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Myanmar: Junta-backed party projected to win elections
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
As Myanmar opens up with the polls, the junta-backed party is tipped to win the elections, Jakarta Post reported on Sunday, citing Reuters.
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Myanmar junta holds first elections since coup amid ongoing civil war
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The poll marks the first nationwide election organised by the junta since it seized power in February 2021, a takeover that triggered mass protests and plunged the country into a brutal civil war that continues to this day.
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Myanmar junta extends state of emergency on coup's fourth anniversary
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Myanmar's military has prolonged its state of emergency for another six months as it struggles to maintain control, with intense fighting continuing across the country, according to a report by Al Jazeera.
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ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar junta chief over Rohingya
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
The military campaign forced approximately 700,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh amid widespread reports of massacres, rape, and arson.
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Japanese supermarket chain operator official detained in Myanmar for alleg
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Aeon named the official as Hiroshi Kasamatsu, 53, an employee of Aeon Orange Co, adding it would cooperate with local authorities' investigations while seeking support from the Japanese Embassy in Myanmar.
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China mediating between Myanmar junta, ethnic rebels mainly due to self-in
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
According to the experts, China's goals in convening the peace talk between the military and the Three Brotherhood Alliance, held most recently in Kunming on December 20, is two-fold.
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Centre takes cognizance as airstrike at Indo-Myanmar border triggers fresh
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Central Intelligence agencies are keeping a close watch as the gunbattle in Myanmar triggered a fresh influx of refugees in Mizoram.
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Myanmar junta arrests 14 including Swiss national for film deemed offensiv
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
A Swiss national and 13 Myanmar citizens were on August 8 arrested by the military junta for working on a film that authorities say harms Buddhist culture and tradition, CNN reported citing Myanmar state-funded media.
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Myanmar junta reduces ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi's prison sentences by
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Myanmar Junta reduced the prison sentences of the country's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi by six years in clemency connected to a religious holiday.
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Myanmar junta extends state of emergency by another six months
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Members of Myanmar’s National Defence and Security Council (NDSC) on Monday decided to extend the state of emergency in the country and the term of the junta led by Min Aung Hlaing for another six months, Myanmar Now reported citing an announcement broadcast by state-run media. The decision
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Report cites how new face of Chinese investment in Myanmar represents crim
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The rise of Wan Kuok Koi — popularly known as ‘Broken Tooth’— and the enterprises run by him and his associates represent the new face of Chinese investment in Myanmar—and the criminalization of the country under the current junta, The Irrawaddy reported.
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Peace talks in Myanmar highlight China's influence
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The talks were held over two days in the Mongla region in northern Myanmar's Shan state, near the Chinese border. According to local reports, the meetings were attended by Guo Bao, China's special envoy from the neighbouring Chinese province Yunnan's Foreign Affairs Department, VOA reported.
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