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    Myanmar’s Suu Kyi handed five-year jail term for corruption

    27 Apr 2022

    The judge in the capital Naypyitaw handed down the verdict within moments of the court convening, said the source, who declined to be identified because the trial is being held behind closed doors, with information restricted.

    Myanmar’s temple city Bagan awarded UNESCO World Heritage status

    06 Jul 2019

    The decision recognises the importance of the central Myanmar site — which includes more than 3,500 stupas, temples, monasteries and other structures built between the 11th and 13th centuries — and will likely be a boon to Myanmar’s tourist industry.

    Dozens killed in Myanmar mudslide

    24 Apr 2019

    Myanmar recovery teams battled treacherous conditions on Wednesday to pull a fourth body from the sludge left by a mudslide that buried more than 50 jade miners — the latest fatal accident in a notoriously dangerous but highly-lucrative industry.

    UN Security Council members fail to agree on Myanmar text

    28 May 2022

    China and the United Kingdom, which drafted the text, blamed each other for the failure of the day-long negotiations, which followed a closed-door Council meeting on Myanmar in the morning.

    Jailed Reuters reporters, US border photographers win Pulitzer Prizes

    16 Apr 2019

    Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, one for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces, and another for photographs of Central American migrants seeking refuge in the United States.

    Myanmar executions could be war crimes: UN

    21 Jun 2022

    The junta said on June 3 it would execute a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent democracy activist, both convicted of terrorism, in what would be the country's first judicial executions since 1990.

    Exceptional resolve

    20 Feb 2020

    The renaissance of Rohingya culture unfolding at the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar is an outstanding example of resolve and verve (“The fuller Rohingya story is much more than the collective

    Myanmar sentences Japanese journalist to prison for 10 years

    06 Oct 2022

    Toru Kubota was sentenced by the court in Yangon's Insein prison on Wednesday, a diplomat at Japan's embassy in Myanmar said, adding that the filmmaker's trial for allegedly violating immigration law was "still continuing".

    Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar freed from prison: Witnesses

    07 May 2019

    Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday

    Myanmar frees journalists after global outrage

    07 May 2019

    Two Reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar walked out of prison on Tuesday, freed in a presidential amnesty after a vigorous global campaign − and backroom diplomacy − for their release. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were mobbed by media as they stepped out of Yangon’s notorious Insein prison after more than 16 months in detention.

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