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Myanmar anti-coup protesters defy junta warnings
Feb 09, 2021 (AFP)
Junta chief General Min Aung Hlaing made a televised speech on Monday evening to justify seizing power, while a military statement made clear action would soon ...
Military rule will be different this time: Myanmar coup leader
Feb 08, 2021 (AFP)
Orders covering parts of Yangon, Mandalay and other areas banned people from protesting or gathering in groups of more than five, and imposing an 8:00 pm to 4:0...
Thousands rally again in Myanmar against military coup
Feb 07, 2021 (AFP)
The fresh rally followed the largest protests to date on Saturday, when tens of thousands came out in cities across the country to condemn the coup that brought...
Myanmar's democracy veterans, once again political prisoners
Feb 06, 2021 (AFP)
The military takeover stunned the world and brought a decade-long democratic experiment to a shuddering halt, but for the lifelong democracy activist and other ...
Key aide of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi arrested: party
Feb 05, 2021 (AFP)
The arrest follows that of Suu Kyi and Myanmar president Win Myint who were detained on Monday as the military seized the levers of government, granting army ch...
Socialist, ecologist or banker: who will lead Ecuador?
Feb 05, 2021 (AFP)
One of the three will replace incumbent Lenin Moreno, who came to power with leftist support in 2017 only to turn a right corner and cut aid in a country in dir...
'Driving evil out': Myanmar people kick up din to protest coup
Feb 04, 2021 (AFP)
Suu Kyi and other top civilian leaders were detained in dawn raids on Monday. The lightning coup brought a country on the path to democracy to a shuddering halt...
Voting machine maker sues Fox News, Trump lawyers for $2.7 bn
Feb 04, 2021 (AFP)
The complaint filed in New York State Court names the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox Corp., the Fox News Network and Fox hosts Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeanine ...
Biden demands Myanmar military 'relinquish power'
Feb 04, 2021 (AFP)
Washington has led international condemnation of Monday's putsch, which saw democratic leaders including Aung San Suu Kyi detained and ignited fears that the mi...
Facebook disrupted in Myanmar as UN chief says coup must fail
Feb 04, 2021 (AFP)
The Southeast Asian nation was plunged back into direct military rule on Monday as de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders were detained in ...
Back to 'basket case'? Myanmar economy at risk after coup
Feb 04, 2021 (AFP)
Myanmar's untapped potential was up for grabs in 2011, when generals in charge of a 49-year junta loosened their iron grip, paving the way for democratic reform...
Myanmar's youth weigh defiance against crackdown fears after coup
Feb 04, 2021 (AFP)
Since the dawn army raids that took Aung San Suu Kyi and her government's top ministers into custody on Monday, outrage has simmered behind closed doors over th...
US lawmakers nominate Hong Kong democracy movement for Nobel
Feb 03, 2021 (AFP)
In a letter to the Nobel Committee submitted by the February 1 deadline and released Wednesday, nine lawmakers across party lines cited the estimate that more t...
US leads condemnation as Myanmar's Suu Kyi charged after coup
Feb 03, 2021 (AFP)
The Southeast Asian nation was plunged back into direct military rule when soldiers arrested key civilian leaders in a series of dawn raids Monday, ending the a...
Myanmar coup leaders must protect Rohingya: The Gambia
Feb 03, 2021 (AFP)
"We are gravely concerned that the same military leadership that marginalised the Rohingya has now seized full control of the Myanmar government," the informati...
Twitter blocks accounts over India farm protests on gov't order
Feb 01, 2021 (AFP)
An IT ministry source told AFP the government had directed the social media giant to act against about 250 Twitter accounts and tweets that posed a "grave threa...
Myanmar's military stages coup, detains Aung San Suu Kyi
Feb 01, 2021 (AFP)
The intervention followed weeks of rising tensions between the military, which ruled the country for nearly five decades, and the civilian government over elect...
Myanmar military declares one-year state of emergency
Feb 01, 2021 (AFP)
An announcement read out on military-owned Myawaddy TV said the move was needed to preserve the "stability" of the state, accusing the country's election commis...
Myanmar army plays down coup rhetoric as fears swirl
Jan 30, 2021 (AFP)
The army has for weeks alleged widespread irregularities in November's election, won in a landslide by Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling National League for Democracy (...
Myanmar army chief's rhetoric fuels fears of a coup
Jan 28, 2021 (AFP)
The army has for weeks alleged widespread voter irregularities in November's election, which Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) won i...
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