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BEST SUPERMOON 2017 PHOTOS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Photo ANTHONY WALLACE AFP Getty Images The supermoon rises over the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 3, 2017... READ MORE›
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›
'COME YOU BACK, YOU ENGLISH SOLDIER,' UK'S TOP DIPLOMAT RECITES IN MYANMAR
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson sits in a United Nations General Assembly meeting at U.N... READ MORE›
BRITAIN'S BORIS JOHNSON IN HOT WATER OVER KIPLING COLONIAL POEM GAFFE IN MYANMAR
Britain's ambassador to Myanmar was forced to interrupt U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson earlier this year as he tried to recite a nostalgic colonial p... READ MORE›
AUNG SAN SUU KYI A MUCH-CHANGED ICON EVADES ROHINGYA ACCUSATIONS
Such a recasting of her role has disappointed Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureates... READ MORE›
MYANMAR, CHINA'S HK DISCUSS PROMOTION OF INVESTMENT, TRADE
Following her visits to Singapore and Thailand in early August, Myanmar is the third ASEAN country that the chief executive visited... READ MORE›
CHINA ENDORSES MYANMAR'S CRACKDOWN; U.N. SEES 'ETHNIC CLEANSING'
Security Council on Wednesday urged Myanmar authorities to end the violence, adding that the situation was best described as ethnic cleansing... 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›
CHINA HELPS MYANMAR IN PROMOTING TOURISM INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT
China has been helping Myanmar in promoting the development of tourism industry by opening a tourism vocational training course in Yangon... 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›
AUNG SAN SUU KYI SUPPORT STRONG DESPITE DENUNCIATIONS
The Rohingya crisis has not dampened Aung San Suu Kyi's popularity at home... 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›
Trending News Headlines : Yangon
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›
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›
EXCLUSIVE: OVERRULING DIPLOMATS, U.S. TO DROP IRAQ, MYANMAR FROM CHILD SOLDIERS' LIST
Human Rights Watch said in January that it had learned that militias had been recruiting child soldiers from one Iraqi refugee camp since last spring... 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›
SYDNEY, TOKYO, DUBLIN, CAPETOWN: WOMEN'S MARCH ON WASHINGTON GOES WORLDWIDE
In Africa, hundreds of protesters amassed in Nairobi's Karura Forest to waveA postersA and sing American protest songs... 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›
HERE'S HOW A GRANDMA'S POST ON FACEBOOK LAUNCHED THE WOMEN'S MARCH
She'll march for her newborn son, for human rights, for women's reproductive rights and for the civic-minded students she hopes to inspire... READ MORE›
SUU KYI'S NLD WINS LANDSLIDE VICTORY
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy wins a majority in Myanmar's historic election, ending decades of military-backed rule... 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›
THE INDUSTRY OF INEQUALITY: WHY THE WORLD IS OBSESSED WITH PRIVATE SECURITY
In the UK, the Confederation of European Security Services CoESS said there were 232,000 private security guards in 2015... 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›
VOTE COUNTING STARTS AFTER LANDMARK POLL
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy NLD is expected to win the most parliamentary seats, although she is barred from the presidency... READ MORE›
SENSE OF JOY IN MYANMARS HISTORIC ELECTION
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has brought star power to the election that her rivals in the military establishment lack... READ MORE›
DEMAND FOR ELEPHANT SKIN, TRUNK AND PENIS DRIVES RAPID RISE IN POACHING IN MYANMAR
After India, Myanmar has the largest population of the Asian elephant, with as few as 1,400 wild elephants and 6,000 domesticated timber elephants... 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›
MYANMARS PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES AUNG SAN SUU KYI
Of those, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, won 256 and the ruling party won 21... 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›
"I SEE LETHWEI DOING FOR MYANMAR WHAT MUAY THAI HAS DONE FOR THAILAND," SAYS 25-YEAR-OLD DAVE LEDUC
I see lethwei doing for Myanmar what muay Thai has done for Thailand, says Leduc... READ MORE›
DRUGS, MONEY AND WILDLIFE IN MYANMAR'S MOST SECRET STATE
But times in Myanmar, and in Wa state, are changing... 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›
MORE ACTION NEEDED FOR MYANMAR REFORM
Aung San Suu Kyi said she believed that the majority of the people of Myanmar were in favour of changing the law in order for her to stand... 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›