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Twenty homes caught fire and a bomb was detonated near a mosque in Myanmar's Rakhine state, the government said Friday, the latest unrest in a region that has seen hundreds of thousands of Rohinyga Muslims flee in under a month. (ndtv.com)
Myanmar's government admits that scores of villages have been burned down over the past month. (ndtv.com)
The government has blocked independent media access to the conflict zone in northern Rakhine, making it difficult to verify the swirl of claims and counterclaims that has amplified Myanmar's already bitter ethnic divides. (ndtv.com)
With the National League for Democracy's (NLD) landslide victory in the general elections in November, China expects a new page in Myanmar's domestic politics and foreign policy under the new government to be inaugurated at the end of March 2016. (atimes.com)
This policy was cost free because the NLD and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi had little influence over Myanmar's domestic and foreign policy decision process under the military government and China could pursue its political and economic agendas by working with the government alone. (atimes.com)
With rapid development already occurring, it is important to address air pollution in Myanmar for the health and safety of Myanmar's people. (unicef.org)
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's military junta dismissed a U.N. statement Friday calling for dialogue with the pro-democracy opposition, insisting that it would follow its own roadmap toward reform - a plan critics say is a ruse aimed at extending the government's grip on power. (nownews.com)
Myanmar's government has continued to be swayed by military influence. (latimes.com)
Thus far the response of the current government has been reasonably even-handed, which reflects a realization on its part that the country needs stability in advance of the upcoming 2015 presidential election, an event outsiders are closely watching as a means to gauge Myanmar's political stability and whether new foreign direct investment makes sense. (forbes.com)
Myanmar's government spokesman was not available for comment on Wednesday morning. (news24.com)
Bangkok, June 10 (DPA) A coalition of Myanmar's ethnic groups Wednesday called on the United Nations Security Council to investigate attacks on ethnic Karen villages in eastern Myanmar that have forced more than 3,000 refugees into Thailand. (thaindian.com)
The forum, based on the Thai-Myanmar border, comprises representatives from six ethnic minority groups, including the Karen, whose traditional homeland was the Karen State, who are opposed to Myanmar's military regime. (thaindian.com)
Over the past 15 years Myanmar's junta has destroyed more than 3,300 villages in eastern Myanmar, most of which were under the control of the Karen National Union (KNU), an insurgency that has been fighting for the autonomy of the Karen State for six decades. (thaindian.com)
Myanmar's government has accused several other ethnic groups of supporting the Kokang rebels in combat, and has claimed that former Chinese soldiers have provided training. (voanews.com)
China's government has disavowed any links with the militants, saying it respects Myanmar's sovereignty and will not allow any group to use Chinese territory to destabilize a neighboring country. (voanews.com)
Since 2006, Myanmar's government has established a special dolphin protective zone stretching about 50 miles north of Mandalay. (nytimes.com)
Around 70 per cent of Myanmar's population lives in rural areas where health care penetration is low ( Source: UNDP Myanmar ). (austrade.gov.au)
The 16 Rohingya - 12 men, two women and two young girls - had traveled to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar, the district bordering Myanmar where refugee camps are overflowing with more than 620,000 Rohingya who have fled what the U.N. says is a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Myanmar's military. (nbcdfw.com)
Myanmar's government and most of the Buddhist majority recoil from the term "Rohingya," saying the members of the Muslim minority are "Bengalis" who migrated illegally from Bangladesh. (nbcdfw.com)
President Bush joined a chorus of international leaders urging Myanmar's reclusive military government to allow the flow of aid. (cnn.com)
The U.S. pledged $3.25 million and has promised to send Navy ships in the region to help if Myanmar's government requests it. (cnn.com)
Myanmar's government regards Rohingya as illegal migrants from Bangladesh. (mid-day.com)
Nowadays, China, Vietnam and Myanmar's state governments are making efforts for protecting snub-nosed monkeys. (eurekalert.org)
Ko Ko Naing, director general of Myanmar's Relief and Resettlement Department in the Ministry of Social Welfare, told Reuters by telephone that Myanmar had signed the agreement with Bangladesh and was aiming to start the repatriation process by Jan. 23. (com.sa)
Myint Kyaing, permanent secretary at Myanmar's Ministry of Labor, Immigration and Population, told Reuters this month Myanmar would begin processing at least 150 people a day through each of the two camps by Jan. 23. (com.sa)

Human Rights Watch and Fortify Rights welcome the opportunity to provide joint input into the November 2017 request by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) for an exceptional report from the Myanmar government on the situation of women and girls from northern Rakhine State. (hrw.org)
This submission outlines the findings of our organizations through several separate on-the-ground investigations in 2016, 2017, and 2018 that documented widespread human rights violations committed against ethnic Rohingya women and girls by Myanmar security forces. (hrw.org)
In November 2017, Pramila Patten, the United Nations special representative on sexual violence in conflict, said the Myanmar army's widespread use of sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls was "a calculated tool of terror aimed at the extermination and removal of the Rohingya as a group," adding that she documented the basis for characterizing the crimes as genocide. (hrw.org)
In December 2016 and March 2017, Fortify Rights spoke to eight Rohingya women who were raped and gang raped by Myanmar army soldiers in October and November 2016 in seven villages in Maungdaw township. (hrw.org)
Fortify Rights also documented rape and sexual violence in August and September 2017 in all three townships of northern Rakhine State, including through interviews with nine witnesses to rapes, gang rapes, and post-rape body mutilation by Myanmar army soldiers. (hrw.org)
Confiscated drugs are burnt during a ceremony by Myanmar police to commemorate World Anti-Drugs Day on the outskirts of Yangon on June 26, 2017. (einnews.com)
For the first time the government will have access to over 757 billion Kyats (approximately US$550 million) to transform the outdated medical sector ( Source: Myanmar Insider, March 2017 ). (austrade.gov.au)
Pope Francis meets Rohingya Muslims refugees from Myanmar during an interfaith and ecumenical meeting for peace in the garden of the archbishop's residence, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (nbcdfw.com)
This chapter is from the Myanmar 2017 report. (oxfordbusinessgroup.com)
Over 900,000 Rohingya are in Bangladesh alone, including 759,000 who fled a campaign of violence by the Myanmar military in Rakhine State that began in August 2017. (msf.org.au)
ASEAN has been one of the few actors able to engage the Myanmar government since 2017. (msf.org.au)
Smoke from burning Rohingya homes rises into the air from Myanmar, as seen from Bangladesh on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. (theglobeandmail.com)

