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Myanmar junta sold USD 1.43 billion Rakhine natural gas to China in 2022
Updated : 17 hours, 14 min ago IST
Even though that Rakhine's natural resources are exported to China for billions every year by successive Myanmar governments, Rakhine state is the second poorest state in Myanmar and has one of the highest unemployment rates.
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China holding back from taking relations further with Myanmar's junta: Rep
Updated : 5 days, 19 hours ago IST
Myanmar was expected to hold a summit of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) towards the end of 2022, but it was not held as China's Premier Li Keqiang did not respond to the Myanmar junta's invitation for the summit.
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Myanmar's military holds talks with ethnic armed groups on staging electio
Updated : 3 weeks, 4 days ago IST
Myanmar's military administration conducted discussions with three ethnic armed groups about holding polls in regions under rebel control, Al Jazeera quoted a spokesman for one of the groups as saying on Saturday.
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World leaders need to act against Myanmar junta: UN Special Rapporteur on
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Taking to Twitter, Andrews said, " The Myanmar junta's 33-year sentence of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi comes a week after a Security Council resolution demanded her release and that of more than 13,000 other political prisoners. They need more than words of condemnation from world leade
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Myanmar junta to release four foreign prisoners in amnesty
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The amnesty will release 5,744 prisoners to mark Myanmar's National Day. And among them, Sean Turnell, an Australian economist who has been detained since the regime seized power in February 2021, and Vicky Bowman, a former British ambassador to Myanmar who was arrested in August will als
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China may use Pakistan as proxy to arm Myanmar junta, says expert
Updated : 4 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], October 4 (ANI): Even as the world's eyes are fixed on ongoing rights abuses in Myanmar, China has tried to engage with the military regime in the Southeast Asian country while hoping to export military hardware to the junta.
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France condemns prison sentence handed down to Myanmar's deposed leader Su
Updated : 4 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Paris [France], September 6 (ANI): France has condemned the new prison sentence, with hard labour, imposed on Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Myanmar junta sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to jail for electoral fraud
Updated : 5 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], September 2 (ANI): Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday was sentenced to three years in jail with hard labour after a court found her guilty of electoral fraud.
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Myanmar's junta using Chinese facial recognition technology to track, elim
Updated : 6 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], August 3 (ANI): In order to expand its public surveillance capabilities, Myanmar's military regime is using facial recognition technology, raising fresh concerns about the safety of democracy activists and resistance groups in Myanmar.
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Blinken condemns Myanmar junta's execution of 4 activists
Updated : 6 months, 1 week ago IST
Washington [US], July 25 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday condemned the Myanmar military regime's execution of four pro-democracy activists and elected leaders.
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UN experts appeal for strong response in wake of executions by Myanmar jun
Updated : 6 months, 1 week ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 25 (ANI): The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, and the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, on Monday condemned the Myanmar junta's execution of four individuals,
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UN rights expert to visit Malaysia for greater engagement in Myanmar crisi
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 16 (ANI): The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights, Tom Andrews, will conduct a mission to Malaysia from June 17-23, in a bid to meet UN officials and other representatives in the region to help resolve the crisis in Myanmar.
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