Myanmar
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Look to Myanmar for a vision of a world where authoritarians have unfettered power | Simon Tisdall
The brutality and repression there highlight the failings of a dysfunctional world order. Unless we do better,…
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Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people
Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such a…
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Historic Myanmar bridge destroyed in fighting
The renowned Gokteik bridge was bombed on Sunday, with the ruling military junta and rebel forces blaming each…
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London museum tells forgotten story of African and Indian troops in second world war
National Army Museum’s Beyond Burma exhibition examines stories of soldiers from Britain’s coloniesThe forgott…
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Myanmar army detaining two-year-olds as proxies for parents, witnesses tell UN
Investigators warn in a report that ‘frequency and brutality’ of atrocities in the country are continuing to e…
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Myanmar military junta using European technology for drone attacks, report says
Junta obtained ‘anti-jamming’ product made in Europe through a Chinese company, research finds, triggering cal…
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Myanmar junta ends state of emergency as it prepares for elections
Opposition groups have vowed to snub poll that has been dismissed as ‘a fraud’ designed to legitimise military…
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Shunned Myanmar leader thrilled at US contact after Trump tariff letter
Min Aung Hlaing expresses ‘sincere appreciation’ for letter from US president threatening 40% tariffMyanmar’s …
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South Sudan says eight deportees from the US are under government care
Deportees include two people from Myanmar, two from Cuba, and one each from Vietnam, Laos and MexicoWar-torn S…
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How refugees have helped save these midwestern cities: ‘That’s really something we celebrate’
In places like Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis, blighted neighborhoods and economies have been transformedAt a …
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Leaked footage and prison logs reveal Aung San Suu Kyi’s life in detention
Exclusive: Video and documents give rare glimpse inside daily life of the imprisoned civilian leader as she ne…
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Patricia Herbert obituary
From 1975 until 1998, my mother-in-law, Patricia Herbert, who has died aged 81, was the south-east Asia curato…
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Venezuela says being in US is ‘great risk’ as countries respond to Trump travel ban
Caracas describes US government as fascist, Somalia vows to address security and Iranian Americans express reg…
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‘They told me that they’d hunt me down’: journalists on how they survive working in war zones
With a record number of journalists killed over the past year, four reporters covering conflicts across the wo…
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Trump officials ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan
Immigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s…