Yangon Region Government Mandalay Region Government Magway Region Government Sagaing Region Government Bago Region Government Ayeyarwady Region Government Taninthayi Region Government Kachin State Government Kayah State Government Kayin State Government Chin State Government Mon State Government Rakhine State Government Shan State Government The heads of the governments are chief ministers. (wikipedia.org)
Cover: A Buddhist monk wearing face mask to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus, walks to collect morning alms from devotees in Yangon, Myanmar Monday, May 18, 2020. (vice.com)
YANGON, (PNA/Xinhua) - Myanmar government's Central Peace Making Work Committee and representatives of 15 rebel ethnic armed groups out of 17 began their first ever peace talks on Monday in six decades in Myitgyina, capital of northernmost Kachin state, local sources said. (philippinestoday.net)
YANGON: Myanmar troops seized $7 million worth of narcotics, precursors and equipment in a raid on drug labs in the restive north, the army said Monday, as it continues a war against ethnic rebels accused of profiting from the drug trade. (einnews.com)
After first attending a series of summit meetings in this gleaming capital city, built in just 10 years to house the new Myanmar government, the president traveled Thursday to a more storied city: Yangon, symbolic home of the opposition party, whose leaders are growing impatient with Obama's embrace of the sitting government. (latimes.com)
She joins us via Skype from Yangon, Myanmar. (npr.org)
Many people lined up in Buddhist temples, schools and government buildings early in the morning to vote, well before a heavy downpour beat down in Yangon an hour before voting ended peacefully in the late afternoon with no reports of major irregularities or violence. (csmonitor.com)
Myanmar factory workers hold placards which read 'To get at least 4,000 kyat a day,' as they stage a rally in Hlaingtharyar township, in suburb of Yangon, July 12, 2015. (voanews.com)
The workers marched outside an industrial zone in the country's largest city of Yangon and called for a daily minimum wage of $3.54 per day, well above the $3.18 rate proposed last month by the National Minimum Wage Committee, after negotiations between the government, employers and employees. (voanews.com)
The government temporarily imposed a ban on rice export to keep prices down, and Myanmar Economic Holding Corporation, a military-controlled conglomerate, has been seen selling subsidized rice and cooking oil in poorer sections of residential areas in Yangon. (jhu.edu)
Myanmar has 1132 public hospitals, ranging from 2000 bed major hospitals in Yangon and Naypyidaw to fewer than 20 beds in rural health clinics. (austrade.gov.au)
YANGON, Myanmar - A call for a Monday general strike by demonstrators in Myanmar protesting the military's seizure of power has been met by the ruling junta with a thinly veiled threat to use lethal force, raising the possibility of major clashes. (yahoo.com)
The twelve people from Myanmar included people from Yangon University, ministry and fishery research, hydrographic department, and methodology and hydrology. (mizzima.com)
Explore the ancient mysteries of Myanmar on this tour from Yangon. (intrepidtravel.com)

What Languages Are Spoken In Myanmar (Burma)? (worldatlas.com)
Donor Information Pack Contains Current Detailed Information About International Aid and United Nations Agencies That Have Launched Appeals For The Myanmar (Burma) Nargis Cyclone Humanitarian Crisis. (prweb.com)
As further information emerges about the extent of the humanitarian disaster in Myanmar (Burma), inflicted by Tropical Cyclone Nargis, the United Nations, international aid agencies and governments stepped up their calls to the Myanmar government to allow immediate access to the region. (prweb.com)
The youngest daughter of Aung San , Father of the Nation of modern-day Myanmar, and Khin Kyi , Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Rangoon , British Burma . (wikipedia.org)
The government of Myanmar (also known as Burma) has denied these accusations. (brookings.edu)
She did say that Burma is not a country that's been soft on human rights, that the government is committed to the defense of human rights and not of any particular community's rights but of all human beings. (npr.org)
Myanmar , or Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar is a country in Southeast Asia . (wikitravel.org)
1) People often think Myanmar, formerly Burma, is now a full democracy. (csmonitor.com)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Twitter the U.S. would take firm action 'against those who perpetrate violence against the people of Burma as they demand the restoration of their democratically elected government. (yahoo.com)
R. strykeri was recently found in northern Burma(Myanmar) and has now also been confirmed in Nujiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. (eurekalert.org)
Travel to Myanmar (Burma) and discover mythical landscapes and amazing hospitality. (intrepidtravel.com)
Our Myanmar (Burma) trips score an average of 4.85 out of 5 based on 874 reviews in the last year. (intrepidtravel.com)

2016 . "Armed Forces and Democratization in Myanmar: Why the US Military Should Engage the Tatmadaw. (cambridge.org)
The current exodus, like the previous one in October 2016 that led 87,000 to flee , is being driven by a brutal government crackdown following attacks by armed Rohingya. (brookings.edu)
The government has carried out mass firings of academics without due process, using dubious allegations of links to terrorism or the July 2016 coup plot. (hrw.org)
IOM estimates there could be as many as 3 million Myanmar migrants living in Thailand as at 2016. (iom.int)
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi greets Pa'O ethnic delegates during a peace conference dinner reception at the convention center in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on 31 August 2016. (crisisgroup.org)
Total pharmaceutical expenditure is expected to grow 19 per cent per annum in the next three years, from US$ 600 million in 2016 to more than US$ 1 billion by the end of 2018 ( Source: Zuellig Pharma, Myanmar ). (austrade.gov.au)
National League for Democracy (NLD) party leader Aung San Suu Kyi smiles as she arrives to attend Union Parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, January 28, 2016. (csmonitor.com)
Problems began when the government consolidated several payroll systems into one in February 2016. (rcinet.ca)
Financial Reforms in Myanmar and Japan's Engagement ," Working Papers DP-2016-27, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). (repec.org)

