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Special Report: Plight of Muslim minority threatens Myanmar Spring

YoopyaJun 15, 20120

TAKEBI, Myanmar (Reuters) This village in northwest Myanmar has the besieged air of a refugee camp. It is clogged with people living in wooden shacks

Some 30,000 without food, shelter in Myanmar clashes

YoopyaJun 15, 20120

(Reuters) – Tens of thousands of displaced Muslim Rohingyas and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists were in need of food, water and shelter in northwestern Myanmar on

Suu Kyi welcomes world reaching out to Myanmar

YoopyaJun 14, 20120

GENEVA (AP) — Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says investment in her country should strengthen its nascent process of democratization. Businesses have been

Thousands in need of food, shelter after Myanmar clashes

YoopyaJun 14, 20120

(Reuters) – Thousands of displaced Muslim Rohingyas and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists were in need of food, water and shelter in northwestern Myanmar on Thursday after

Troops patrol in riot-hit Myanmar town to restore calm

YoopyaJun 13, 20120

(Reuters) – Soldiers and riot police patrolled the streets of the Myanmar town of Sittwe on Wednesday to enforce a state of emergency after days

In Myanmar, stigma and neglect add to HIV misery

YoopyaMay 31, 20120

(Reuters) – The mother and child who touch hands in an overcrowded Yangon hospice are not family, but their tragic history begins in the blood.

EU’s Ashton in Myanmar as stalemate sours reform push

YoopyaApr 28, 20120

By Martin Petty YANGON (Reuters) – EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton was in Myanmar on Saturday to open a “new chapter” of relations following

Myanmar ruling party rejects Suu Kyi demand to change oath

YoopyaApr 23, 20120

By Stuart Grudgings NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) – Myanmar’s ruling, army-backed party on Monday rejected demands by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to

Myanmar president holds landmark talks with rebels

YoopyaApr 7, 20120

YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s president had a landmark meeting on Saturday with one of the country’s biggest ethnic rebel groups, a mediator said, marking one

Special Report: Myanmar declares war on opium

YoopyaFeb 20, 20120

(Reuters) – In Myanmar’s new war on drugs, meet the weapon of mass destruction: the weed-whacker. Its two-stroke engine spins a metal blade, which is