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Prison department officers arrive to enter Shwe Bo prison after a riot at the prison in Sagaing region on May 9, 2019. Photo: Kaung Zaw Hein/AFP
Prison riot in northern Myanmar leaves four dead
Four prisoners were killed during a riot at a northern Myanmar jail, officials said Thursday, coming on the heels of an amnesty which saw more than 6...
This photo taken on May 6, 2019 shows Eld's deer roaming in the Shwe Settaw nature reserve in Magway region. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
Crowdfunding brings life-saving water to Myanmar's deer
A herd of endangered deer wait under the shade of one of the sparse trees in this parched central Myanmar landscape, watching as rangers dispatch...
Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during the Advisory Forum on National Reconciliation and Peace in Myanmar at Thingaha Hotel in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 07 May 2019. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
Suu Kyi tries to save face with Reuters reporters’ release
After relentless diplomatic pressure and global outrage, fallen democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi finally decided that a pardon for two Myanmar...
Emergency services at the site where a Myanmar National Airlines plane made an emergency landing, at the Mandalay International Airport, Mandalay, Myanmar, 12 May 2019. Photo: EPA
Myanmar plane in emergency touchdown as landing gear fails
A Myanmar pilot saved the day after his aircraft's landing gear failed, safely putting the jet on the runway with no front wheels on Sunday, an...
Rohingya refugee women hold umbrellas during a rain storm at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhia on July 21, 2018. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP
Bangladesh rescues 23 refugee girls from traffickers
Twenty-three teenage Rohingya girls were rescued after being brought from refugee camps to the capital Dhaka to be sent to Malaysia by air,...
General scene of Kuala Lumpur city skyline in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo: Ahmad Yusni/EPA
Two people from Myanmar arrested in IS bomb plot
Malaysian police said Monday they have arrested four militants linked to the Islamic State (IS) group who were in possession of explosives and...
This picture taken on June 1, 2017 shows seized boxes of ingredients, used to produce ecstasy pills by a newly uncovered drug ring, at a police station in Ho Chi Minh City. AFP
Vietnam seizes half tonne of ketamine in crackdown on synthetic drugs
Vietnamese police have seized half a tonne of ketamine worth $21 million in Ho Chi Minh City, a key transit hub that has seen record busts of...
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‘Dead livestock and water running out’ in Myanmar village under army lockdown
Rakhine villagers trapped by a Myanmar army lockdown said Tuesday they are fast running out of water as the operation against the Arakan Army (AA)--...
Rohingya refugees rest in a police station before being returned to the camps in Cox’s Bazar on May 15, 2019, after they were rescued from going on a sea voyage to Malaysia. Bangladeshi police shot dead two suspected Rohingya human traffickers, officials said May 15, after rescuing 103 refugees in two days about to make the perilous sea voyage to Malaysia. Photo: Suzauddin Rubel/AFP
Alleged refugee traffickers shot by Bangladesh police
Bangladeshi police shot dead two suspected Rohingya human traffickers, officials said Wednesday, after rescuing 103 refugees in two days about to...
A Rohingya refugee family are interviewed by a UNHCR registration officer at Kutupalong refugee settlement, Bangladesh. Photo: Will Swanson/UNHCR
Some 250,000 Rohingya refugees receive first ID cards: UN
The UN said Friday it has registered more than 250,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, providing many with their first ever identification cards and...

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