Cox's Bazar (25 February 2018) - Six months after more than 688,000 refugees from Myanmar fled from mass violence to neighboring Bangladesh, providing continued support for medical treatment, sanitation, and shelter remain the most pressing needs. (einnews.com)
Although Myanmar has refused to allow international fact-finding missions into the country, groups including the UN, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International, which interviewed Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, have documented atrocities committed by security forces. (brookings.edu)
Proposal comes a week after collapse of second attempt to return thousands of refugees to Myanmar. (rfa.org)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday about Rohingya Muslims flooding into her country from Myanmar, but she expects no help from him as he has made clear how he feels about refugees. (reuters.com)
I said 'it's doing very well, but the only problem that we have is the refugees from Myanmar'," Hasina told Reuters in an interview. (reuters.com)
Since June 6, some 3,295 Karen refugees have fled from Ler Per Her camp in eastern Myanmar to Thailand, escaping attacks on the camp by the Myanmar military and their allies the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), according to border sources. (thaindian.com)
The are currently about 150,000 refugees from Myanmar living in various camps in Thailand. (thaindian.com)
Although the governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar say they will proceed with a voluntary repatriation scheme in the coming weeks, there is little enthusiasm among Rohingya refugees for returning to the site of what Western governments have labeled ethnic cleansing . (nytimes.com)
Rohingya refugees, who fled to Bangladesh after the Myanmar military's violent campaign against the Muslim minority group last year, are being asked to return to Myanmar, but some refugees are reluctant to leave. (waaytv.com)
Rohingya refugees who fled a brutal army crackdown last year say they are terrified of going back to Myanmar, as authorities begin the process of repatriating thousands of people living in crowded refugee camps near the Bangladeshi border. (waaytv.com)
Bangladesh and Myanmar were set to start the repatriation of 2,260 Rohingya refugees to Rakhine State on Thursday, however by late afternoon no Rohingya families had volunteered to return, according to Bangladeshi authorities. (waaytv.com)
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), which is not facilitating returns but has assessed the willingness of those chosen to go back, said the conditions in Myanmar are not conducive for refugees to be repatriated. (waaytv.com)
As word spread that some refugees were on a list of more than 2,000 approved by Myanmar to return, several families went into hiding, fearing they would be forced back. (waaytv.com)
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday that "we are witnessing terror and panic" among the refugees "who are at imminent risk of being returned to Myanmar against their will," and she called on the Bangladesh government to halt repatriations. (waaytv.com)
Pope Francis asked for forgiveness Friday from refugees in Bangladesh for all the hurt and persecution they have endured, demanded their rights be recognized and pronounced the word he had so assiduously avoided only days earlier in Myanmar: "Rohingya. (nbcdfw.com)
DHAKA: Rohingya refugees are still arriving in Bangladesh as violence forces them to leave Myanmar, according to a report released over the weekend. (arabnews.com)
This week, Rohingya refugees were still arriving in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - the New Year bringing no end to the reports of violence and fears, which forced them to flee their homes in Myanmar," said the report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). (arabnews.com)
Rohingya refugees from the Arakan state of Myanmar continue to enter Bangladesh while authorities of both countries discuss the process of refugee repatriation starting this month. (arabnews.com)
The refugees narrated the ongoing atrocities by the Myanmar army in Rakhine. (arabnews.com)
STRIFE between Uighurs and Han Chinese, refugees pouring in from Myanmar, and heightening tensions with India are examples of problems that face China on its edges. (toledoblade.com)
Since June, he has worked in the primary health center (PHC) in the Nayapara refugee camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, where tens of thousands of ethnic Rohingya refugees have settled after fleeing targeted violence and persecution in Myanmar. (doctorswithoutborders.org)
Bangladeshi authorities on Sunday took steps to restrict the movement of Muslim Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar into crowded border camps and started immunising tens of thousands of children against diseases. (france24.com)
Eric P. Schwartz, head of the US -based charity Refugees International and a former assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration, said he couldn't recall seeing so much misery in the camps and called for international pressure on Myanmar to stop the violence. (france24.com)
Left out of the talks between Myanmar and Bangladesh were the fears and concerns of the refugees themselves, 'as if they are an inert mass of people who will go where and when they are told,' Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, told Reuters in an email. (com.sa)

With armed conflict between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army in Rakhine State amid a pandemic, it's critical for civilians to get the information needed to stay safe. (vice.com)
And a conflict in Rakhine state between the Buddhist majority and a Muslim minority, known as the Rohingya, has resulted in thousands of Muslims being killed or sent to detainment camps, under the eye of a government rife with prejudice. (latimes.com)
A Myanmar military response to insurgent attacks last month in the country's Rakhine state sent more than 410,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh, escaping what the United Nations has branded as ethnic cleansing. (reuters.com)
After a wave of targeted violence against the Rohingya, more than 620,000 people fled to Bangladesh from Rakhine State in Myanmar since 25 August. (msf.ie)
The Myanmar authorities' restrictions on international aid in Rakhine state is putting tens of thousands of lives at risk in a region where mainly Rohingya people are already suffering horrific abuses from a disproportionate military campaign. (scoop.co.nz)
Still, she and her younger brother, Khairul Amin, made it to safety in southeastern Bangladesh, where refugee camps now house far more Rohingya than remain in their homeland in Rakhine State in Myanmar. (nytimes.com)
The stateless Rohingya have long been a persecuted minority in Myanmar that have been kept in apartheid-like conditions across Rakhine State, where they are subjected to restrictions on movement, medical care and even births . (waaytv.com)
There is an acute crisis of food," said Farida Begum, 29, who lived in the Buthidhang area under Rakhine state of Myanmar. (arabnews.com)
Johura Begum lost 14 of her 16 family members when members of the Myanmar military attacked her village in Rakhine state. (doctorswithoutborders.org)

In March 2018, UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee said the crimes against Rohingya in Myanmar "bear the hallmarks of genocide. (hrw.org)
In 2018 I was in Myanmar for a workshop, and at that time there was a big opening, and an invitation by the Myanmar government to call people and scientists from all over the world to participate in exploring the northern Andaman Sea and the coast of Myanmar. (mizzima.com)

People protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi against the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. (hindustantimes.com)
The move comes against the backdrop of a large number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar and seeking refuge following a crackdown by the military in the Rakhine province. (hindustantimes.com)
The United Nations has called on Southeast Asian nations not to push back the boatloads of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar and Bangladeshis - men, women and children who fled persecution and poverty at home, and now face sickness and starvation at sea. (reuters.com)
More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar since late August from mass persecution by the country's military, according to aide groups. (nbcdfw.com)
DHAKA/COX'S BAZAAR - Bangladesh said on Tuesday it would complete the process of returning within two years many of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who had fled a conflict in Myanmar, following a meeting of the neighbors. (com.sa)

The government temporarily lifted restrictions in five townships from September 2019 until February 2020 when they were reinstated - just as the coronavirus outbreak was beginning to spread around the world. (vice.com)
He told the 4th Emerging Asia Banking and FinTech Summit 2019 on Tuesday that Myanmar had fully drawn up the road map, which would be officially launched once approved by the cabinet. (consult-myanmar.com)

During the twenty years of military rule in Myanmar, Beijing minimized contact with Suu Kyi and the NLD out of consideration for the military government's sensitivity. (atimes.com)
The shutdown calls into question the Myanmar government's commitment to preventing the spread of the virus, particularly in ethnic minority areas. (vice.com)
The International Aid Effort is Still Being Hampered by the Myanmar Government's Refusal to Grant Visas. (prweb.com)
They hide behind the arcane and ultimately destructive policy of non-interference, repeating the demonstrably false claim that the Myanmar government's persecution of Rohingya is an 'internal affair'," he wrote in the Jakarta Post on Sunday. (reuters.com)
Third, for multinational healthcare companies, the Myanmar government's expanded funding for healthcare over the last twelve months is an important signal for further investment. (forbes.com)
In fact, it expelled Charles Petrie, the head of the United Nations Development Programme in Myanmar and the UN's resident coordinator, for releasing a UN Country Team's statement on 24 October, which deplored the government's lack of attention to the growing humanitarian crisis. (jhu.edu)
China is otherwise the Myanmar government's best friend and greatest protector. (toledoblade.com)

