Myanmar bids to put traditional thanakha face powder on UN heritage list to boost cultural profile
Myanmar is applying to add thanakha to UNESCO's world Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The use of thanakha is believed to date back over 1,000 years. Murals showing is use can be seen in 11th ...
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How Burma became the world capital of crime
The civil war ravaging the Asian country hides that it is the epicenter of heroin production, synthetic drug trafficking, and ...
Opinion
My father has spent four years in a Myanmar prison – I won’t rest until he’s free
O n 1 February 2021, I went into hiding. That day, Myanmar was seized in a military coup. The country’s de facto head of state, Aung San Suu Kyi, and senior figures from the National League for ...
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Open Letter to World Leaders: Defend Myanmar’s Democracy, or Surrender SE Asia to Tyranny
The globe must summon the moral courage to stand with Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar’s people in their struggle against a brutal dictatorship.
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Bid to sell Suu Kyi's Myanmar mansion flops for third time
Myanmar's junta failed in an attempt to auction Aung San Suu Kyi's lakeside mansion on Wednesday, with no bids submitted for ...
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Myanmar Junta Bid to Sell Aung San Suu Kyi Mansion Flops for Third Time
Myanmar’s junta failed in its attempt to auction Aung San Suu Kyi’s lakeside mansion on Wednesday, with no bids submitted for the former democracy leader’s home – the third time the sale has flopped.
Third attempt to auction off the home of Myanmar’s ousted Aung San Suu Kyi fails to draw any bidders
A renewed attempt to auction off the family home of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been unsuccessful ...
Myanmar junta bid to sell Suu Kyi mansion flops for third time
Myanmar's junta failed in its attempt to auction Aung San Suu Kyi's lakeside mansion on Wednesday, with no bids submitted for ...
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Young Rohingya men are being forced to fight as foot soldiers on both sides of Myanmar’s brutal civil war
Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, became a controversial figure when she refused to condemn the brutality and defended the military regime at The Hague in 2019. Imprisoned shortly after the ...
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Myanmar marks 4 yrs since coup, eyes election without Suu Kyi's party
Myanmar on Saturday marked four years since the coup that ousted the elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi, with the junta extending a state of emergency the previous day amid an expanding ...
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No way home for Myanmar migrants stuck in Thai limbo 4 years after coup usurped Aung San Suu Kyi
Fleeing the economic ruin that followed the coup, and the threat of conscription into a military they loathe, Myanmar exiles in Thailand say that their safety comes with a new set of problems ...
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Myanmar junta extends mandate by further six months, no date given for elections
The military declared a state of emergency on 1 February, 2021, when it arrested the country's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and top officials from her government in an army takeover which reversed ...