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POPE CALLS FOR UNITY IN MYANMAR WITHOUT SAYING 'ROHINGYA'
Rohingya refugees line up to get food aid from a local NGO after arriving from Myanmar at the Balukali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh... 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›
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›
POPE FRANCIS ARRIVES IN MYANMAR
Pope Francis Arrives in a Myanmar Tarnished by Rohingya Crackdown... 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›
CHINA PROPOSES BUILDING CHINA-MYANMAR ECONOMIC CORRIDOR TO BOOST COOPERATION
China has proposed building an economic corridor with Myanmar to further enhance bilateral pragmatic cooperation, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here Sunday... READ MORE›
JAPAN'S ANA DITCHES MYANMAR'S ASIAN BLUE AIRLINE PROJECT
ANA, which operates daily flights between Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon and Tokyo, holds a 8.8 percent stake in Vietnam Airlines... READ MORE›
HE CAPTURED A FRESH START FOR MYANMAR AND THEN ITS DESCENT INTO TRAGEDY
The New Yorker called Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace prizewinner, the Ignoble Laureate ... READ MORE›
MASSIVE FIRE GUTS ICONIC MYANMAR HOTEL
Guests have been moved to other hotels in Yangon... READ MORE›
MYANMAR ARMY CHIEF SAYS ROHINGYA MUSLIMS NOT NATIVE, REFUGEE NUMBERS EXAGGERATED
The military campaign is popular in Myanmar, where there is little sympathy for the Rohingya, and where Buddhist nationalism has surged... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS TO VISIT MYANMAR AS ANTI-ROHINGYA HATRED SEETHES
Myanmar has a small, roughly half-a-million Catholic population, mainly in the remote north... READ MORE›
MYANMAR ARMY OPERATION AIMED AT PREVENTING RETURN OF ROHINGYA MUSLIMS, SAYS UNITED NATIONS
The UN human rights report is based on interviews with 65 Rohingya victims who have fled to Bangladesh following the violence on August 25... READ MORE›
UN RECALLS TOP OFFICIAL IN MYANMAR
Since then Ms Dessallien has remained in post with the government of Myanmar Burma rejecting her proposed successor... READ MORE›
THE STORY NOT BEING TALKED ABOUT IN MYANMAR
In Yangon, news of the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar's western region of Rakhine is largely untold... READ MORE›
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MALAYSIAN SHIP WITH AID FOR ROHINGYA DOCKS IN MYANMAR
We've document atrocities, serious crimes that have been committed by Myanmar's security forces, Matthew Smith, executive director of the group Fortify Rights, told Al Jazeera... READ MORE›
MYANMAR ARRESTS BUDDHISTS ACCUSED OF TARGETING MUSLIMS
Arrests follow scuffles in Muslim-dominated areas in Yangon and forcible closures of two Islamic schools by Buddhists... READ MORE›
AUNG SAN SUU KYI SUPPORT STRONG DESPITE DENUNCIATIONS
The Rohingya crisis has not dampened Aung San Suu Kyi's popularity at home... READ MORE›
BURMESE MILITARY KILLED SEVEN OF MY CHILDREN, SAYS ROHINGYA REFUGEE
The former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan was recently permitted to visit the state and interviewed villagers in Kyet Yoe Pyin on 3 December... READ MORE›
ARSA REBELS DECLARE TRUCE AMID ROHINGYA CRISIS
The ceasefire announced on Saturday in a statement by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army ARSA is scheduled to start on Sunday... READ MORE›
AUNG SAN SUU KYI: MYANMAR'S GREAT HOPE FAILS TO LIVE UP TO EXPECTATIONS
Aung San Suu Kyi's government has angrily dismissed many of the claims as fabrications ... READ MORE›
MYANMAR MILITARY PLANE 'CARRYING 116' MISSING
A Myanmar military plane carrying more than 100 people has gone missing between Yangon and the southern city of Myeik, officials said... READ MORE›
A SLEEPY TOURIST UNPLUGGED A LOUDSPEAKER PLAYING RELIGIOUS MUSIC IN BURMA -- NOW HE'S HEADED TO PRISON
Klaas Haytema said he was only trying to get some sleep, but a local court didn't buy his excuse... READ MORE›
DEADLY CLASHES ERUPT IN MYANMAR'S RESTIVE RAKHINE STATE
The office of Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, announced the death toll in a statement on Friday... READ MORE›
MYANMAR LAWYER HAD SPARRED WITH MILITARY OVER CONSTITUTION BEFORE HE WAS KILLED
