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Myanmar junta air strike kills 17

 YANGON – A Myanmar military air strike on a village market in the country’s westernmost state killed at least 17 people, two local sources...

Junta denies killing civilians in hospital strike

Yangon—Myanmar’s military junta denied on Saturday killing civilians in a hospital air strike that left more than 30 people dead. A military jet bombed late...

UN says famine looming in Myanmar’s Rakhine state

Myanmar’s conflict-torn Rakhine state is heading toward famine, the United Nations warned on Thursday, as the country’s civil war squeezes commerce and agricultural production. “Rakhine’s...

PH pledges P4.8 million to Rohingya refugees

The Philippine government has pledged $100,000 or around P4.85 million to assist, through the United Nations, the Rohingya refugees in Myanmar, where over a...

One year after

This weekend marks the first year of the military crackdown on the Rohingya in Rakhine state in Myanmar. The United Nations has likened the attacks...

Suu Kyi scraps public appearance

SYDNEY"•Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday pulled out of a public speech and question-and-answer session in Sydney because she was...

Within sight of land

More than a dozen people, mostly children, drowned in the latest incident of a capsized boat off Bangladesh Thursday. Many are missing. These are Rohingya,...

Myanmar villages burn as Rakhine unrest rages

MAY YU RIVER, Myanmar"•Smoke billowed from at least three burning villages in the remote section of Rakhine state where Myanmar’s military is carrying out...

Cornered by poverty, followed by violence

RAKHINE, Myanmar"•Hemmed in by Myanmar security forces and menaced by abductions and killings, Rohingya Muslims in a conflict-scarred corner of Rakhine State say fear...
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