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Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) paramilitary personnel carrying assault rifles disembark as they have been deployed on Saint Martin's island, a small island in the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf, on April 7, 2019. Photo: AFP
Bangladesh deploys border guards to island near Myanmar
Bangladesh on Sunday deployed heavily-armed border guards to an island near its southern border with Myanmar for the first time in 20 years,...
Rohingya refugees, who landed on an isolated northern shore near the Malaysia-Thai border, huddle in a group in Kangar on March 1, 2019, following their detention by Malaysian immigration authorities. Photo: Ismael Kamaldin/AFP
Refugees arrive in Malaysia, more believed at sea
Forty-one Rohingya were found in northern Malaysia Monday, police said, the second group of the Muslim minority to arrive in the country within weeks...
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Fresh clashes in Myanmar’s Mrauk-U
Fighting between the Myanmar army and ethnic Rakhine rebels has escalated in the western state's temple-studded town of Mrauk U, sources confirmed...
Reuters' journalists Wa Lone (C, front) and Kyaw Soe Oo (C, back) are escorted by police as they leave the court after their first trial in Yangon, Myanmar, 10 January 2018. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
Jailed Reuters journalists in Myanmar win UN press freedom prize
The United Nations' cultural agency said Wednesday that it had awarded its annual press freedom prize to two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar over...
This photo taken on April 2, 2019 shows Kaung Khant Lin (L) fighting for the ball during a football match in Yangon. Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP
Disabled Myanmar teen football champ defies the odds
Football-obsessed Myanmar teen Kaung Khant Lin roots for Manchester United, worships star Lionel Messi and was honoured as the best player in a...
(FILE) - Reuters journalists Wa Lone (C-front) and Kyaw Soe Oo (C-back) gesture as they arrive at Insein township court, in Yangon, Myanmar, 27 August 2018. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
Reuters reporters not among 9,500 prisoners granted amnesty in Myanmar
Myanmar started releasing more than 9,500 prisoners on Wednesday as part of its annual amnesty marking the country's traditional new year, but...
UWSA soldiers march in formation during a parade held to mark the 30th anniversary of Wa State in Panghsang, also called Pang Kham of autonomous Wa region, north-eastern Myanmar, 17 April 2019. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
‘Masters of our destiny’: Myanmar’s Wa rebels in show of force
It has a standing army of 25,000, manufactures its own guns and conscripts at least one member of each household -- meet the United Wa State Army:...
Major General Tun Myat Naing (C), commander in chief of the Arakan Army who is currently fighting with Myanmar military in Rakhine State, talks to media as he attends the welcome dinner of the 30th anniversary of Wa State in Panghsang, also called Pang Kham of autonomous Wa region, north-eastern Myanmar, 15 April 2019. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
Arakan Army says ‘no peace by prayer’ in battle with Myanmar army
Rakhine rebels locked in a vicious fight with Myanmar's army will not "get peace by praying", its commander said as he vowed his forces will fight on...
US President Donald J. Trump. Photo: EPA
Trump seethes over Mueller report, Democrat demands impeachment
A seething President Donald Trump launched a tirade Friday against the "bullshit" Mueller report on how he tried to thwart the probe into Russian...
Methamphetamine pills. Photo: EPA
Vietnam police seize a tonne of meth stashed in loudspeakers
Police in southern Vietnam have seized more than a tonne of methamphetamine after uncovering a smuggling operation involving at least two Taiwanese...

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