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It was 10:40 a.m. Moscow time on March 5, 2011. A Russian-made passenger jet broke up in mid-air and crashed on the outskirts of a village in the Belgorod Oblast, a steep and hilly plain on the southeast edge of the Central Russian Upland. [1]
RANGOON — A reshuffle of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) on Tuesday saw younger faces emerge at the top of Burma’s biggest opposition party, although the positions of chairman, vice-chairman and general secretary went to ex-military... [2]
RANGOON — The university studies of 23-year-old Ye Myat Hein were interrupted in 2007 when he was imprisoned in connection with the pro-democracy uprising known as the Saffron Revolution. [3]
RANGOON — Wednesday evening’s dramatic putsch against Shwe Mann loyalists in the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) appears to have been in motion since at least the beginning of the month. [4]
YANGON—Four Arakanese deported by the Singaporean government for allegedly using the city-state as a platform to organize for and fund the ethnic armed rebel group the Arakan Army (AA) in Myanmar arrived back Yangon at 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday night. [5]
The positive changes in Burma have taken many political pundits and observers by surprise. After decades of nothing but grim news, some say that the country is finally undergoing a remarkable transformation. But not everyone is convinced. [6]
Ousted Rakhine State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu was sentenced to two years in prison with labor for sedition on Friday. [7]
Burma’s President Thein Sein on Wednesday appointed two former generals to his cabinet, picking the country’s air force commander to head the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, while a senior army officer will take over the Border... [8]
It was 10:40 a.m. Moscow time on March 5, 2011. A Russian-made passenger jet broke up in mid-air and crashed on the outskirts of a village in the Belgorod Oblast, a steep and hilly plain on the southeast edge of the Central Russian Upland.
RANGOON — A reshuffle of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) on Tuesday saw younger faces emerge at the top of Burma’s biggest opposition party, although the positions of chairman, vice-chairman and general secretary went to ex-military
RANGOON — The university studies of 23-year-old Ye Myat Hein were interrupted in 2007 when he was imprisoned in connection with the pro-democracy uprising known as the Saffron Revolution.
RANGOON — Wednesday evening’s dramatic putsch against Shwe Mann loyalists in the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) appears to have been in motion since at least the beginning of the month.
YANGON—Four Arakanese deported by the Singaporean government for allegedly using the city-state as a platform to organize for and fund the ethnic armed rebel group the Arakan Army (AA) in Myanmar arrived back Yangon at 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday night.
The positive changes in Burma have taken many political pundits and observers by surprise. After decades of nothing but grim news, some say that the country is finally undergoing a remarkable transformation. But not everyone is convinced.
Ousted Rakhine State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu was sentenced to two years in prison with labor for sedition on Friday.
Burma’s President Thein Sein on Wednesday appointed two former generals to his cabinet, picking the country’s air force commander to head the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, while a senior army officer will take over the Border
Myanmar’s ex-generals gathered in solidarity with junta chief Min Aung Hlaing on Sunday at the construction site of a gigantic Buddha statue in Naypyitaw.
Regime forces held as prisoners of war have revealed that three army captains led repeated arson and looting attacks on Chin State’s mountaintop town of Thantlang, according to a local resistance group.