A canny constitutional lawyer, Mr. Ko Ni had outmaneuvered the military before... READ MORE›
WRECKAGE OF MISSING MYANMAR MILITARY PLANE IS FOUND
Last year, a Beechcraft trainer plane for the air force crashed near the capital, Naypyidaw, killing five people... READ MORE›
MYANMAR COURT FINDS TRIO GUILTY OF INSULTING RELIGION
Philip Blackwood, who managed the VGastro Bar in Yangon, was arrested in December along with bar owner Tun Thurein and colleague Htut Ko Ko Lwin... READ MORE›
MYANMAR VOTE HAS OPPOSITION PARTY CONFIDENT OF VICTORY
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest for 15 years while the military was in control, emerging as a national democracy hero... 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›
OBAMA SAYS US PREPARED TO LIFT MYANMAR SANCTIONS
Obama US prepared to lift Myanmar sanctions after meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi... READ MORE›
MYANMAR SENTENCES 3 TO PRISON FOR DEPICTING BUDDHA WEARING HEADPHONES
The court in Yangon said the image denigrated Buddhism and was a violation of Myanmar's religion act, which prohibits insulting, damaging or destroying religion... READ MORE›
SUU KYI'S MAN IN YANGON UNDER FIRE OVER TRANSIT DEAL WITH CHINA
But the Yangon bus deal underscores that Suu Kyi's backers in the West have grown disillusioned as Myanmar increasingly prefers to do business with China... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS FLEE TO CHINA AFTER MNDAA ATTACK ON ARMY
The violence threatens the goal of Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to reach peace with minorities... READ MORE›
AFTER AUNG SAN SUU KYIS FIRST YEAR IN POWER, DISMAY SWIRLS IN MYANMAR
Five cases have been brought by supporters of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi against people they claim defamed her, Mr. Maung said... READ MORE›
RURAL MYANMAR VOTERS LINE UP AGAINST EX-GENERALS
Like many farmers here, he said he favored the opposition, the National League for Democracy, led by Myanmar's democracy hero, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi... READ MORE›
AMID ROHINGYA PROBLEM, ALL EYES ON PM MODI'S MYANMAR STOPOVER
In mid-August, after an attack attributed to the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army killed 10 policemen, the Myanmar Army has launched a new crackdown in Rakhine... READ MORE›
ROHINGYA WHO FLED TO BANGLADESH RECOUNT RAPE, MURDER AT HANDS OF MYANMAR FORCES
While survivors and human rights groups have tracked waves of anti-Rohingya violence in recent weeks, the Myanmar government insists that stories like Begum's are exaggerations... READ MORE›
MYANMAR GENERALS SET STAGE FOR AN EXIT
But the outcome appears to stem from the simple fact that veneration for Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi was underestimated and the ruling party's strength overestimated... READ MORE›
MYANMAR FACES MOUNTING PRESSURE OVER ROHINGYA REFUGEE EXODUS
Exhausted Rohingya refugees rest on the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, September 10, 2017... READ MORE›
EXHUMED MYANMAR JOURNALIST 'BEATEN'
But Aung Naing's death has led some to question whether the army has changed... READ MORE›
AUNG SAN SUU KYI SLAMS 'ICEBERG OF 'MISINFORMATION' OVER ROHINGYA
Earlier this year United Nations investigators said Myanmar's military has used devastating cruelty in its security crackdown in what might constitute ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya... READ MORE›
MYANMAR PARLIAMENT ELECTS HTIN KYAW AS FIRST CIVILIAN PRESIDENT IN 53 YEARS
Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent 15 of 21 years under house arrest, has two British sons... READ MORE›
BY-ELECTIONS TO TEST AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S POPULARITY
Saturday's elections are the first since the country voted Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD into office in 2016... READ MORE›
SUU KYI PLANS MYANMAR RECONCILIATION GOVERNMENT WITH ROLE 'ABOVE PRESIDENT'
Aung San Suu Kyi expressed concerns about the electoral roll and said the election process is less than totally free and fair ... READ MORE›
MYANMAR SAYS CHINA ENDORSES CRACKDOWN OF ROHINGYA WHICH U.N. SEES AS "ETHNIC CLEANSING"
REUTERS Mohammad Ponir Hossain China endorses Myanmar's offensive against Rohingya Muslim insurgents, Myanmar state media said on Thursday, as the U.N... READ MORE›