Repatriation is not recommended as a durable solution unless Myanmar becomes a safe place for return. (springer.com)
Despite the ongoing atrocities in Rakhine, Bangladesh and Myanmar are now working on Rohingya refugee repatriation. (arabnews.com)
The bilateral repatriation plan, which Myanmar said would begin next Tuesday, was greeted with some skepticism from NGOs, who said it did not adequately address questions of safety, livelihoods and permanent resettlement. (com.sa)
A Myanmar agency set up to oversee repatriation said last week two temporary 'repatriation and assessment camps' and one other site had been set up to accommodate returnees. (com.sa)

What's in Store for Myanmar in 2020 and Beyond? (irrawaddy.com)

Jovi Seet, who manages PriceWaterhouseCooper's efforts in Myanmar , noted that foreign direct investments into Myanmar are thus far being directed at many of the country's longest standing problem areas: "If you think about where the country most needs development - physical infrastructure, power, connectivity - there has been improvement in allowing FDI in these areas. (forbes.com)
Neither the government nor any of the international groups or actors, however, has managed to come up with concrete, workable, or sustainable plans to solve the economic crisis in ways that could or would address the needs of the country's various impoverished communities. (jhu.edu)
While the recent political reforms in Myanmar hold promise for the country's future, its long-neglected healthcare system faces a number of challenges before it can deliver effective and affordable care to the people. (bangkokpost.com)
Although the government increased spending on healthcare in 2013, the rise brought healthcare spending to 3.9% of the country's total budget. (bangkokpost.com)
Come and see why, even when the country's reputation might have chilled, Myanmar still has the ability to stir. (intrepidtravel.com)

In the 1980s and 90s, many fled the civil war in Myanmar and sought refuge in Thailand, where they integrated with the local Thai people and are still living in the country. (worldatlas.com)
Although some have assimilated into the local Thai population, a majority continue to live in abject poverty in refugee camps along the border of Thailand and Myanmar. (worldatlas.com)
KUALA LUMPUR/KOH LIPE, Thailand (Reuters) - Malaysia prodded Myanmar on Sunday to halt the exodus from its shores as concern grew for uncounted migrants adrift in rickety boats around the Andaman Sea. (reuters.com)
Migration within Myanmar and across its long borders, which cover Thailand, Laos, China, India and Bangladesh, is subject to a range of drivers which are complex and are critical in affecting how and why people decide to move. (iom.int)
and investors from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia have set up a number of joint ventures in Myanmar. (austrade.gov.au)
The agency said it was 'emptying' stockpiles of tents and plastic sheeting in neighboring Thailand for urgent dispatch to Myanmar. (cnn.com)
Japanese companies have invested in Myanmar through other countries, especially neighbouring countries, like Thailand and Singapore. (nationmultimedia.com)
So it is very important for Myanmar to increase the quality of products and, at the same time, to increase production for exports, as you need to compete with other Asean countries such as Thailand and Vietnam. (nationmultimedia.com)
Up to 40% OFF Sailing trips to Cuba, Bahamas, Thailand and Myanmar. (intrepidtravel.com)

Since Myanmar is a member country of the United Nations and as the government has declared it would work with the U.N., we earnestly underscore the need to urgently implement the demands made by the Security Council," the NLD said. (nownews.com)
The United Nations said last week that the deadly pattern of migration across the Bay of Bengal would continue unless Myanmar ended discrimination. (reuters.com)
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley urged the Myanmar government to end military operations, grant humanitarian access, and commit to aiding the safe return of civilians to their homes. (reuters.com)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United Nations and the Red Cross began distributing relief supplies Tuesday to people affected by the devastating cyclone that killed at least 22,000 people in Myanmar on Friday. (cnn.com)
Rights activists and the United Nations say the Myanmar government needs to end all political detentions. (dailymirror.lk)

The government of Aung San Suu Kyi ordered telecoms companies to block mobile internet coverage in nine townships across the two states on June 20 last year, as clashes between the Myanmar military and troops from the ethnic Arakan Army escalated. (vice.com)
Clashes between the Kokang rebels and government troops in Myanmar since February have left hundreds dead and forced thousands more people to flee. (voanews.com)
The clashes have come as the nominally civilian government is making efforts to sign a nationwide cease-fire with more than a dozen rebel groups that have been fighting for self-rule for decades. (voanews.com)

The Muslim minority is denied citizenship by the state and has been the target of festering Islamaophobia in mainly Buddhist Myanmar for years. (ndtv.com)
A clampdown by Thailand's military junta has made a well-trodden trafficking route into Malaysia - one of Southeast Asia's wealthiest economies - too risky for criminals who prey on Rohingya fleeing oppression in Buddhist-majority Myanmar and on Bangladeshis looking for better livelihoods abroad. (reuters.com)
The campaign has included the burning of Rohingya villages and fleeing Rohingya have described rape and shootings by Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist mobs that left them no option but to make the dangerous and sometimes deadly journey through jungles and by sea to Bangladesh. (nbcdfw.com)
Citing the three important players - the government, army and the Buddhist community of Myanmar - he says the "political government of the country needs to take the initiative and create a friendly environment so that the Rohingyas feel confident going back to their place," he said. (arabnews.com)

The government of Myanmar holds landmark peace talks with armed ethnic groups as part of efforts to bring an end to decades of conflict. (com.ng)
The official insisted that Myanmar does not allow shadow banking to prevent conflict of interest between banks and mobile financial services. (consult-myanmar.com)
LINCANG, China-When warplanes involved in fighting over northern Myanmar streaked across the border into China, an errant bomb killed Chinese farmers and put Beijing in a bind over a conflict it has tried to avoid. (wsj.com)
The new central government of the nation quickly worked to consolidate its power, marginalizing and angering tribal leaders and setting off more than a decade of armed conflict. (wikitravel.org)
The ominous signs of potential conflict drew attention outside Myanmar, with the U.S. reiterating that it stood with the people of Myanmar. (yahoo.com)

Malaysia, which says it has already taken in 120,000 illegal migrants from Myanmar, has made it clear that it wants no more and its deputy prime minister said on Sunday that Myanmar must now take responsibility. (reuters.com)
However, there has been no sign yet of a coordinated response from regional governments over what to do with some 2,500 migrants who have landed in Malaysia and Indonesia over the past week or some 5,000 others still stranded at sea. (reuters.com)
White House spokesman Eric Schultz said that Washington continued to raise its concerns with Myanmar over the migrants "because of dire humanitarian and economic situations they face at home out of fear of ethnic and religious violence. (reuters.com)
The protection of migrants within Myanmar and in their destination countries is a national priority for the Government. (iom.int)
Migrants are often vulnerable to poorer health access and treatment and IOM works with the Myanmar Government and a range of international and local partners to improve migrant health outcomes. (iom.int)
Myanmar migrants in the region send large amounts of remittances which help boost the economy, much of it through unofficial channels. (iom.int)
Promoting the mainstreaming of migrant issues into Government policy and programmes, building capacity of our partners and ensuring effective advocacy and protection of Myanmar migrants are national priorities for the management migration in Myanmar. (iom.int)

