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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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Panasonic provides electricity to rural areas of Myanmar
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], Jul 26 (ANI): An estimated 1.1 billion of the people in the world lives without electricity.
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China must reduce Myanmarese bias to its projects
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], June 28 (ANI): The public in Myanmar has a strong general bias against foreign investment in the natural resource sector, a new research has warned, and added that China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) could face stiff public
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Myanmar, UN ink deal to repatriate Rohingya
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar] June 7 (ANI): Myanmar and the United Nations agencies have inked an agreement which could facilitate repatriation of about 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees.
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7 Myanmar soldiers sentenced to 10 years over Rohingya killings
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], Apr 11 (ANI): The Myanmar military has sentenced seven of its soldiers to 10 years of hard labour over the massacre of 10 Rohingyas, according to the country's state media on Wednesday.
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Aung San Suu Kyi seeks help from ASEAN leaders with Rohingya crisis
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], Mar. 19 (ANI): Burmese politician and diplomat, Aung San Suu Kyi, has reportedly sought help with the ongoing Rohingya crisis, from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) nations and Australia, in a closed-door meeting.
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Bomb explosions hit Myanmar's Rakhine state
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], Feb 24 (ANI): A series of four bomb explosions occurred on Saturday in Sittwe, capital of Myanmar's western Rakhine state.
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EBARA holds seminars on water pumps in Myanmar
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], February 23 (ANI): EBARA Corporation recently held a seminar on pump technology at Myanmar Engineering Society (MES). The two-day event started on February 15 in Yangon.
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B'desh provide Myanmar list of Rohingyas refugees
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], Feb 20 (ANI): Bangladesh has provided Myanmar with a list of over 8,000 Rohingya refugees and has asked the latter to have their backgrounds checked before the repatriation process begins, its home ministry said on Saturday.
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Aung San Suu Kyi's residential compound attacked
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], Feb 1 (ANI): A petrol bomb on Thursday morning was thrown into Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi's residential compound in Yangon.
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Rohingyas attack Myanmar Army truck, injure 5 soldiers
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], Jan 6 (ANI): Rohingya insurgents on Saturday launched an assault on the Myanmar Army, attacking its truck in the restive state of Rakhine, and injured five soldiers in the process.
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India sends relief material to Myanmar
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 25 (ANI): India has sent relief material for distribution amongst the displaced persons in Myanmar's restive Rakhine State.
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