because of injuries…
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The Philippines was the only Asian country to back the United Nations Partition Plan on 29 November 1947, a decision that helped pave the way for the…
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The election will not be held in the swathes of the country not controlled by the military or its allies.
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The Trump administration announced on Monday that it was ending temporary protections shielding immigrants from Myanmar from deportation.
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