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The Myanmar military said Thursday that it seized an Arakan Army temporary camp in Rakhine state’s Buthidaung township a day earlier, where it found five dead bodies and weapons amid ongoing hostilities with the rebel forces in the region.When governme…
Read moreCambodia’s Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday arrested a member of the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party after he posted a Facebook message saying the European Union plans to impose a tariff on Cambodian rice, sources in the country said.Kong Ma…
Read moreCanada’s Foreign Minister said Saturday, after a young Saudi women fled to Canada out of fear for her life, that Canada believes “very strongly that women’s rights are human rights.”Eighteen-year-old Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun was greeted by Foreign Minist…
Read moreGENEVA (11 January 2019) � Reflecting on breakthroughs that brought an easing of tensions on the Korean peninsula in the past year, the UN’s human rights expert on North Korea said that 2019 represented a critical test, not only for peace and denuclear…
Read moreA Rakhine political party said Wednesday that it will hold a meeting in Rakhine state’s capital Sittwe to discuss a warning by a central government spokesman this week against support for the region’s ethnic military force following a deadly attack it …
Read moreOngoing endometrial and colorectal cancer cohorts intended to support BLA submissions NEW YORK, Jan. 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Checkpoint Therapeutics, Inc. (“Checkpoint”) (NASDAQ: CKPT), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology biopharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of novel treatments for patients with solid tumor cancers, today announced that the ongoing multi-center clinical trial of […]
Read moreMyanmar’s leaders on Monday vowed to crush an insurgency in western Rakhine state by the Arakan Army (AA), demanding that ethnic Rakhines end support for the armed group that killed 13 policeman in coordinated attacks during the country’s Independence …
Read moreBEIJING China has sounded a positive note ahead of trade talks this week with Washington, but the two sides face potentially lengthy wrangling over technology and the future of their economic relationship.Both sides have expressed an interest in sett…
Read moreSYDNEY Two of Australia’s nine high-security immigration detention centers are being closed in what the government says is a vindication of its tough border protection policies.Ministers say the facilities are no longer needed because they have stopp…
Read moreAn ethnic Rakhine insurgent group launched coordinated attacks on four police outposts near Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh early Friday, killing 13 policemen and injuring nine others, a spokesman for the Myanmar Army said, as violence in restive nort…
Read moreThe U.S. State Department has updated its travel advisory on China, calling on Americans to exercise “increased caution” in the country due to “arbitrary enforcement of local laws as well as special restrictions on dual U.S.-Chinese nationals.”The advi…
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