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Standing Committee statement repeats objection to Tatmadaw’s “new” conditions for implementing the NCA
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Dateline
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Asia
Cambodian PM told his ministers to ease pressure on labor union leaders, after threats by the EU to remove the Southeast Asian country's duty-free trading access.
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Some of the candidates who lost a race to the USDP question the ballots the military-backed party won in early voting on military bases, where monitoring is heavily restricted.
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Burma
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By Saturday evening, ruling party was facing defeat to USDP and ethnic parties in five races; full results due Sunday
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Burma
The ruling party has vowed to start delivering on its promises, but it faces a tough fight in ethnic areas and a newly confident USDP in Saturday’s vote
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In Person
Nang Htwe Hmone is one of only seven women among the 69 candidates in Saturday's poll, but she feels confident about becoming Mandalay's next Shan ethnic affairs minister.
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An entrenched, male-dominated ‘security approach’ has left the peace process deadlocked.
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Asia
A political crisis in Sri Lanka took a deadly turn days after the president removed the prime minister and installed a powerful ally of China in his place.
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Cambodia failed to allay criticisms of authoritarianism and rights abuses that threaten the country's duty-free trading access to the European Union.
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Burma
Portraits of party chairman and local candidate for Nov. 3 by-election defaced in Myingyan Township
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The sanctions would include Myanmar's lucrative textile industry and potentially put at risk thousands of jobs but would not come into effect immediately.
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Dozens of stakeholders swap ideas with government officials at informal talks in Yangon
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