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Myanmar: Jailed Reuters journalists to appeal against prison sentence
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Dec 24 (ANI): The two jailed Reuters journalists in Myanmar - Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo - will be lodging an appeal on Monday challenging the seven-year prison sentence handed to them under the country's Official Secrets Act in September this year.
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Jamal Khashoggi among scribes named TIME's Person of the Year 2018
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [USA], Dec 11 (ANI): Four journalists, including slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and a newspaper, dubbed as the 'Guardians of the Truth' have received this year's coveted title of Person of the Year by TIME magazine.
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Indonesia plane crash: Search and rescue operation underway
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia] Oct 29: Search and rescue operation is underway in waters of Karawang Bay to track down survivors of Lion Air flight which crashed in the sea on Monday morning.
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Myanmar journalists get 7 years' imprisonment for breaching official secre
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], Sept 3 (ANI): Two Reuters journalists, accused of breaching Myanmar's official secrets act during their reporting of the Rohingya crisis, have been sentenced to seven years each in jail by a Yangon court.
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Amnesty International asks Maldives to release 'peaceful' protesters
Updated : 8 years ago IST
London [United Kingdom], Feb 28 (ANI): Amnesty International has called on the authorities in the Maldives to immediately and unconditionally release the people "arbitrarily" detained under the State of Emergency (SOE) and halt attacks on "peaceful" protesters.
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'Emergency in Maldives extended against our Constitution'
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Male [Maldives], Feb 22 (ANI): Former Maldivian Deputy Minister of Education Dr Ahmed Riyaz, who lately resigned, underscored that the State of Emergency (SOE) in the country, which has been extended for an additional 30 days, is "against our Constitution".
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4 dead in Jakarta flash floods
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], Feb 6 (ANI): Four people were killed and two went missing after torrential rains lashed the Indonesian capital and its suburbs since Monday evening, local authorities said on Tuesday.
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UN Chief calls on Myanmar to free arrested journalists
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], Dec 15 (ANI): Condemning the arrest of two journalists in Myanmar, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated that their arrest indicated that press freedom is shrinking in Southeast Asian country and the international community must do all it can to get th
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Myanmar Consul General Pyi Soe dies in road accident
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Giridh (Jharkhand) [India], October 27 (ANI): Myanmar Consul General Pyi Soe died in a road accident in Jharkhand on Friday.
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China's SOEs - Economic revolution or noose around the neck?
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong,[China] Nov.22 (ANI): Even as the leadership in China consistently maintains that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are the "root and soul" of the country's economic well-being, a difference of opinion appears to have surfaced between President Xi Jinping and Premier L
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Hydropower dams, major development projects halted in Shan State till reas
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Naypyidaw, July 8 (ANI): The Naungpha hydropower dam along with several other major projects in Shan State have been suspended until cost-benefit field analyses, environmental analyses and social impact assessments are performed, said State Minister for Finance and Planning, U Soe Nyunt Lwin
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