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PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT TELLS SUU KYI RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ARE 'JUST A NOISY BUNCH'
Rohingya crisis Philippines President tells Suu Kyi rights activists are 'just a noisy bunch'... READ MORE›
1/3 OF FINALISTS IN TOP US SCIENCE COMPETITION CHINESE-AMERICAN
Society for Science the Public and Regeneron chooses 40 finalists for the 2018 Regeneron Science Talent Search on January 23, 2018... READ MORE›
US DIPLOMAT QUITS ROHINGYA ADVISORY PANEL
Mr Richardson, a former adviser to the Clinton administration, said the main reason I am resigning is that this advisory board is a whitewash ... READ MORE›
'ABSOLUTELY STUNNED' - GELDOF'S FURY AFTER DUBLIN REVOKES HIS FREEDOM HONOUR
Rocker Bob Geldof is furious about how Sinn Fein dealt with his decision to hand back the honour of the Freedom of Dublin... READ MORE›
MYANMAR BLOCKS UN RIGHTS INVESTIGATOR WEEKS BEFORE VISIT
The government has repeatedly denied violations of human rights are occurring throughout Myanmar, particularly in Rakhine State... READ MORE›
ARMY'S RAPE OF ROHINGYA WOMEN SWEEPING, METHODICAL
News agency investigation finds rape of Rohingya women by Myanmar's security forces has been systematic and widespread... READ MORE›
NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES: NUCLEAR WAR IS 'ONE TANTRUM AWAY'
An anti-nuclear weapons campaign group accepted the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize during the elaborate awards ceremony on Sunday in Oslo... READ MORE›
WOMEN SCARCE IN NOBEL PRIZE ANNALS
The Nobel Prize statistics are dour reading for women, who've been awarded only one of every 20 prizes... READ MORE›
POSSIBLE 'ELEMENTS OF GENOCIDE' IN MYANMAR
The UN rights chief called Tuesday for a fresh international investigation into Myanmar's abuses against its Rohingya Muslim minority, warning of possible elements of genocide ... READ MORE›
POSSIBLE 'ELEMENTS OF GENOCIDE' IN MYANMAR
The UN rights chief called Tuesday for a fresh international investigation into Myanmar's abuses against its Rohingya Muslim minority, warning of possible elements of genocide ... READ MORE›
I ASK FORGIVENESS POPE FRANCIS TELLS ROHINGYA MUSLIMS IN BANGLADESH
Mohammed Ayub, 32, said the Myanmar military killed his three-year-old son when they attacked his village in August. The pope should say Rohingya... READ MORE›
IN BANGLADESH, POPE FRANCIS USES THE ONE WORD HE WOULD NOT SAY IN BURMA
In Bangladesh, Pope Francis uses the one word he would not say in Burma Rohingya... READ MORE›
POPE AVOIDS ROHINGYA TERM IN SPEECH
Pope Francis has delivered a keynote speech in Myanmar, demanding respect for each ethnic group but without referring specifically to its Muslim Rohingya community... READ MORE›
POPE MEETING SUU KYI ON MYANMAR REFUGEE CRISIS AMID OUTCRY
Suu Kyi studied at Oxford before returning to Myanmar and being placed under detention for 15 years during the country's long military dictatorship... READ MORE›
MYANMAR'S AUNG SAN SUU KYI STRIPPED OF BRITISH HONOR AHEAD OF MEETING WITH POPE FRANCIS
Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi cancelled her trip to the United Nations General Assembly in New York... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS TO MEET AUNG SAN SUU KYI ON FIRST FULL DAY IN MYANMAR
Pontiff to meet country's civilian leader a day after meeting military general in charge of crackdown on Rohingya minority... READ MORE›
POPE SET FOR KEY MYANMAR SPEECH
Pope set for key Myanmar speech and meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi... READ MORE›
AUNG SAN SUU KYI LOSES FREEDOM OF OXFORD OVER ROHINGYA CRISIS
Oxford city council votes unanimously to strip Myanmar leader of award over her response to repression... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS ARRIVES IN MYANMAR
Pope Francis Arrives in a Myanmar Tarnished by Rohingya Crackdown... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | THE WORD THE BURMESE LEADERSHIP DOES NOT WANT THE POPE TO SAY DURING HIS VISIT
Pope Francis waves to well-wishers as he is driven past the Shwedagon Pagoda after his arrival Monday in Rangoon, Burma... READ MORE›
POPE HEADS TO MYANMAR AND BANGLADESH, AND INTO ROHINGYA CRISIS
Francis is also due to meet the country's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and army chief Min Aung Hlaing... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS ARRIVES IN MYANMAR AMID ROHINGYA CRISIS
His trip comes as the Myanmar government is accused of ethnically cleansing its Rohingya Muslim minority, more than 600,000 of whom have taken shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh... READ MORE›
POPE FACES TIGHTROPE ACT IN MYANMAR AMID ROHINGYA CRISIS
Pope Francis has arrived in Myanmar as the country grapples with the Rohingya crisis... READ MORE›
FRANCIS SETS OFF FOR TRICKY TRIP
He is scheduled to meet Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and the head of the country's military... READ MORE›
BURMA HAS COMMITTED 'ETHNIC CLEANSING,' U.S. SAYS. WHERE DOES AUNG SAN SUU KYI GO FROM HERE?
Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the 13th Asia Europe Foreign Ministers Meeting in Naypyidaw, Burma, on Nov. 20... READ MORE›
BANGLADESH INKS DEAL WITH MYANMAR TO REPATRIATE ROHINGYA MUSLIM REFUGEES
The agreement was inked following a meeting between Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Bangladesh's Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali in Naypyitaw, Myanmar's capital... READ MORE›
US CALLS MYANMAR ACTION 'ETHNIC CLEANSING'
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Myanmar's military action against the minority Muslim Rohingya population constitutes ethnic cleansing... READ MORE›
U.S. DECLARES ATTACKS ON BURMESE ROHINGYA MUSLIMS AS 'ETHNIC CLEANSING'
Matthew Smith, co-founder of Fortify Rights, a human rights organization working in Burma, said Tillerson's statement was nevertheless a significant step toward holding Burmese officials accountable... READ MORE›
ROHINGYA ACTIVIST: SUU KYI IS DENYING OUR EXISTENCE
-- Lotte Leicht LotteLeicht1 November 19, 2017 Aung San Suu Kyi, in her first public statement, had backed the military for their handling of the Rohingya crisis... READ MORE›
AMID ROHINGYA EXODUS, SUU KYI BLAMES WORLD CONFLICTS PARTLY ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Myanmar has been widely criticized for the military crackdown that has driven more than 620,000 Rohingya to flee Rakhine state into neighbouring Bangladesh... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Thandwe
OXFORD COLLEGE REMOVES PAINTING OF AUNG SAN SUU KYI FROM DISPLAY
So far Oxford University has decided not to reconsider Aung San Suu Kyi's honorary degree... READ MORE›
SUU KYI DOES NOT FEAR GLOBAL 'SCRUTINY'
It was her first national address on the violence in northern Rakhine state that has seen more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims cross into Bangladesh... READ MORE›
BOB DYLAN WINS NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
U.S. folk singer and songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday... READ MORE›
JAPANESE MICROBIOLOGIST YOSHINORI OHSUMI WINS NOBEL IN MEDICINE FOR AUTOPHAGY RESEARCH
Japanese microbiologist Yoshinori Ohsumi on Monday won the 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work on cell autophagy, a process that helps... READ MORE›
BOB DYLAN WILL 'ABSOLUTELY' TRY TO ATTEND NOBEL CEREMONY
Bob Dylan has finally broken his silence on his Nobel Prize... READ MORE›
AUNG SAN SUU KYI HONOURS REVOKED AMID ROHINGYA BACKLASH
In October, students at St Hugh's College at the University Oxford dropped Aung San Suu Kyi's name from its common room... READ MORE›
MYANMAR'S AUNG SAN SUU KYI TO SKIP UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Myanmar's suu kyi skips un assembly amid criticism over rohingya crisis... READ MORE›
AT RISK IN ROHINGYA EXODUS 230000 CHILDREN HUNDREDS ALL ALONE
More than half of the 400,000 refugees who have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since late August are children, and hundreds came without parents, Unicef said... READ MORE›
'THEY DROWNED BEFORE OUR EYES' - DOZENS DIE AS ROHINGYA REFUGEE BOAT CAPSIZES
Those onboard were escaping weeks of bloodshed in Myanmar's Rakhine state, and seeking the safety of neighbouring Bangladesh... READ MORE›
NOBEL PRIZE FOR BRAIN'S GPS DISCOVERY
These grid cells are akin to lines of longitude and latitude, helping the brain to judge distance and navigate... READ MORE›
UN LOOKS TO GULF STATES TO SAVE ROHINGYA REFUGEES
The plan targets 1.2 million people, including all Rohingya refugees, and 300,000 Bangladeshi host communities over the next six months, he said... READ MORE›
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS PREDICT THE END OF THE WORLD
