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Why Myanmar’s war matters, even if the world is not watching
New York Times, Published on 20/04/2024
» SEOUL — An escalating civil war threatens to break apart a country of roughly 55 million people that sits between China and India. That has international consequences, but the conflict has not commanded wide attention.
Cambodia internet soon to be like China
New York Times, Published on 15/01/2022
» PHNOM PENH: The day Kea Sokun was arrested in Cambodia, four men in plainclothes showed up at his photography shop near Angkor Wat and carted him off to the police station. Kea Sokun, who is also a popular rapper, had released two songs on YouTube, and the men said they needed to know why he had written them.
‘Better to walk through a minefield’: victims of Burma Army speak
New York Times, Published on 09/03/2021
» The soldiers from Myanmar’s army knocked on U Thein Aung’s door one morning last April as he was having tea with friends, and demanded that all of them accompany the platoon to another village.
Born in blood, Myanmar's army prospers
New York Times, Published on 29/01/2018
» YANGON: For Myanmar's army, the campaign of atrocity it has waged to drive hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims out of the country is no innovation. The force was born in blood 76 years ago and has been shedding it ever since.
Philippine leader, focused on drugs, ignored IS
New York Times, Published on 11/06/2017
» MANILA -- It was classic bravado from the Philippines’ tough-guy president, Rodrigo Duterte. The Maute Group, a militant Islamic band fighting government troops near the southern Philippines city of Marawi last year, had asked for a cease-fire.
Winds of change rock age-old Myanmar lake
New York Times, Published on 29/05/2017
» LONTON, Myanmar -- Cresting a mountain pass on a freshly bulldozed road, Indawgyi Lake and its valley appear below, pastoral and calm.
‘Doomsday today in Aleppo’
New York Times, Published on 24/09/2016
» RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - Syria’s war escalated abruptly on Friday as government forces and their Russian allies launched ferocious aerial assaults on opposition-held areas of Aleppo amid threats of a big ground offensive, while efforts at the United Nations to revive a cease-fire appeared to collapse.
Syria talks inch ahead as fighting continues
New York Times, Published on 01/02/2016
» GENEVA — As a suicide attack killed more than 40 people near a revered shrine in Syria Sunday and government forces pummelled a besieged town, peace talks inched forward in Geneva, where a reluctant opposition delegation met for the first time with a United Nations mediator.