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Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung (R) reacts after a vote in the United Nations General Assembly on the election of five non-permanent members of the Security Council at the United Nations headquarters in New York, USA, 07 June 2019. Vietnam is among the five countries elected to the United Nations Security Council. Photo: Jason Szenes/EPA-EFE
Vietnam joins UN Security Council
Vietnam, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estonia, Niger, and Tunisia were elected to the UN Security Council on Friday as the top UN body struggles...
This photo taken on April 9, 2019 shows director Arkar Win (C) explaining a scene to an actor during filming for his movie on the outskirts of Yangon. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
New Myanmar filmmakers shoot to rekindle golden years
A deadly race to find hidden treasure, car chases and slick fight scenes drive the breakneck narrative of one of Myanmar's latest blockbusters, as a...
A general view of a Rohingya refugees' makeshift camp in Kutubpalang, Cox Bazar district, Bangladesh. Photo: Monirul Alam/EPA
International aid agencies don’t want refugees to go back - Hasina
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has slammed Myanmar and international aid agencies for delays in the repatriation of Rohingya refugees who...
This photo taken May 23, 2019 shows Thai navy personnel patrolling along the Mekong river bordering Thailand and Laos in Tha Utain, Nakhon Phanom province. Photo: Aidan Jones/AFP
Drones, big money and cheap drugs: the Laos route spewing meth into Thailand
As dusk falls along the Mekong River, a nightly dance begins between Thai border security and Laos drug gangs now using drones, scouts and a pool of...
This handout picture taken on June 11, 2019 and released by Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) on June 12 shows a group of Rohingya Muslims sitting on the sand at the Tarutao Marine National Park on Rawi island, southern Thailand. Photo: Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP)/AFP
65 refugees found shipwrecked in Thailand
A group of 65 Rohingya Muslims have been found on a shipwrecked boat off the coast of southern Thailand, Navy officials said Wednesday as authorities...
This handout picture taken on June 11, 2019 and released by Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) on June 12 shows a boat, which was carrying a group of Rohingya Muslims, at the Tarutao Marine National Park on Rawi island, southern Thailand. Photo: Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP)/AFP
Thai captain of shipwrecked refugee boat charged with smuggling
A Thai boat captain has been charged with smuggling 65 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, police said Thursday, after their vessel was shipwrecked off...
Parents and relatives hold pictures of girls missing since they were abducted by Boko Haram on April 14, 2014 in Chibok, northern Nigeria (AFP Photo/Audu Ali MARTE)
Conflicts spur alarming increase in missing persons: Red Cross
The UN Security Council have adopted the first-ever resolution on missing persons in conflict as the International Red Cross reported an alarming...
Myanmar doctor Nang Mwe San. Photo: Facebook/Nang Mwe San Page
Myanmar doctor-turned-model hits back at ban over revealing photos
A Myanmar doctor and model who had her medical licence revoked for posting lingerie photos of herself blasted the government for "interfering" with...
The annual meeting of the ultra-nationalist Buddha Dhamma Parahita Foundation in Yangon on June 17, 2019. Photo: Thura/Mizzima
Myanmar’s hard-line monks rail against Suu Kyi
Ultra-nationalist monks in Myanmar accepted a cash donation from the military on Monday while condemning Aung San Suu Kyi and her government for...
(File) Rohingya Muslims collect water from a well near their barracks at the Bawdupah IDP camp on the outskirts of Sittwe in Myanmar's Rakhine state. Photo: AFP
UN gives Myanmar aid cut warning over Rakhine IDP camp closures
The UN has warned it will pare back aid to thousands of Rohingya Muslims left destitute as Myanmar's government closes camps in Rakhine state, over...

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