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Over 500 Feared Dead In Two Suspected Shipwrecks Off Myanmar

THE United Nations warned Thursday that more than 500 people were feared dead following reports of two large shipwrecks off Myanmar since late.

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Dozens Killed In Explosives’ Depot Blast In Northeast Myanmar

DOZENS of people have been killed in an explosion in northeast Myanmar near the border with China, local media and a rebel group.

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Polls Open In Myanmar As Military Holds First Election Since 2021 Coup

POLLS have opened in Myanmar’s first general election since the country’s military toppled Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government in.

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Myanmar Arrests Six-Year-Old Girl, 16 Others Over Killing Of General

MYANMAR authorities have arrested 16 people including a six-year-old girl over the assassination of a retired general shot dead in Yangon last month,.

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Over 420 Persons Feared Drowned In Two Shipwrecks Off Myanmar Coast, UN Says

AT LEAST 427 Rohingya, Myanmar’s Muslim minority, may have perished at sea in two shipwrecks on May 9 and 10, the United Nations.

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Myanmar Military Announces Temporary Truce As Quake Death Toll Passes 3,000

MYANMAR’s governing military has declared a unilateral, temporary ceasefire in the country’s civil war to facilitate rescue efforts after last week’s powerful earthquake,.

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Myanmar Earthquake Death Toll Passes 1,000 As Rescuers Dig For Survivors

THE death toll from a huge earthquake that hit Myanmar and Thailand passed 1,000 on Saturday, as rescuers dug through the rubble of.

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45,000 Rohingya Flee Amid Allegations Of Beheading, Burning In Myanmar

ESCALATING violence in conflict-torn Myanmar’s Rakhine State has forced another 45,000 minority Rohingya to flee, the United Nations warned, amid allegations of beheadings,.

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Myanmar Junta Enforces Compulsory Military Service For Young Men, Women

MYANMAR’s junta is enforcing a law allowing the military to summon all men aged 18-35 and women aged 18-27 to serve for at.

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Bomb Blast In Myanmar Kills Two, Wounds Over A Dozen

A BOMB blast in northern Myanmar killed two people and wounded more than a dozen on Wednesday, a military source and a member.

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Aung San Suu Kyi Gets Seven More Years Jail Term

A MYANMAR military court has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to a further seven years in prison, taking her overall jail time to.

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