State-run TV and radio issued a statement Friday arguing that conditions inside Myanmar - a reference to the anti government protests that were violently suppressed by troops on Sept. 26 and 27 - were not the concern of the outside world. (nownews.com)
They say ongoing attacks by government troops will force them to take the offensive. (rfa.org)
Fighting between Kokang rebels and Myanmar government troops. (wsj.com)
Fighting in the Per Her area started June 2 and intensified Friday when some 900 Myanmar and DKBA troops launched multiple mortar attacks on the camp near the Thai-Myanmar border, Karen sources said. (thaindian.com)
Ethnic Kokang rebels fighting against government troops in northeastern Myanmar declared a unilateral ceasefire on Thursday. (voanews.com)

Practitioners and policymakers from governments, international organizations and NGOs will benefit from its findings. (springer.com)
For the last several decades, the WHO , UN and various NGOs have all made up the difference between what a functioning public healthcare system should have been able to provide - in particular with respect to communicable diseases - and what little the government system was actually capable of delivering. (forbes.com)
The French foreign minister suggested the creation of a trust fund, which will be administered by non-government organizations (NGOs) to help ordinary people set up businesses. (jhu.edu)
To ensure its 56m people have access to better care, and mindful of the challenges, the administration is increasingly open to assistance from foreign governments, NGOs and private firms. (oxfordbusinessgroup.com)
But Tindyebwa acknowledges that for all the benefits the web might bring, governments are also as a result able to spy on the activities of citizens and NGOs. (euractiv.com)

A visa-free movement regime (FMR) exists in the four states along the Indo-Myanmar border, under which people from both countries can stay for up to 72 hours in the area with effective and valid permits issued by the designated authorities on either side. (hindustantimes.com)
This latest campaign of violence against Rohingya comes in the context of a long history of abuse and discrimination against Rohingya women by Myanmar authorities. (hrw.org)
Recently the U.N. also highlighted disturbing reports of Myanmar authorities laying landmines along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. (brookings.edu)
But he stressed that the authorities at all levels recognized the problems and pointed to positive measures taken by the Government, such as the establishment of monitoring mechanisms to visit places of detention and proposals to amend the criminal code to include torture. (scoop.co.nz)
In 1961, more than 200 ethnic leaders from the Shan people, Kachin people, Red Karen, Karen people, Chin peoples, Mon people and Rakhine people met with ethnic Bamar (Burmese) central government authorities to draft a new form of government which would ensure the tribes both autonomy and self-determination within a federal system. (wikitravel.org)

This volume examines the protracted refugee situation at the Thai-Myanmar border. (springer.com)
Bangladesh has repeatedly said that no one will be forced to go back to Myanmar, but with little information given to those living in a sprawling refugee camp at Cox's Bazar, the process has been steeped in rumor, fear and uncertainty. (waaytv.com)
We are scared to return to Myanmar because if we go they will kill us," 51-year-old Rohingya refugee Majeda told CNN. (waaytv.com)
No refugee in Bangladesh should be forced into hiding because they think they will be forced back to Myanmar. (waaytv.com)
At the outset of the refugee crisis, the Bangladesh government had drawn very good international attention through its diplomatic efforts, which recently seems to have dimmed. (arabnews.com)
The international migration agency fears a continuation of violence against Rohingyas in the new year, which has compelled them to leave the Myanmar and live an austere life in Bangladesh's refugee camps. (arabnews.com)
Refugee camps near Bangladesh's border with Myanmar already had about 3 lakh Rohingya before the upsurge in violence and are now overwhelmed. (mid-day.com)

China's relationship with Aung San Suu Kyi was largely suppressed under the military government. (atimes.com)
The military government, which rejected the results of the election, allegedly did not take kindly to China's initiative toward the NLD. (atimes.com)
A large number of Rohingya Mulisms have fled Myanmar and are seeking refuge in India following a crackdown by the military in Rakhine province. (hindustantimes.com)
The 15-member Security Council issued its first statement on Myanmar on Thursday in an attempt to pressure the military rulers - in charge of the isolated country since 1988 - to enter a dialogue with the opposition and make moves toward democratic reforms. (nownews.com)
Why Does the Myanmar Military Rebuff the Work of the Constitutional Amendment Committee? (irrawaddy.com)
As for Myanmar, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a routine note to Congress last week that Washington - while not curtailing engagement with Myanmar after decades of military rule - would maintain some sanctions on the country. (reuters.com)
He says the military will crush any 'color revolution' that threatens the government. (rfa.org)
The authors uncover this dynamic in Myanmar, a country transitioning from four decades of military rule. (cambridge.org)
Fearing that the new civilian government will assert authority over jade mining, the military initiated violence in mining townships. (cambridge.org)
As Myanmar started to transition in 2011, conflicts instigated by the military in jademining areas sharply rose. (cambridge.org)
And what she has said and what the rest of her ministers have said have, on the contrary, aligned the civilian government with the military. (npr.org)
Amnesty says those words, spoken by a military commander, sum up the mindset of Myanmar soldiers in dealing with the Muslim Rohingya, about 700 000 of whom have fled into Bangladesh. (news24.com)
Certainly, though, the election will not bring full democracy to this nation, which spent nearly five decades under brutal military rule and the last five years under a quasi-civilian government. (csmonitor.com)
Military leader General Ne Win led a coup d'etat which ousted the democratically elected government in 1962, and subsequently installed himself as leader. (wikitravel.org)
General Ne Win dominated the government from 1962 to 1988, first as military ruler, then as self-appointed president, and later as political kingpin. (wikitravel.org)
The Myanmar military regime's harsh crackdown on popular demonstrations in September 2007 has generated intense international condemnation as well as other responses. (jhu.edu)
The article emphasizes the need for simultaneously devising new strategies to put pressure upon the Myanmar military regime to undertake economic reforms that not only address inefficiencies and mismanagements, but most particularly resonant with the needs of the majority of the population in Myanmar. (jhu.edu)
The assumption behind these punitive economic measures is that positive political developments are necessary for economic change, and therefore the Myanmar military regime must be required to implement some measures of democratic reform before sanctions are lifted and foreign aid and investment can return. (jhu.edu)
Of the more than 655,000 Rohingya who have fled to Bangladesh since the Myanmar military began its crackdown in late August, around 380,000 are minors, according to Save the Children, the international aid organization. (nytimes.com)
But the cooperation has frayed in the last decade as Myanmar has emerged from a half-century of isolation under a military junta. (nytimes.com)
A deadlock appeared inevitable since the government and military continued to insist that only by signing the existing ceasefire agreement could armed groups join the peace process. (crisisgroup.org)
After obtaining concessions from the Myanmar government and military, a Chinese envoy convinced representatives of the seven north-eastern armed groups to attend the conference. (crisisgroup.org)
More than 720,000 Rohingya fled into Bangladesh following a systematic campaign by the Myanmar military that began in August last year. (waaytv.com)
These are the winners in last fall's historic elections that saw pro-democracy parties roundly oust the military-led government. (csmonitor.com)
A recent Reuters report noted that Myanmar was the only developing country in Southeast Asia where spending on the military is higher than combined spending on healthcare and education. (bangkokpost.com)
Of 471 Rakhine villages selected for "clearance operations" by the military, 176 have been emptied, according to the Myanmar government, which has said it needs to clear out extremists. (theglobeandmail.com)
Whenever I feel the pain [from the wound] or think about what the military people did in Myanmar, I remember that. (doctorswithoutborders.org)
He said the US should re-impose sanctions on Myanmar that were in place before it made transition from military to civilian rule. (france24.com)
The amnesty was one of at least a dozen the reformist, quasi-civilian government has granted since taking over in March 2011 from a military leadership. (dailymirror.lk)

