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  • 19 Sep 2017

    President Trump’s speech did not address the Myanmar crisis that’s led more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee their homeland. Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who cancelled her visit to the UN General Assembly, has refused to blame the army for the conflict. But in her first countrywide address on the issue,…

  • 18 Sep 2017

    Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi won’t be at the UN herself – unsurprisingly perhaps after the UN’s human rights chief condemned her country’s treatment of the Rohingya Muslims as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. Instead she will give a televised address tomorrow, with a spokesman claiming she would call for national reconciliation and…

  • 17 Sep 2017

    Conditions for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing into Bangladesh are getting worse by the day: and there’s continued criticism of Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi from her fellow Nobel Prize winners. Her officials say the violence is all down to “extremist Bengalis” in Rakhine state.

  • 8 Sep 2017

    More than a quarter of a million Muslim Rohingya have fled Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh in the last two weeks to escape the cycle of violence gripping their country. Many accuse Buddhist mobs and the Burmese military, which is fighting Rohingya militants who have attacked police posts, of burning their villages and attacking civilians. This…

  • 16 Dec 2016

    There are rapes – there are killings – there are human rights abuses on a daily basis: but says the UN, the persecution of Burma’s minority Rohingya people is being ignored. And it’s accused Aung San Suu Kyi’s government of a “counterproductive, even callous” approach. The scale of the crisis is sharply revealed by satellite…

  • 20 Oct 2015

    Cameron off the naughty step with China

    Pro-Tibet demonstrators were massively out-numbered by a well-planned bussed-in deluge of pro-regime supporters from all over the country.

  • 6 Apr 2015

    Ko Htet and his wife Su Yee Win are lovers in a dangerous time, which happens to be an entirely unexpected feature of their new life as a married couple.

  • 11 Feb 2014

    Dried off and back on solid ground, David Cameron announced he would return from the flood-hit south west to hold a Downing Street press conference. Is the event making a comeback?

  • 18 Dec 2013

    For the first time since 1969, Burma is hosting the South East Asia Games and hopes it can show off its reforms, but the nation still remains reliant on China, writes Aung Zaw Min.

  • 6 Dec 2013

    Across the world, international leaders from the fields of politics, civil rights and religion say words of praise and thanks to mark the passing of Nelson Mandela.

  • 14 Nov 2013

    Sir Paul McCartney has written to Vladimir Putin to calling for the release of a group of Greenpeace activists, arrested after a protest at an oil drilling rig.

  • 22 Apr 2013

    As a human rights group accuses the Burmese authorities of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims, the EU lifts its sanctions against Burma.

  • 29 Mar 2013

    When Burma elected its first democratic president, it was the dawn of a new era. But the country is in a downward spiral of ethnic violence, reports Asia Correspondent John Sparks.

  • 30 Dec 2012

    Burma never enjoyed the economic boom that swept Asia – but that has saved its colonial heritage from being demolished. Now the capital has been moved from Rangoon, neglect and ruin lie in wait.

  • 19 Nov 2012

    Barack Obama becomes the first US president to visit Burma, in a six-hour trip that acknowledged the country’s steps towards democratic change.

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