A group of 50 Nobel Prize winners has spoken out to reveal the 10 greatest threats to mankind... READ MORE›
'BLOOD FLOWED IN THE STREETS': REFUGEES FROM ONE ROHINGYA VILLAGE RECOUNT DAYS OF HORROR
Annie Gowen The Washington Post Washington begins to sour on Aung San Suu Kyi amid mounting ethnic violence Rohingya militants in Burma Terrorists or freedom fighters?... READ MORE›
A MONTH OF MISERY IN MYANMAR'S RAKHINE
The influx adds to about 300,000 Rohingya, already located in camps around the Bangladeshi city of Cox's Bazar... READ MORE›
CITY OF LONDON TO DEBATE STRIPPING AUNG SAN SUU KYI OF FREEDOM AWARD
The decision to remove the award comes after the Oxford college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied recently removed her portrait from public display... READ MORE›
DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI CANCELS U.N. TRIP AMID OUTCRY OVER ROHINGYA SLAUGHTER
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi is prohibited under the country's Constitution from being president, because her children are British citizens, as was her husband... READ MORE›
'WE ARE GOING TO KILL YOU'
'We are going to kill you' Villagers in Burma recount violence by Rohingya Muslim militants... READ MORE›
WORLD FAILING MYANMAR'S ROHINGYA MUSLIMS, TOP RED CROSS OFFICIAL SAYS
A top Red Cross official has described the humanitarian crisis affecting Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims as unprecedented and said the world was failing in its response... READ MORE›
MYANMAR GENERAL BLAMES CRISIS ON ROHINGYA
In a Facebook post on Sunday, Gen Min Aung Hlaing urged people and the media in Myanmar to unite over the issue of the Rohingya... READ MORE›
CHINA ENDORSES MYANMAR'S CRACKDOWN; U.N. SEES 'ETHNIC CLEANSING'
Security Council on Wednesday urged Myanmar authorities to end violence, adding that the situation was best described as ethnic cleansing... READ MORE›
ARE SUU KYI'S ROHINGYA CLAIMS CORRECT?
Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been speaking about the violence and refugee crisis in Rakhine State... READ MORE›
AUNG SAN SUU KYI UNVEILS RELIEF PLANS FOR ROHINGYA MUSLIMS
In a speech carried by state TV late on Thursday, Aung San Suu Kyi said There has been a lot of criticisms against our country... READ MORE›
MEETING MYANMAR'S HARDLINE BUDDHIST MONKS
I wondered what the organisation felt about Aung San Suu Kyi's stance on the Rakhine crisis?... READ MORE›
MALALA YOUSAFZAI AND NOBEL LAUREATES CALL ON UN TO STOP MYANMAR KILLINGS
Rohingya crisis Malala Yousafzai and Nobel laureates call on UN to stop Myanmar killings... READ MORE›
MYANMAR'S AUNG SAN SUU KYI TO MISS UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE
So Aung San Suu Kyi has very little power over events in Rakhine state... READ MORE›
JAPANESE SCIENTIST WINS NOBEL MEDICINE PRIZE FOR WORK ON 'SELF-EATING' CELLS
The prize for physiology or medicine is the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year... READ MORE›
BAFFLED BY ROHINGYA STANCE UN OFFICIAL SCOLDS AUNG SAN SUU KYI
Ms. Lee spoke a day after she delivered a sharp critique of Myanmar's human rights situation to the United Nations General Assembly... READ MORE›
UNDER SIEGE IN THEIR VILLAGES, ROHINGYA STILL IN BURMA SAY THEY'RE TRAPPED
Rather, he said, it has realized that Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are exposing atrocities in Rakhine and tarnishing Burma's image... READ MORE›
BEATING PARASITES WINS THREE SCIENTISTS NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICINE
The 8 million Swedish crowns 960,000 medicine prize is the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year... READ MORE›