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Facebook losing the war on Myanmar hate speech
Reuters, Published on 16/08/2018
» YANGON: In April, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told US senators that the social media site was hiring dozens more Burmese speakers to review hate speech posted in Myanmar. The situation was dire.
How two young reporters shook Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 09/08/2018
» YANGON: Late in the afternoon of Dec 12 last year, Wa Lone's cell phone rang. It was a man named Naing Lin, a lance corporal in Myanmar's 8th Security Police Battalion.
Scientists say cost of sucking carbon from thin air could tumble
Reuters, Published on 08/06/2018
» OSLO: High costs of extracting greenhouse gases from thin air could tumble with new technologies that can help to combat climate change, scientists said on Thursday.
How the families of 10 massacred Rohingya fled Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 12/04/2018
» KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh: Rehana Khatun dreamed her husband came home. He appeared without warning in their village in western Myanmar, outside their handsome wooden house shaded by mango trees. "He didn't say anything," she said. "He was only there for a few seconds, and then he was gone." Then Rehana Khatun woke up.
Arrested Myanmar reporter's friends pour out hearts on social media
Reuters, Published on 04/01/2018
» YANGON: Ever since Reuters Myanmar reporter Wa Lone was arrested on Dec 12 on suspicion of violating the Official Secrets Act, friends and former colleagues have poured out their hearts and expressed hopes for his release on social media.
Rohingya refugee children forced into labour, marriage
Reuters, Published on 14/11/2017
» COX'S BAZAR/KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh: Rohingya refugee children from Myanmar are working punishing hours for paltry pay in Bangladesh, with some suffering beatings and sexual assault, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has found.
In Kim Jong Un's summer palace, fun meets guns
Reuters, Published on 10/10/2017
» SEOUL: In the seaside city of Wonsan, North Korean families cook up barbecues on the beach, go fishing, and eat royal jelly flavour ice cream in the summer breeze. For their leader Kim Jong Un, the resort is a summer retreat, a future temple to tourism, and a good place to test missiles.
Scientists explore new hi-tech ways to cool planet
Reuters, Published on 26/07/2017
» OSLO -- Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon to dim the sun's rays as part of a climate engineering push to cool the planet.