Myanmar 2015: The battle has begun

Bangkok, March 28: Myanmar's military asserted its role in the country's politics at a ceremony yesterday that featured a prominent guest, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate, whose presence among the generals would have been unthinkable a few ...

Jammu, Mar 15 (PTI) A Myanmarese national was tonight arrested when he tried to intrude an Army cantonment here."At around 1930 hours, a civilian intruder was apprehended while trying to jump over the wall of the cantonment in Jammu," Defence PRO ...

Imphal, May 14: Indian and Myanmarese armies have strengthened border vigil, improved co-ordination and intelligence sharing following the setting up of the Regional Border Committee to check cross-border militancy and unlawful activities along the ...

The arrest of 15 new recruits of the Songbijit faction of the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) on early Friday morning while they were on their way to Myanmar for training underlines the fact that the neighbouring country continues to be ...

Last month, as the anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar spread from Rakhine state in the western part of the country to the central city of Meiktila, Aung San Suu Kyi sat among the generals on the reviewing stand as the army marched past on Armed Forces ...

Bangkok - Myanmarese authorities were complicit in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya Muslim minority group last year, Human Rights Watch alleged on Monday. In a 153-page report based on interviews with more than 100 victims of ...

More than 40 people have been killed in Meikhtila (or Meiktila), during March 2013 in the violence between the majority Buddhists and the minority Muslim minority. Last year, there were two rounds of violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine ...

the straits times/annThere is irony in Myanmar's reform. While President Thein Sein has been remarkably bold in liberalising political and economic structures and opening up foreign relations, the government's old nemesis, the National League for ...

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