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On This Day
On this day in 1989, the then-military government changed the names of 165 streets in Yangon, dropping their English colonial names in favor of Burmese language replacements.
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Burma
Health care workers are being evicted by landlords concerned about the spread of COVID-19 but other local residents of Mandalay have opened their doors to them.
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Burma
A 36-year-old travelling from the United States and 26-year-old returning from Britain, both Myanmar nationals, had tested positive.
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Burma
Bangladesh’s foreign minister says Myanmar’s response to the Rohingya refugee crisis has been woeful.
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Burma
Some 21 villagers were killed and dozens hurt when fighter jets allegedly strafed several villages in Chin State’s Paletwa amid fierce clashes with the AA, locals said.
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Burma
Two journalists detained by a Myanmar military-backed Border Guard Force in Karen State say the armed group beat and threatened them.
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Editorial
As China’s influence grows, Myanmar would do well to seek stronger contributions from India to the country’s development, democratic transition and military capacity.
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Burma
Professor William Schabas, who defended Myanmar at the International Court of Justice against genocide charges, will deliver a lecture at Yangon University on March 5.
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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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Burma
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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Burma
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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Burma
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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