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Burma
Myanmar taxpayers are bearing the burden of repaying the loan to China Development Bank.
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Burma
Fighting between Myanmar’s army and the Arakan Army has blocked food supplies to Paletwa in Chin State and left hundreds of civilians stranded.
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A Rakhine factory worker says he was beaten by Myanmar's military in his village as fighting with the Arakan Army intensifies.
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A porn video shot by two Italians at a pagoda in World Heritage-listed Bagan and posted online has prompted calls for harsh penalties for badly behaved foreign tourists.
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The Arakan Army and the Myanmar military are trading blame as yet another shell strikes a village, this time injuring 21 young students at a school in Buthidaung.
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Asia
Bangladesh police have arrested eight suspected traffickers in Cox’s Bazar over Tuesday’s boat sinking in the Bay of Bengal that killed 15 Rohingya women and children.
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Burma
A team of Yangon scholars says the city enters the pollution red zone each morning, where otherwise healthy people can suffer health problems.
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Asia
The US attorney general has announced that four Chinese hackers have been charged in connection with the 2017 Equifax data breach.
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On This Day
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Asia
One member of Thailand's security forces was killed in a raid into a shopping mall to try to stop a soldier on a rampage that has now killed at least 21 people.
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Burma
The Kachin Baptist Convention says it is in talks with the military to secure the release of two pastors who allowed a Kachin Revolution Day event in their church.
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Photo Essay
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From the Archive
Three years after the murder of prominent NLD lawyer U Ko Ni, The Irrawaddy revisits a 2019 commentary on the history of political assassinations in modern Myanmar.
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Authorities nearly caught a group of poachers red-handed in an Ayeyarwady forest reserve Friday when they found a dead wild elephant skinned with its trunk cut off.
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Kayan leaders are calling on authorities in the Pa-O Self-Administered Zone to act after a statue of the Virgin Mary belonging to a catholic Kayan community was destroyed.
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