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MRTV television announced that Myanmar’s military leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, pardoned 1619 prisoners, 42 of whom were foreign detainees,…

State television reported that 1,619 prisoners, including 42 foreigners, were “pardoned” and released on the occasion of the Buddhist New…

During a recent visit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Secretary of State Antony Blinken called massacres against…

In one drawing, dozens of men sit crammed into a single room, hunched with their knees together, every inch of…

JAKARTA, INDONESIA —  The young woman from Myanmar and her family now live amid the tall grasses of a riverbank…

YANGON, MYANMAR —  Prolonged power blackouts and soaring fuel prices in Myanmar are hitting people in cities hard and increasing…

Bangkok, Thailand —  A British rights group is taking Myanmar’s junta to court over allegations of widespread torture since a…

NAYPYIDAW, MYANMAR —  Myanmar’s junta will “annihilate” coup opponents, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said Sunday as the military staged…

Forced to flee ethnic and religious persecution in their own country, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are welcoming the formal recognition…

The US government under President Joe Biden had long avoided this step, but now it was able to bring itself…