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  • Soldiers stand guard along a blockaded road near Myanmar's Parliament in Naypyidaw on 2 February 2021, as Myanmar's generals appeared in firm control a day after a surgical coup that saw democracy heroine Aung San Suu Kyi detained. Picture: AFP

    Civil disobedience calls sprout in Myanmar after coup

    Myanmar was plunged back into direct military rule when soldiers detained Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders in a series of dawn raids on Monday, ending the country's brief experiment with democracy.

    76 days ago
  • A soldier stands guard in City Hall in Yangon on 1 February 2021, after Myanmar's military seized power in a bloodless coup on Monday, detaining democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi as it imposed a one-year state of emergency. Picture: AFP

    Myanmar coup just a 'cabinet reshuffle': Chinese state media

    Beijing called for all parties in Myanmar to 'resolve their differences', and the official Xinhua news agency on Monday described the military replacing elected ministers after the coup as a 'major cabinet reshuffle'.

    77 days ago
  • FILE: A handout photo released on 10 December 2019 by the International Court of Justice shows Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi attending the start of a three-day hearing on the Rohingya genocide case before the UN International Court of Justice at the Peace Palace of The Hague. Picture: AFP

    Ousted Myanmar party calls for release of Suu Kyi, other leaders

    Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader, was detained by the military in the early hours of Monday along with President Win Myint.

    77 days ago
  • FILE: Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Picture: United Nations Photo

    Myanmar army pledges new elections, power transfer following coup

    The army issued a statement hours after the army took power, detaining de facto leader Suu Kyi, declaring a state of emergency, and appointing ex-general Myint Swe as acting president.

    78 days ago
  • FILE: A handout photo released on 10 December 2019 by the International Court of Justice shows Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi attending the start of a three-day hearing on the Rohingya genocide case before the UN International Court of Justice at the Peace Palace of The Hague. Picture: AFP

    Myanmar's military stages coup, detains Aung San Suu Kyi

    The intervention came after weeks of rising tensions between the military, which ruled the country for nearly five decades, and the civilian government over allegations of fraud in November's elections.

    78 days ago
  • Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Picture: AFP

    Suu Kyi's party wins absolute majority in Myanmar polls

    Her National League for Democracy (NLD) had already declared a landslide victory based on its own tallies, prompting street celebrations by supporters.

    158 days ago
  • In this undated handout photo released by the German Primate Center (DPZ) on 11 November 2020, the newly discovered primate named Popa langur (Trachypithecus popa) is seen on a tree branch on Mount Popa, Myanmar. Picture: AFP

    Newly discovered primate in Myanmar 'already facing extinction'

    Samples of Popa poop collected by Momberg and his colleagues in the forest matched those from the museum and showed that the previously unknown langur was still roaming the wild.

    160 days ago
  • FILE: Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Picture: United Nations Photo

    Suu Kyi's party confident of landslide victory in Myanmar polls

    Nobel laureate Suu Kyi remains a heroine for many in the Bamar majority heartlands, in spite of a global reputation left in tatters by her handling of the Rohingya crisis and widespread disillusionment in many ethnic minority areas.

    162 days ago
  • George Floyd's death on May 25 became a symbol of systemic racism and abuse. Picture: AFP

    Twitter shuts Iran-based network accused of fanning flames of US race protests

    The network of more than 100 accounts allegedly "artificially amplified" conversations on topics including Floyd's death, Black Lives Matter and social justice issues.

    193 days ago
  • Sperm counts in men from developed world have dropped by more than 50% in less than 40 years, researchers said. Picture: Pixabay.com.

    Scientists find world's oldest sperm in Myanmar amber

    The individual sperms were described as "giants", measuring up to 4.6 times the size of the body of the male.

    216 days ago
  • This photo taken on 11 January 2019 shows a general view of the town of Muse (foreground) and Ruili in China (background), as seen from Myanmar's border town of Muse in Shan state. Picture: AFP.

    China locks down city on Myanmar border over coronavirus

    Seven other cases were reported around China on Tuesday - all brought in from other countries, the National Health Commission said.

