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BANGKOK/KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is attempting to use Myanmar's devastating earthquake to forge a breakthrough in the country's protracted civil war between the ...
Myanmar's military rulers and representatives of the country's opposition seem ready to extend a ceasefire, Malaysia's prime minister says. Fighting in the strife-riven nation was put on hold ...
BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new year, state-run media reported Thursday, and an ...
BANGKOK — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and the leader of Myanmar’s military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, met in the Thai capital on Thursday for talks widely assumed to ...
The UAE has dispatched urgent humanitarian aid to Myanmar as part of its rapid response to the repercussions of the recent earthquake that struck the country. The aid shipment comprises more than ...
MANILA, Philippines — A second Filipino fatality from the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar last month has been positively identified, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA ...
As Burma, also known as Myanmar, struggles in the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake, Reverend Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, praised the swift cooperation of the Burmese ...
MANILA, Philippines — One of four Filipinos missing after last month's devastating Myanmar earthquake has been found dead, the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Wednesday, April 9.
A total of 98 aftershocks have hit Myanmar since a devastating earthquake struck the country, according to the country's Department of Meteorology and Hydrology on Tuesday. These tremors ranged in ...
Myanmar's recent announcement to repatriate 180,000 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh has drawn international attention. But beneath this statement lies a familiar and troubling pattern.
Outside Myanmar, few countries support the junta and many openly oppose the military government and its deplorable activities against their citizens. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations/ASEAN ...
ith increased contact between the international community and Myanmar’s junta government following a deadly 7.7-magnitude earthquake in late March, ASEAN should consider intensifying its ...