Suu Kyi forecast to triumph in virus-hit Myanmar election
Polls opened in Myanmar on Sunday morning for a vote expected to return to power the government of Aung San ...
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Journalists appeal their sentence
Yangon"•Lawyers lodged an appeal Monday to free two Reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis, decrying the ...
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Suu Kyi defends jailing of reporters
Hanoi"•Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday robustly defended the jailing of two Reuters journalists who were reporting on the ...
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Suu Kyi pressed on Rohingya crisis
SYDNEY"•Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi was pressed about the Rohingya crisis at an Asean summit in Sydney ...
Read moreEnvoy for abstention vote on Rohingya reso
AFTER the Philippines voted against a United Nations draft resolution on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, the Philippine envoy to ...
Read moreRohingya crisis sparks fear among Bangladeshi Buddhists
RAMU, Bangladesh—As thousands of Rohingya flee ethnic violence in Myanmar, Bangladesh’s small Buddhist community fears the crisis could spark a ...
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