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Myanmar military leaders must face genocide charges – UN report

Myanmar military leaders must face genocide charges – UN report

Top military commanders in Myanmar should be investigated and prosecuted for the “gravest” crimes against civilians under international law, including genocide, United Nations-appointed investigators said on Monday. The development follows the release of a report into the circumstances surrounding the mass exodus of more than 700,000 Rohingya people from Myanmar, beginning in mid-August last year […]

Rohingya refugees mark a year of suffering and hope

Rohingya refugees mark a year of suffering and hope

With villages in flames in northern Myanmar, Tahara grabbed her four-month old baby and set out under the monsoon downpour in a desperate search for safety in Bangladesh. “We were stuck under the rain,” the Rohingya mother recalls. “We had to hide under a tree in the hills for two nights. All I had was […]

iflix and NBCUniversal team up to offer iflix users a huge slate of everyone’s favourite TV shows and movies

iflix and NBCUniversal team up to offer iflix users a huge slate of everyone’s favourite TV shows and movies

iflix (www.iflix.com), the world’s leading Internet TV service for emerging markets, offering subscribers unlimited access to thousands of TV shows, movies and more, today announced it has entered into major multi-year content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal (NBCU) to add a huge selection of the studio’s most popular and critically acclaimed titles to iflix’s extensive library. […]

Can the Muslim and Buddhist communities of Rakhine State come to an understanding under Aung San Suu Kyi’s rule?

Can the Muslim and Buddhist communities of Rakhine State come to an understanding under Aung San Suu Kyi’s rule?

In December 2016, former secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, visited Myanmar for talks with State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, regarding simmering tensions between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine State, on the western coast of the country.  The international community should help our government to address this issue. Without resolving this, the country […]

Pope Francis strongly criticised atrocities, including mass killings and gang rapes, committed against Rohingya Muslims

Pope Francis strongly criticised atrocities, including mass killings and gang rapes, committed against Rohingya Muslims

Pope Francis strongly criticised atrocities, including mass killings and gang rapes, committed against Rohingya Muslims. Condemning the torture and killings committed by Myanmar’s security forces that – according to a UN report – possible amount to ethnic cleansing, Francis said in a statement on Wednesday that Rohingya Muslims were targeted “simply because they want to […]

Myanmar army has carried out mass killings of Muslim minority, UN rights office says, in possible ethnic cleansing

Myanmar army has carried out mass killings of Muslim minority, UN rights office says, in possible ethnic cleansing

Myanmar’s security forces have committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya Muslims and burned down villages since October in a campaign that likely amounts to crimes against humanity and possibly ethnic cleansing, according to the United Nations. “The ‘area clearance operations’ have likely resulted in hundreds of deaths,” a report from the UN’s human […]

Nokia and Ooredoo launch Myanmar’s first high-speed 4G service and extend managed services contract

Nokia and Ooredoo launch Myanmar’s first high-speed 4G service and extend managed services contract

Nokia and Ooredoo Myanmar have completed the roll-out and launch of the first 4G service in Myanmar, meeting the mobile data demands of residents and visitors with increased speeds and capacity. To ensure seamless network operations, the companies have also extended their existing managed services agreement to incorporate the 4G network. Nokia completed the initial […]

Myanmar votes in first free election in 25 years

Myanmar votes in first free election in 25 years

Polls have opened in Myanmar’s general election – the first openly contested poll in 25 years after decades of military rule. The ruling Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP), backed by the military, is one of the frontrunners. Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) is expected to make big gains, though she is […]

Economics of trafficking, Rohingya slaves sold in Thailand: US$2,300 per head

Economics of trafficking, Rohingya slaves sold in Thailand: US$2,300 per head

After getting beaten up by his Thai captor, Rohingya refugee Abdul Sabur was again whipped by bamboo sticks until his begging cries could be heard. His screams was then transmitted back to his relatives so to speed up the payment of US$1,800 smuggling fee. Shall there be delay or problem in the procedure, he would […]

Asia migrants: Bangkok meeting to debate crisis

Asia migrants: Bangkok meeting to debate crisis

A regional conference is due to get under way in the Thai capital Bangkok to discuss possible solutions to the South-East Asia migrant crisis. The talks will include member states from the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) as well as representatives from the US and the UN. Bangladesh and Myanmar have seen an exodus […]

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