Fortify Rights also documented and analyzed the testimony of more than 17 witnesses to rapes in October and November, and from 14 Rohingya who provided additional information related to rape committed by Myanmar army soldiers in the above villages and other villages during that period. (hrw.org)
Witnesses and survivors of rape described to Fortify Rights how Myanmar army soldiers gang raped Rohingya women and girls in homes, schools, paddy fields, forested areas, and other community buildings, often in plain view of other soldiers and civilians. (hrw.org)
The Myanmar government has denied that its soldiers deliberately attacked unarmed Rohingya. (waaytv.com)
Sakhina Begum, a Rohingya woman, watched soldiers set fire to her home in Myanmar. (theglobeandmail.com)
But as she watched Thursday afternoon, five Myanmar soldiers approached, she said. (theglobeandmail.com)
But in more than a dozen interviews on the border with Myanmar, The Globe learned that Myanmar soldiers continue to set fire to Rohingya homes and to attack those attempting to flee. (theglobeandmail.com)

Since 25 August over 688,000 Rohingyas has fled targeted violence in Myanmar and sought safety across the border in Bangladesh. (msf.ie)
Bangladesh would set up five transit camps to send Rohingyas to two reception centers on the Myanmar side of the border, the statement said. (com.sa)

KELLY: We should mention, she is - she leads the civilian government in Myanmar. (npr.org)
But at the same time, she hasn't said anything to differentiate the civilian government. (npr.org)
But officials in Washington have been careful not to undermine the weak civilian government of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, which took office last year, ending five decades of ruinous army rule. (france24.com)

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) will form a government in Myanmar next year. (upenn.edu)

WASHINGTON (AP) - A senior administration official says President Barack Obama will meet privately with Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the White House Wednesday. (spokesman.com)

In 2002, the Government of Myanmar approached the Indian Government to study the northern Andaman Sea. (mizzima.com)
So there were twelve scientists from Myanmar, including some lady scientists, there were three of them who came to India and we went on this cruise, we studied the northern Andaman Sea. (mizzima.com)
So this cruise of 35 days where India and Myanmar scientists participated has shown a very good understanding of the Andaman Sea, both in terms of climate, in terms of geology, in terms of fisheries, in terms of meteorology, every aspect, it has given a lot of information. (mizzima.com)

Myanmar national security adviser Thaung Tun told Reuters on Monday that Myanmar would ensure those who left their homes could return, but there was "a process we have to discuss. (reuters.com)

The government said that 92 of these - mostly independent and ethnic news organizations - were providing "fake news. (vice.com)
Government agencies stressed that vector control is important to tackle Zika infection, Xinhua news agency reported. (newsx.com)
The Chinese government also exercises stringent control over the media, and has even managed to force non-governmental media agencies (such as News Corporation ) to follow the party line. (everything2.com)

After a meeting between delegations of the two countries in Dhaka on Friday, Kamal said Bangladesh has listed around 1.1 million Myanmar nationals who have crossed the border. (einnews.com)
Myanmar Home Minister Lt Gen Kyaw Swe arrived in Dhaka yesterday afternoon on a three-day visit to Bangladesh. (einnews.com)
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, wo lambasted Myanmar for 'atrocities' during a visit to border camps last week, left Dhaka to address the annual UN gathering in New York . (france24.com)

The Myanmar Government estimate that there are 4.25 million Myanmar nationals living abroad. (iom.int)

The study of the oceans is crucial for countries such as India and Myanmar because it helps governments to predict and manage responses to climatic and ocean changes, particularly monsoon rains and drought, and the dangers posed by potentially deadly cyclones. (mizzima.com)
Mizzima recently interviewed an Indian oceanography specialist Dr V Ramaswamy in Goa, India to discuss his work and cooperation with Myanmar to keep a close eye on the oceans and to allow the countries a better chance of handling extreme weather conditions - not least the type of damage seen in Myanmar as a result of 2008 Cyclone Nargis. (mizzima.com)
There were twelve people from Myanmar and nineteen from India. (mizzima.com)
So they have invited people from all over the world, so our views were sought, and many countries said that the basis of the studies is the work done by India and Myanmar in 2002. (mizzima.com)

Abdus Salam, the top government administrator in the Cox's Bazar district hospital, said that some 150,000 children will be immunized over seven days for measles, rubella and polio. (france24.com)

In 2007, the Myanmar government shut down the Internet during anti-government protests. (ecommercetimes.com)

