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14 December 2023
Mizzima Weekly Magazine Issue 50, Vol. 12, December 14, 2023
This handout from Thailand's San Sai District Administrative Office taken on May 9, 2021 and released on June 2, 2021 shows five Myanmar nationals, including three journalists working for the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), during their arrest by Thai authorities at a residence in Chiang Mai. Photo: AFP
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08 June 2021
Myanmar journalists who fled to Thailand in...
Three Myanmar journalists who faced deportation after fleeing to Thailand to escape a...
(FILE) In this file photo taken on February 1, 2016 Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi arrives for the new lower house parliamentary session in Naypyidaw. Photo: AFP
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08 June 2021
Myanmar's Suu Kyi to go on trial next week
Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will go on trial next week, her lawyer said Monday...
Members of the People's Defence Force (PDF) make handmade guns to be used in fighting against security forces near Demoso, Kayah state on June 4, 2021, as the country remains in turmoil after the February military coup. Photo: AFP
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07 June 2021
With homemade rifles, Myanmar self-defence groups...
At makeshift factories hidden in Myanmar's jungle, locals who have formed self-defence...
A Myanmar security official stands next to stacks of seized Heroin to be burned in a incinerator at a ceremony in Yangon. Photo: AFP
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07 June 2021
Heroin seized on Mizoram-Myanmar
Assam Rifles and Custom department have seized 410 grams of heroin at Zokhawthar village...
An overview of a main thoroughfare in Quezon City, east of Manila, Philippines. Photo: EPA
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07 June 2021
Philippines to temporarily stop sending newly...
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) will temporarily stop sending...
Elephants take a bath. Photo: EPA
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07 June 2021
Villagers help four elephants escape mud pit in...
Four wild elephants made their way out of a mud pit in Myanmar where they had been...
Demonstrators shout slogans while riding on motorcycles during a protest against the military coup in Mandalay, Myanmar, 26 May 2021. Photo: EPA
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07 June 2021
China will host a “special meeting” of foreign...
China will host a “special meeting” of foreign ministers to commemorate the 30th...
(FILE) - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks to reporters from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Britain, 19 May 2017. Photo: EPA
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06 June 2021
Julian Assange’s fiancee seeks safe haven for...
Julian Assange's fiancee joined forces Friday with the mayor of Geneva and the UN's...
(FILE) - US President Donald J. Trump participates in a briefing on Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 04 September 2019. Photo: EPA
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06 June 2021
Facebook imposes 2-year Trump ban, revises rules...
Facebook on Friday banned former US president Donald Trump for two years, saying he...
A doctor and health workers cross a wooden bridge during a Covid-19 vaccination drive in a village in Tral, some 35 km south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 05 June 2021. Photo: EPA
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06 June 2021
In rural India, fear of testing and vaccines...
When health worker Neelam Kumari knocks on doors in Indian villages the occupants...
This photo taken on May 10, 2021 and received courtesy of an anonymous source via Facebook on May 19, 2021 shows mourners standing around the coffin of poet Khet Thi during his funeral in Pearl town in Sagaing region. Photo: AFP
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06 June 2021
Myanmar poets square off against junta's war...
Before he was killed, Khet Thi's poems railed eloquently against Myanmar's sudden coup,...
This undated photo taken in May 2021 shows anti-coup activists undergo basic military training at the camp of Karen National Union (KNU), an ethnic rebel group in Karen State after people fled major Myanmar cities due to military crackdown and sought refuge in rebel territories. Photo: AFP
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06 June 2021
Myanmar rebels teach coup protesters to make war
Nervous laughter breaks out in Myanmar's eastern jungle as a young man training to...

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