Myanmar’s military government extends state of emergency by 6 months
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government on Friday announced another six-month extension of its mandate to rule in ...
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The Independent’s documentary hailed for shining light on ‘reprehensible’ jailing of Aung San Suu Kyi
The Independent has been hailed for shining a light on the continued imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi by a brutal military ...
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The world must end its silence on Aung San Suu Kyi
A protester holds up a poster featuring Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military coup in front of the Central Bank of Myanmar in Yangon on Feb. 15, 2021. (Photo: AFP) Earlier this ...
The Daily Telegraph17d
Move over London and Paris – Bangkok is the definitive city of the 2020s
New York in the 1920s. London in the 1960s. Hong Kong in the 1980s – if certain decades encapsulate a city’s boom years, then Bangkok is nailing the 2020s. The Big Mango rounded off the year ...
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A landslide in a Myanmar jade mining area kills at least 12 and leaves many missing
BANGKOK (AP) — An overnight landslide at ... seized power in February 2021 from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The region is now embroiled in conflict that has driven many civilians ...
The Independent22d
An army airstrike on a village in western Myanmar has killed at least 40 people, reports say
Myanmar is wracked by violence that began when the army ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. After the army used lethal force to suppress peaceful demonstrations ...
The Star26d
Myanmar's ruling junta grants amnesty to thousands of prisoners; many political detainees also freed
YANGON/BANGKOK (dpa): Myanmar's military junta ... However, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who was ousted from power in the military coup in February 2021 and sentenced to a long ...
India Today27d
Myanmar's military to release 5,864 prisoners on country's independence day
Nobel laureate and former leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains imprisoned. Listen to Story 180 foreign prisoners to be released on Myanmar's independence day Military seized power in Myanmar in 2021 Aung ...
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Myanmar to release prisoners to mark Independence Day
BANGKOK: Myanmar's military government will ... seized power in February 2021 from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. That takeover was met with massive nonviolent resistance, which ...
Nikkei Asia27d
Myanmar to release more than 6,000 prisoners to mark Independence Day
BANGKOK (AP) -- Myanmar's military government ... seized power in February 2021 from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. That takeover was met with massive nonviolent resistance, which ...
The Independent27d
Foreigners among 6,000 prisoners to be freed under Myanmar junta’s annual amnesty
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing ... to an image of detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration outside the UN office in Bangkok (AFP via Getty Images) One notable release ...
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Myanmar frees more than 6,000 prisoners as country marks anniversary of independence from Britain
The freed inmates included just a small proportion of hundreds of political detainees locked up for opposing army rule since the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.