The ministry of home affairs (MHA) is reviewing the impact of a bilateral agreement with Myanmar , which allows free movement of people from the two countries within 16km of the Indo-Myanmar border. (hindustantimes.com)
UNICEF has been working with the Government and the people of Myanmar since 1950. (unicef.org)
The world's longest-running internet shutdown has left over a million people in Myanmar in the dark for a year, and many of those in the affected region don't even know about the global coronavirus pandemic. (vice.com)
However, the vast majority of people in Myanmar rely on mobile internet to access online information. (vice.com)
MSF calls on the Myanmar government to take action to ensure displaced people, and those cut off from services, have proper shelter and access to healthcare. (msf.org.uk)
MSF has been providing healthcare in Myanmar since 1992, providing medical care to millions of people hailing from countless ethnic origins. (msf.org.uk)
Across Myanmar, MSF provides more than 28,000 people with lifesaving anti-retroviral treatment for AIDS and was amongst the very first responders to cyclones Nargis and Giri providing medical assistance, survival items and clean water sources for tens of thousands of people. (msf.org.uk)
The Kayan people of Myanmar are a subgroup of the Karenni people ( Red Karen). (worldatlas.com)
The government of Myanmar will continue to implement the seven-step roadmap together with the people," the statement said, referring to the junta's plan that promises a new constitution and an eventual transition to democratic rule. (nownews.com)
The Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) has suggested that apparel stitching factories be set up in Ponnakyun, Sittwe in a bid to create job opportunities for local people and also stop migration. (consult-myanmar.com)
Merlin , a UK specialist health charity is coordinating an emergency response to help the thousands of people affected by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. (prweb.com)
The Myanmar government says about 400 people have been killed in the fighting. (reuters.com)
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi) should agree that these people belong to her country and that Myanmar is their country. (reuters.com)
There are another half a million "internally displaced people" in camps in eastern Myanmar. (thaindian.com)
Talking to this newspaper, Mozammel Haque Chowdhury, secretary general of Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity, said, "The ill effort to victimise people and put the government in a precarious situation is not expected in any way. (thedailystar.net)
Of the 53.9 million people living within Myanmar, 70 per cent live in rural areas. (iom.int)
With only one doctor for every 2772 people and only one psychiatric hospital in the country, Myanmar ranks 190 out of 191 in overall health system performance, according to the World Health Organization. (austrade.gov.au)
Foreign Minister Winston Peters today acknowledged the ruling of the International Court of Justice in relation to the Rohingya people in Myanmar. (beehive.govt.nz)
The supplies should be enough for 10,000 people, the agency said, and will be distributed through a disaster management committee that has been established by the Myanmar government. (cnn.com)
In Jaipur, Rajasthan's capital, a city of 30 lakh people that is bustling with traditional bazaars, offices and modern buildings, there are pockets where government beneficence does not reach and where hundreds of families work to eke out a survival without any social security. (newsblaze.com)
Not only has the government failed to pay some people for weeks, but CBC-Radio-Canada now reveals that it has overpaid others for a total of almost $70 million and only about one-third of that has been recovered. (rcinet.ca)
It is not a new development: in 2011, the Egyptian government cut internet and mobile access to 80 million people when protesters gathered in Cairo's Tahrir square. (euractiv.com)
She is a big advocate of people publishing information about political and government leaders online and asking questions. (euractiv.com)
Not only can governments get information on people but they can also prevent the spread of it. (euractiv.com)
If the trend in southern Africa continues then most people are not going to know how to filter information and data, meaning there is a risk that the web will just be used as a manipulation tool by governments," he explained. (euractiv.com)
Although governments are taking actions in protection the monkeys, but it's more important to improve the living standard of local people and heighten public awareness on conservation and sustainable use of natural resources and wildlife. (eurekalert.org)

In a country like Myanmar, financial inclusion is a topic of growing importance. (consult-myanmar.com)
The situation is exacerbating poverty in the country, although the government is taking measures to tackle it. (rfa.org)
Within a country like Myanmar, several other pieces have to be in place for sustainable success. (forbes.com)
First, as I shared last week , most policy analysts watching Myanmar are quick to point out, the country continues to struggle with a handful of unresolved political questions that have the potential to prove destabilizing, at least in the short-to-mid term. (forbes.com)
But she's also said that Myanmar is a very young country and stressed that they face many, many problems. (npr.org)
Regionally, Myanmar has grown to be the largest migration source country in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS). (iom.int)
Pro-democracy demonstrations in 1988 were violently crushed, with general Saw Maung taking over in a coup and installing the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) to rule the country, now renamed Myanmar . (wikitravel.org)
The Myanmar health care sector faces many challenges, however progress is being made in both the public and private sectors to improve access to services across the country for its 53 million citizens. (austrade.gov.au)
Health solutions: The healthcare network in Myanmar is spread throughout the country. (austrade.gov.au)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is signaling guarded support for the easing of the remaining U.S. economic sanctions on her country. (spokesman.com)
New Zealand has regained its position as the least corrupt country in the world for the second time under this Coalition Government, says Justice Minister Andrew Little. (beehive.govt.nz)
Much of the country is without electricity, communications and transportation, according to Myanmar state radio and opposition sources. (cnn.com)
The newly installed government has also put education at the heart of its reform agenda, recognising its potential for lifting the country out of poverty. (oxfordbusinessgroup.com)
For a country like Myanmar that is just re-emerging from economic isolation, this is a huge undertaking. (worldbank.org)
Even with increased investment in the healthcare sector, Myanmar faces a long list of challenges when it comes to improving healthcare in the country. (bangkokpost.com)
The figures may have raised eyebrows in Myanmar, given the official statistics that showed that aggregate investment from Japan in the country stood at only $387.4 million at the end of January 2014. (nationmultimedia.com)

Faltering government reforms and raging violence against ethnic minorities have led Obama and U.S. officials to downgrade their praise for Myanmar, which recently began to emerge from years of totalitarian rule and was quickly embraced by the Obama administration. (latimes.com)
The EU, United States and other Western countries have increased aid and investment and suspended most sanctions, partly in response to Myanmar freeing of hundreds of political prisoners and other liberal reforms unimaginable under the juntas that ruled for 49 unbroken years. (dailymirror.lk)

The Ministry of the Office of the Union Government is a ministry-level body that serves the Government of Myanmar. (wikipedia.org)
In forming the Ministry of the Office of the Union Government, the office routine work will be carried out with the labor forces of the set-up of the Office of the Union Government. (wikipedia.org)
While official estimates are that Myanmar only receives $118 million USD in remittances in 2015, the then Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security estimated that remittances could be as high as $8 billion USD. (iom.int)
For example, according to a 2012 annual report published by the Myanmar Ministry of Health, rural health centres have only increased from 1,337 to 1,565 since 1988. (bangkokpost.com)
A statement by the Bangladesh foreign ministry said the return effort envisages 'considering the family as a unit,' with Myanmar providing temporary shelter for those returning before rebuilding houses for them. (com.sa)
A recent report from the Myanmar Ministry of Post and Telecom states that mobile penetration has reached 90% (or 89.38% rather), and the number of Internet users has reached 39 million, according to supply-side data. (lirneasia.net)

In partnership with the Government and the civil society, UNICEF's current focus of work aims at reducing child mortality, improving access and quality of education and protecting children from violence, abuse and exploitation. (unicef.org)
With implications beyond Myanmar, the authors argue that outgoing generals can use instability to retain rents where plausible challengers to state authority provide a pretense for violence. (cambridge.org)
Despite calls from international rights groups for stronger action to stop the violence in Myanmar, there appears to be little appetite within the wider international community for more robust intervention, writes Lynn Kuok. (brookings.edu)
The region's leaders must show compassion for the Rohingya and push Myanmar to take steps to end the violence, discrimination, and persecution that forced out the Rohingya. (msf.org.au)
Fire consumes the home of Sakhina Begum, a Rohingya woman, on Thursday amid a continued campaign of violence in Myanmar. (theglobeandmail.com)

The days when Myanmar was almost as impenetrable as North Korea and the economy. (intrepidtravel.com)

The State and Region Governments (Burmese: ပြည်နယ်နှင့်တိုင်းဒေသကြီးအစိုးရအဖွဲ့များ) are the sub-cabinet of each states and regions of Myanmar. (wikipedia.org)
MANDALAY, Myanmar - On a recent sweltering afternoon on the Irrawaddy River, about 10 miles upstream from the city of Mandalay, a Burmese fisherman tapped a small teak dowel against the hull of his squat wooden boat, producing a xylophonic beat. (nytimes.com)

Voters line up in Mandalay, Myanmar, to vote in Sunday's general election. (csmonitor.com)