    217 days ago
  • FILE: Rohingya candidate Abdul Rasheed, a member of the Democracy and Human Rights Party, poses for a photo in the party's office in Yangon on 12 August 2020. Picture: AFP

    Rohingya politicians excluded from Myanmar election

    His father was a civil servant. But when the country goes to the polls in November, the businessman will not be able to stand as a candidate because officials accuse him of having foreign roots.

    238 days ago
  • Red Cross workers pull on a cable attached to a rescue boat searching for bodies from the site of a landslide by jade mines near Hpakant in Kachin state on July 4, 2020. Picture: AFP.

    More bodies to be buried in mass grave after Myanmar jade mine landslide

    More than 170 people, many of them migrants seeking their fortune in the jade-rich Hpakant area of Kachin state, died on Thursday after mining waste collapsed into a lake, triggering a surge of mud and water.

    290 days ago
  • FILE: After fleeing violence in Myanmar, Rohingya refugees live in overcrowded makeshift sites in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: UNHCR

    Two Rohingya women killed in Myanmar shelling

    Military spokesperson Zaw Min Tun told AFP said that one woman was killed on the spot by "heavy weapons" while another died after arriving at hospital in conflict-torn northern Rakhine state.

    451 days ago
  • FILE: Myanmar police escort Rohingya Muslims back to their camp in Sittwe, Rakhine state, on 30 November 2018. Nearly 100 Rohingya Muslims were forced back to Myanmar's Rakhine state after being detained at sea en route to Malaysia, police said on 28 November, stirring fears of a fresh refugee boat crisis. Picture: AFP

    Top UN court orders Myanmar to prevent Rohingya genocide

    The International Court of Justice rejected arguments made by Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in The Hague in December and set out urgent steps for the majority Buddhist nation to end the violence.

    453 days ago
  • FILE: A handout photo released on 10 December 2019 by the International Court of Justice shows Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi attending the start of a three-day hearing on the Rohingya genocide case before the UN International Court of Justice at the Peace Palace of The Hague. Picture: AFP

    Myanmar's Suu Kyi warns genocide case could reignite Rohingya crisis

    In her closing arguments after a three-day hearing at the International Court of Justice, Myanmar's de facto civilian leader issued a stark warning to judges that allowing The Gambia's case against Myanmar to go ahead could 'undermine reconciliation'.

    495 days ago
  • Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (C) stands before the UN's International Court of Justice on 11 December 2019 next to Abubacarr Tambadou (2L), minister of justice of the Gambia, in the Peace Palace of The Hague, on the second day of her hearing on the Rohingya genocide case. Picture: AFP

    Suu Kyi tell UN's top court charge of Rohingya genocide is 'misleading'

    The Nobel Peace laureate challenged allegations in a lawsuit brought by Gambia last month accusing Myanmar of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention.

    496 days ago
  • FILE: Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Picture: United Nations Photo

    Rohingya call for Myanmar's Suu Kyi to acknowledge atrocities

    The case brought by the tiny west African nation of Gambia is the first international legal attempt to bring Myanmar to justice over the crisis.

    497 days ago
  • FILE: Aung San Suu Kyi departed on Sunday 8 December 2019 for the UN’s top court in The Hague to defend Myanmar against charges of genocide of the Rohingya Muslims . Picture: United Nations Photo

    Myanmar leader Suu Kyi departs for genocide hearings amid fanfare at home

    Suu Kyi was pictured smiling as she walked through the airport in the nation’s capital, Naypyitaw, a day after thousands rallied in the city to support her.

    499 days ago
  • FILE: Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Picture: United Nations Photo

    Thousands in Myanmar rally behind Suu Kyi ahead of Hague court date

    The ICJ lawsuit was brought by Gambia, a tiny, mainly Muslim West African state that alleges Myanmar breached the UN's Genocide Convention with its bloody 2017 crackdown on the Rohingya.

    500 days ago
  • FILE: A baby in a basket is one of 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Picture: @UNICEF/Twitter

    Gambia files Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar at World Court - minister

    In its filing, Gambia asked the court to grant so-called provisional measures to make sure Myanmar immediately 'stops atrocities and genocide against its own Rohingya people'.

    525 days ago
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