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A firebrand monk who helped stoke sectarian conflict in Myanmar throws his support behind the controversial Dhammakaya sect in Thailand, which is currently at odds with law enforcement over money laundering allegations.
Topics: buddhism, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, thailand, burma, asia
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| UpdatedThe Myanmar military may have killed "thousands" of Rohingya Muslims in a campaign of rape and destruction described as ethnic cleansing by the United Nations.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, religion-and-beliefs, world-politics, refugees, burma
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| UpdatedA Buddhist monk is arrested in Myanmar after a grenade, ammunition and more than four million methamphetamine pills are found by authorities in his car and in his monastery.
Topics: drug-offences, other-religions, burma, asia
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The top United Nations human rights official says Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has promised to investigate UN allegations of atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, law-crime-and-justice, burma, asia
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The office of Myanmar's civilian President says the assassination of a lawyer advising the ruling party on amending a military-drafted constitution was likely an effort to destabilise the country.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, government-and-politics, burma, asia
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A legal adviser for Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy is shot at close range as he walks out of the Yangon airport, an incident Amnesty International says has the hallmarks of a political assassination.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, crime, unrest-conflict-and-war, burma, asia
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The UN's special envoy to Myanmar has met with internally displaced people amid growing concerns about human rights violations.
Topics: refugees, race-relations, burma, asia
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Graphic footage shows Myanmar police officers beating villagers in Rakhine State.
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| UpdatedMyanmar's Government vows to take action against police officers who assaulted villagers in Rakhine State, after a video of the incident circulates on the internet.
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, police, burma
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| UpdatedMore than a dozen Nobel laureates including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Malala Yousafzai urge the UN Security Council to end the "ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity" in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine State.
Topics: race-relations, islam, world-politics, burma
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| UpdatedMyanmar has agreed to grant "necessary humanitarian access" to the troubled Rakhine State, after a rare intervention from South-East Asian countries.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, forms-of-government, unrest-conflict-and-war, burma, asia
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The United Nations is getting daily reports of rapes and killings of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar and independent monitors are being barred from investigating, the UN human rights office says.
Topics: human, relief-and-aid-organisations, intergovernmental-organisations, burma, asia
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Australia's decision to take another step back from international broadcasting by ceasing its far reaching border crossing shortwave radio services has raised questions about who will fill the void.
Topics: radio-broadcasting, broadcasting, rural, rural-media, pacific, solomon-islands, papua-new-guinea, east-timor, burma, asia, china, nt, australia
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| UpdatedExquisitely preserved bones and feathers from a baby dinosaur's tail have been discovered in a piece of 99-million-year-old amber, found by a palaeontologist hunting for fossils in a South-East Asian market.
Topics: science-and-technology, research, palaeontology, dinosaurs, asia, burma, china
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Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan urges Myanmar's army to respect the rights of the Muslim Rohingya minority.
Topics: world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, burma, asia
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| UpdatedTensions have run high in Myanmar's Rahkine State since 2012, but a recent military crackdown has drawn criticism from international human rights advocates.
Topics: rights, human, human-interest, foreign-affairs, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, burma
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| UpdatedMore Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar pour into neighbouring Bangladesh to flee escalating violence that has killed at least 86 and displaced about 30,000 people.
Topics: refugees, unrest-conflict-and-war, burma, asia
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Reuters' Myanmar bureau chief Antoni Slodkowski discusses recent reports that hundreds more Rohingya Muslims have been fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh and China.
Topics: refugees, world-politics, burma, asia
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NGOs are calling for access to Myanmar's Rakhine State amid reports that more than 100 members of the ethnic minority Rohingya community have been killed by government troops.
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Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi is facing mounting criticism for her government's handling of a crisis in Muslim-majority northern Rakhine State.
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| UpdatedMyanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces mounting criticism for her government's handling of a crisis in Muslim-majority northern Rakhine State, where soldiers have blocked access for aid workers and are accused of raping and killing civilians.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, burma, asia
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Burmese activist and writer Ma Thida discusses why leader Aung San Suu Kyi has not spoken out against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims more strongly.
Topics: government-and-politics, burma, asia
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Insurgents have killed at least 17 people including nine police officers, in a series of attacks on guard posts along Myanmar's border with Bangladesh, officials say.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, burma, bangladesh
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The United States details plans to lift economic sanctions against Myanmar as Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi meet, despite reservations by politicians and rights groups.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, burma, asia