Director-General and Spokesman of the President's Office U Zaw Htay refuted the false executive order proliferating on Facebook, which is said to have been issued by the top office, the Global New Light of Myanmar reported. (sentinelassam.com)

Instead, the Myanmar government puts the blame on Western economic sanctions for the nation's economic woes. (jhu.edu)
U.S. officials are reportedly set to urge that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson formally declare ethnic cleansing is going on as lawmakers seek new sanctions against Myanmar. (nbcdfw.com)

Hundreds of new politicians in Myanmar are moving their belongings into scruffy government dormitories in Naypyitaw, the capital. (csmonitor.com)

also must-reads for anyone seeking a better understanding of the displaced population on the Thai-Myanmar border. (springer.com)
Patients seeking care on the Thai-Myanmar border report that bribery is a common and a widely accepted aspect of getting healthcare in Myanmar. (bangkokpost.com)

Rebel spokesman Htun Myat Lin told The Associated Press the Kokang fighters made the declaration in response to an appeal by China for a peace along the border region and to ensure that elections expected in Myanmar later this year are peaceful in the area. (voanews.com)

Following this attack, the government designated the organization responsible, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), also known as Harakah al-Yaqin, a terrorist group. (brookings.edu)
Ansar fled Myanmar in late September when the Myanmar Army attacked his village. (msf.ie)

The historical talks involving the largest number of ethnic armed groups came two days after leaders of 17 ethnic armed groups signed an 11-point framework agreement themselves in Laiza of the state to prepare for a nationwide ceasefire deal with the government. (philippinestoday.net)
The ethnic armed groups' 11-point draft framework agreement, which mainly called for holding political dialogue with the government soonest after the latter promises a ceasefire with all the groups, will be presented for the two-day talks. (philippinestoday.net)
The government side was headed by Vice Chairman of the Central Peace-Making Work Committee U Aung Min, while the 15 ethnic armed groups were represented by their leaders. (philippinestoday.net)
The Myitgyina talks are expected to work out a comprehensive ceasefire paper for the final signing of a nationwide ceasefire accord between the government and the ethnic armed groups. (philippinestoday.net)
A total of 17 ethnic armed groups signed an 11-point framework agreement among themselves at the closing of their four-day Conference of Leaders of Ethnic Armed Groups in the border town of Laiza, northernmost Kachin state, for further negotiation for a nationwide ceasefire with the government. (philippinestoday.net)

More money is being channelled into the sector as officials seek to build a 21st-century education system to help push Myanmar into the ranks of the upper-middle-income nations by 2030. (oxfordbusinessgroup.com)

Myanmar terms the Rohingya "Bengalis", a name most Rohingya reject because it implies they are immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh despite having lived in Myanmar for generations. (reuters.com)
Myanmar doesn't acknowledge them as a local ethnic group and won't give them citizenship, even though they have lived in Myanmar for generations. (nbcdfw.com)

Trump says the move is needed to prevent terrorist attacks and allow the government to put in place more stringent vetting procedures. (reuters.com)

KELLY: Well, and - did she dispute in any way the scale of this horrific exodus we're witnessing - something like 400,000 Rohingya who've fled Myanmar across the border into Bangladesh? (npr.org)
China has complained of cross-border firing several times and urged Myanmar to restore stability. (voanews.com)
The British government has recently announced its intention to increase its cross-border aid to internally displaced peoples and its support for pro-democracy and human rights projects. (jhu.edu)
Most of the Rohingya are arriving by foot or boat across Bangladesh's border with Myanmar. (mid-day.com)

The event had been delayed by three months as the government struggled to convince more armed groups to sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA). (crisisgroup.org)
As a result, fifteen of 21 armed groups were present for the opening - the eight that signed the ceasefire agreement and the seven in the new Wa alliance - a symbolically important win for the government. (crisisgroup.org)
They remain unwilling to sign the current ceasefire agreement and the government remains unwilling to revise it. (crisisgroup.org)

IOM provides logistical and operational support to the family reunification of Myanmar nationals whose family members are residing overseas. (iom.int)

But even if citizens in the affected region were able to get online, the government has also blocked thousands of websites. (vice.com)
The Rohingya are a stateless minority group, not recognised as citizens by the Government of Myanmar. (msf.org.uk)
Although she was prohibited from becoming the President due to a clause in the constitution - her late husband and children are foreign citizens - she assumed the newly created role of State Counsellor , a role akin to a Prime Minister or a head of government . (wikipedia.org)
It will assess the rationale behind these varying measures and their impacts upon Myanmar citizens, the economy, and the regime's survival and future prospects. (jhu.edu)

Myanmar and ASEAN discuss repa. (mizzima.com)

When Myanmar opened to the West, one of the first sectors multinationals were most excited to pursue was the healthcare market. (forbes.com)
While government spending on healthcare is increasing, much of what will drive the growth for multinationals in Myanmar will be out of pocket spending by individual consumers. (forbes.com)
While the increase is promising, Myanmar remains one of the world's lowest countries in terms of total money allocated to healthcare. (bangkokpost.com)
According to the World Bank, Myanmar is in the lowest percentile for government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and control of corruption-all key factors when it comes to ensuring that the increased spending on healthcare reaches intended targets. (bangkokpost.com)
However, it is important that the government also play a role in contributing to reliable, consistent, and long-term data collection and analysis that can help identify priorities in healthcare delivery and investment. (bangkokpost.com)
Because Myanmar faces a long road in rebuilding its ailing healthcare system, a strategic and measured approach must be employed. (bangkokpost.com)

In Urumqi, in the Xinjiang region, Han Chinese, brought there by Beijing to water down the Muslim, independent-thinking Uighurs, claim that Uighurs are attacking them in the streets with hypodermic needles filled with the AIDS virus, and complain the government isn't doing enough to protect them. (toledoblade.com)

President Obama meets with Myanmar President Thein Sein at the presidential palace in Naypyidaw. (latimes.com)

The explosion a week and a half ago came after jets had circled the frontier for days, occasionally bombing targets in the Myanmar region of Kokang. (wsj.com)
The government of Myanmar, in advance of elections set for next year, allegedly clamped down militarily on separatists in the Kokang region, which borders China. (toledoblade.com)

The population of the Kayan is estimated at 130,000, of whom more than half live in Myanmar. (worldatlas.com)
Dwindling numbers of the endangered dolphins live in freshwater rivers and bays, including in Bangladesh and Indonesia, but only the population in Myanmar has been definitively documented as cooperating with humans. (nytimes.com)
In Myanmar, 60% of the population consists of mothers and children, and they are the groups most vulnerable to anemia. (ajtmh.org)

The president's advisors say he has too much invested to walk away from Myanmar, and he doesn't see the current troubles as a death knell for the democracy movement. (latimes.com)
This time, however, there is hope that the election will move Myanmar a step closer to democracy. (csmonitor.com)
Critics have called for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi , the democracy icon and Nobel winner, to be stripped of her peace laureate. (theglobeandmail.com)

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