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Cho Htun Aung, 68, a retired brigadier general who also served as an ambassador, was shot dead in Myanmar's commercial capital of Yangon on May 22, in one of the highest profile assassinations in a ...
Burmese warplanes accidentally killed 30 of their own soldiers in a botched air strike in Myanmar. Two fighter jets dropped ...
Myanmar's junta said it has extended a temporary ceasefire to June to support reconstruction and relief efforts following a ...
BEIJING (AP) — Myanmar’s military has reached a cease-fire agreement with an alliance of ethnic minority guerrilla groups it has been battling in the country’s northeast, the Chinese ...
When its helicopter gunships and fighter jets rained fire and bombs on a village celebration last Tuesday, Myanmar’s military junta insisted it was targeting “terrorists.” But among those ...
BEIJING (AP) — Beijing called for a cease-fire in Myanmar after a coalition of ethnic fighters seized several crossings along Myanmar’s border with China in the past month. However ...
While section 15 (a) said the military will allow “students” to “temporarily postpone the military service duty,” section 2 (g) of the law restrictively ... this news only adds gasoline to fire by ...
A unilateral partial ceasefire to facilitate earthquake relief efforts was announced on Saturday by Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government, which coordinates the popular struggle against the ...
Derek Mitchell served as the U.S. ambassador to Myanmar between 2012 and 2016, the first U.S. envoy since 1990. He is now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies ...