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YANGON The landmark trial of three men accused of plotting the assassination of a prominent Muslim lawyer will draw to a close Friday, more than two years since the killing sent shock waves through the country. Ko Ni, a constitutional expert and clos…
Read moreYANGON A social venture in Myanmar is boosting farm outputs with customized technologies and giving loans for seasonal migration to raise incomes in one of the world’s poorest countries.Proximity Designs, which was set up in 2004 in the country’s comm…
Read morePolice in eastern Myanmar fired rubber bullets into a crowd of several thousand people protesting a statue of the father of leader Aung San Suu Kyi.The statue depicting General Aung San on horseback was unveiled earlier this month in the city of Loikaw…
Read moreCOX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH On a blue mat in their mud and bamboo home in the middle of the world’s largest refugee settlement, Mohammad Selim is pacing his 9-year-old daughter Nasima Akter on her taekwondo drill.As a local taekwondo champion in his Rohi…
Read moreVietnamese democracy advocate and blogger Phan Kim Khanh, who is serving a six-year jail sentence for spreading propaganda against the state will submit a complaint to his local court after officials there failed to respond to an appeal he previously f…
Read moreYANGON, Myanmar authorities have detained 14 illegal migrants bound for Malaysia and two brokers assisting them.With the 14 illegal migrants on board, a vessel was captured by a Myanmar navy vessel patrolling 4.8 km west of Thaechaung village in Sittw…
Read moreSix jade scavengers died when a 150-foot cliff wall collapsed midday Sunday at a jade mine in Hpakant township of northern Myanmar’s Kachin state, a mining area where hundreds of lives have been lost in recent years, a municipal official said.Six of ni…
Read morePHUKET, THAILAND Staying at a hotel on the Thai island of Koh Samui in 2015, Meghan Kerrigan noticed the four bottles of water she was given every day were clogging her bin with plastic.Outside her door, Chaweng beach was smothered in rubbish. It was…
Read moreGENEVA The U.N. refugee agency says it is worried by reports of people fleeing escalating violence in Myanmar’s southern Chin State and Rakhine State, adding to growing instability in these regions.The U.N. refugee agency says it cannot assess the sca…
Read moreNEW DELHI, Bangladesh wants a safe haven for theforcibly displaced Myanmar nationals in Rakhine state by ensuring their safe, secured and dignified repatriation under the monitoring of India, China and other ASEAN nations.We want a safe haven for the …
Read moreYANGON, Myanmar, Myanmar attracted over 3.55 million foreign visitors in the whole of 2018, according to the figures from the Hotel and Tourism Ministry on Saturday (today).During the period, China topped the list of Asian travellers with 297,400 visi…
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