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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.
Myanmar's civilian president resigns 'to take rest'
Reuters, Published on 21/03/2018
» YANGON: Myanmar's civilian president Htin Kyaw has resigned with immediate effect "in order to take rest from the current duties and responsibilities", his office said in a statement posted on Facebook on Wednesday.
Zimbabwe ruling party ‘to kick out Mugabe today’
Reuters, Published on 19/11/2017
» JOHANNESBURG: Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party will remove 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe as its leader at a special meeting of its central committee on Sunday and kick him out, the head of the powerful liberation war veterans said.
Tillerson: Individual sanctions more likely for Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 15/11/2017
» NAY PYI DAW: US secretary of state Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that his country was deeply concerned by "credible reports" of atrocities committed by Myanmar's security forces and called for an independent investigation into a humanitarian crisis that has seen hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya flee to Bangladesh.
Journalists charged after contacting Myanmar rebels
Reuters, Published on 28/06/2017
» YANGON -- Myanmar's military opened legal proceedings on Wednesday against three journalists accused of aiding ethnic minority rebels, police said, compounding concern about the erosion or press freedom as the country transitions towards civilian rule.
Hun Sen shepherds new 'death to democracy' law
Reuters, Published on 21/02/2017
» PHNOM PENH - Cambodia's parliament amended a law on Monday to stop anyone convicted of an offence from running for office, effectively barring long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen's main rival.
Suu Kyi races to change charter
Reuters, Published on 30/06/2014
» With elections looming next year, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is stepping up efforts to change a constitution that bars her from the presidency and gives substantial political power to unelected military members of parliament.