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Wang Xing was abducted in Thailand by increasingly bold crime gangs operating in Myanmar, putting an entire tourism industry at riskWang Xing thought he was travelling to a casting call with film producers in Thailand.The 22-year-old Chinese actor, als…
続きを読むUS authorities charged Takeshi Ebisawa with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar for expected use by Iran in nuclear weaponsA member of the Japanese criminal underworld has pleaded guilty to handling nuclear material sourced from Myanm…
続きを読むIt was not clear whether Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been held virtually incommunicado since 2021 coup, would be among those releasedMyanmar’s military government will release about 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates’ sentences as part of a ma…
続きを読むOver the holidays, this column will explore next year’s urgent issues. Today we look at the crisis in western democracy, Donald Trump’s victory and the role played by digital mediaIn November 2020, shortly after Donald Trump’s defeat in the U…
続きを読むFrom an exuberant mountaineering woman to a boy representing unheard refugees, here are some of the brave individuals that gave us hopeNine years ago, Cecilia Llusco was one of 11 Indigenous women who made it to the summit of the 6,088 metre-high Huayn…
続きを読むThe regional command at Ann would be the second regional military command to fall to ethnic rebels in five months, and a huge blow to the militaryA rebel army in Myanmar said it had captured a major military headquarters in the country’s west, marking …
続きを読むDocumentary shows the gruelling labour put in by a married couple wringing out drops of black gold as their son looks for a different livingIn Saeed Taji Farouky’s impressionistic documentary, the act of manual labour gains a sensorial, almost celestia…
続きを読むMin Aung Hlaing accused of crimes against humanity over deportation and persecution of Rohingya minorityThe chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) is seeking an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s military leader, Min Aung Hlaing, for crim…
続きを読むWars have spread and intensified, with far-reaching impacts on global economic growth and food security, according to latest Conflict Intensity IndexThe proportion of the world engulfed by conflict has grown 65% – equivalent to nearly double the size o…
続きを読むExclusive: a UN report will accuse the military of imposing ‘collective punishment’ on Rakhine state, more than three years after seizing power in a coupTwo million people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state could face starvation within months because fierce co…
続きを読むTen children reportedly among those killed during intense aerial campaigns last monthMyanmar’s military has launched some of its heaviest aerial campaigns since the 2021 coup in recent months, killing at least 26 people in a series of attacks in early …
続きを読むAfter a string of humiliating defeats, the army has turned to press-ganging young men into frontline duty – leaving distraught families unaware of their fateThan Htun, 29, was still in bed when the men came to his home in Yangon to take him away. “He c…
続きを読むAs attacks on the press rise, the House of Critical Voices offers sanctuary for media workers exposing abusesWith its nuclear bunker, textured walls and Bauhaus furniture, the former training school for combat troops might not look like a hotel, but fo…
続きを読むExperts unsurprised at intensity of extreme weather but say damage wreaked shows how unprepared world isEurope floods – latest updatesPicturesque towns across central Europe are inundated by dirty flood water after heavy weekend rains turned tranquil s…
続きを読むAt least 320,000 people have been displaced and 64 were still missing after the strongest storm to hit Asia this yearMyanmar’s death toll from floods rose to at least 113, the country’s military government said, following heavy rains brought on by Typh…
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