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Three Chinese nationals were killed during weekend attacks by two ethnic armed groups in the border town and trading hub of Muse in one of the deadliest bouts of hostilities to hit Myanmar’s volatile northeastern Shan state in years, a local government official told RFA’s Myanmar service on Tuesday. Soldiers from
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Myanmar authorities on Tuesday shut down a narcotics factory located seven kilometres from the Thai border, seizing 30 million ya ba pills and other drugs. Narcotics suppression police raided the building in Tachilek province, opposite Mae Sai in Chiang Rai, and arrested three men aged 27, 35 and 52 and a
Read More Rathedaung township authorities are investigating the deaths of three villagers whose mutilated bodies were found by a river on Monday in the violence-ridden northern part of Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the office of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi said. The corpses of Iman Nusaw, 54, Nawra King, 18, and Nora Long,
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As many as 10 villagers have been injured by police who fired rubber bullets at them on Friday for blocking a roadway to a controversial Chinese-run copper mine in the town of Letpadaung in Sarlingyi township of northwestern Myanmar’s Sagaing region. Locals routinely block the road in protest against Wanbao Mining
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Myanmar authorities have arrested three suspects in the murder of a local reporter who was badly beaten and left to die on the side of a highway in the town of Monywa in Sagaing region last December, a local police officer said. Soe Moe Tun, the Monywa-based reporter for Myanmar's Eleven
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The Myanmar government said Thursday that photos showing alleged rights violations in Rakhine state’s Maungdaw township are fake, despite reports by the United Nations and rights groups that security forces there have killed unarmed residents, burned down villages, and made arbitrary arrests. The U.N. and rights groups have accused soldiers and
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Officials say a powerful earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 has shaken central Myanmar, Fox News says. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit Wednesday, August 24 afternoon and was centered about 25 kilometers west of Chauk, an area west of the ancient capital of Bagan. It
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An international rights group called on the Myanmar government on Wednesday to immediately relocate a sulfuric acid factory situated close to a village, which continues to operate despite serious concerns about its health and environmental effects. London-based Amnesty International said residents of Kankone village, Salingyi township, in northwestern Myanmar’s Sagaing region,
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