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Based on 10 verified sources covering Myanmar:
China invited two high-profile figures from Myanmar to visit recently, with former President Thein Sein flying to Beijing on June 27 and General Soe Win, deputy chief of the current junta, following him a week later, visiting Qingdao. [2]
It is Myanmar’s good fortune to have been the birthplace of such human treasures as UN Secretary General U Thant and national hero General Aung San, although their public successes have invited misfortunes upon their families. [3]
After pledging to hold elections in December or January, the Myanmar junta has launched yet another initiative to gain some degree of legitimacy—a “peace forum.” According to military mouthpiece The Global New Light of Myanmar, a gathering was held a... [5]
A resident carries belongings over debris next to a damaged building in Naypyidaw on March 28, 2025, after an earthquake in central Myanmar. [6]
To pro-democracy forces he is a brutal dictator who imprisons people who oppose his February 2021 coup, a power-hungry maniac who has not hesitated to send aircraft to bomb areas controlled by the resistance. [8]
China invited two high-profile figures from Myanmar to visit recently, with former President Thein Sein flying to Beijing on June 27 and General Soe Win, deputy chief of the current junta, following him a week later, visiting Qingdao.
It is Myanmar’s good fortune to have been the birthplace of such human treasures as UN Secretary General U Thant and national hero General Aung San, although their public successes have invited misfortunes upon their families.
After pledging to hold elections in December or January, the Myanmar junta has launched yet another initiative to gain some degree of legitimacy—a “peace forum.” According to military mouthpiece The Global New Light of Myanmar, a gathering was held a
A resident carries belongings over debris next to a damaged building in Naypyidaw on March 28, 2025, after an earthquake in central Myanmar.
To pro-democracy forces he is a brutal dictator who imprisons people who oppose his February 2021 coup, a power-hungry maniac who has not hesitated to send aircraft to bomb areas controlled by the resistance.
In politics, so the saying goes, there are no permanent enemies and no permanent friends—only permanent interests.
Myanmar’s military regime has placed former senior military leaders—including ex-dictator Than Shwe and former President Thein Sein—under surveillance, sources close to the matter said.