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The release of Aung San Suu Kyi and around 20,000 fellow political prisoners will be the most crucial step towards ending the conflict in Myanmar, the country’s government-in-exile has said. The ...
An online news editor, one of my colleagues who had in years past worked as a fixer for foreign reporters, was sentenced to seven years’ jail for the crime of having a photo of Aung San Suu Kyi ...
Israel Defense Forces operating in the Syrian side of the 1974 buffer zone, in Quneitra Governorate, advance into the Syrian town of Madinat al-Baath. (The Times of Israel) Trinidad and Tobago declares a state of emergency as gang violence escalates in the country, due to five people shot dead at a shop in Laventille, Port of Spain the previous ...
Myanmar was one of the first countries in Asia to recognize Israel's independence and establish diplomatic ties with the state. Today, the countries cooperate in the fields of agriculture, health and education. [1] Israel has an embassy in Yangon, and Myanmar has an embassy in Tel Aviv. Myanmar does not recognize the State of Palestine.
Ms Suu Kyi, who studied at Oxford, married British lecturer Michael Aris and raised her young family in the UK before going back to Myanmar in 1988, has been held since the military seized power ...
[3] [1] Over the years, its membership has expanded to include news agencies operating near Myanmar's border with Thailand. [ 4 ] In 2008, in the lead-up to the 2008 Myanmar constitutional referendum , BNI launched a pioneering nationwide survey assessing the Burmese public's sentiment toward the military-drafted 2008 Constitution of Myanmar in ...
GENEVA (Reuters) -Myanmar's military government has ramped up killings and arrests in an apparent bid to silence opponents and recruit soldiers in an escalating conflict, with tens of thousands ...
It also represented Israel in Laos from 1956 to 1964, Cambodia from 1959 [4] to 1966, [5] Ceylon starting in 1957, and in the Maldives at some point. Despite the transfer of the capital of Myanmar from Yangon to Nay Pyi Taw in 2005, most of the diplomatic missions in Myanmar have not moved there, and the embassy is still located in Yangon.