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Tag: Kachin

Posted inMyanmar

Insurgents target Myanmar junta’s fuel trucks

by AT Contributor May 21, 2021May 21, 2021

Myanmar’s military will beef up security in a restive region bordering China following a string of rebel ambushes on fuel supply lines that have worsened a crippling fuel shortage for the junta, state media said Friday. A huge and bloody uprising against the February coup that ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has left […]

A house is set on fire in Gawduthar village, Maungdaw township, in the north of Rakhine state, Myanmar. Photo: Reuters / Stringer
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar

Myanmar continues to make mistakes of the past

by Maung Zarni January 14, 2020February 18, 2020
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar

Breaking free from fear in Kachin

by Carleton Cole January 3, 2020February 18, 2020
Posted inAT Finance

Death toll reaches 52 in Myanmar landslide

by Alan Bonini August 11, 2019February 18, 2020
A military personnel member walks past a picture of a Sukhoi jet fighter during the Indo Defence Expo in Jakarta, Indonesia, on November 2, 2016. Photo: Reuters / Beawiharta
Posted inAT Finance, Israel, Middle East, Myanmar, Russia, World

Russia dismisses US concerns over Myanmar fighter jet sale

by Asia Times staff January 30, 2018February 18, 2020
A group of Riang (Yang-Wan-Hkun) in Myanmar in 1922. Photo: Wikimedia
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar

Clarifying Myanmar’s complex ethnic makeup

by Sai Wansai December 7, 2017December 7, 2017
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar, World

Quasi-civilian-military rule hinders quest for ceasefire

by Sai Wansai November 20, 2017November 21, 2017
A Rohingya refugee girl carries a child at the Kutupalang makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on July 8, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, South Asia, Thailand, World

Suu Kyi must stop defending Myanmar military’s crimes

by Kyaw Win July 13, 2017
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Iran, Middle East, Myanmar, World

The Vatican’s soft realpolitik will be tested by China

by Emanuele Scimia February 14, 2017February 14, 2017
UN special rapporteur on Myanmar Yanghee Lee conducts a press conference in Yangon on January 20, 2017 during the conclusion of a 12-day mission to investigate escalating violence in Myanmar's restive ethnic border areas.The government had denied UN human rights official Yanghee Lee access to violence-hit parts of Shan and Kachin states during her 12-day monitoring mission. AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar

UN Rapporteur slams right abuses in Myanmar

by Carole Oudot and Matthieu Baudey January 23, 2017February 18, 2020
Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (L) shakes hands with ethnic rebel leader General Gun Maw (R) from the Kachin Independence Army  (KIA), the military wing of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), at the conclusion of a peace conference in Naypyidaw on September 3, 2016. Photo: AFP / Aung Htet
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, European Union, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, South Asia, World

No peace in sight for Myanmar

by Bertil Lintner January 19, 2017February 18, 2020
Myanmar residents displaced from fighting between ethnic rebel groups and military troops arriving by foot and local trucks to cross the river boundary between Myanmar and China at the border village of Lung Byen near China's Yunnan province.
Photo: AFP/Joint Strategy Team/handout
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, Middle East, Myanmar, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Syria, United Kingdom, World

Kachin war explodes Myanmar’s peace drive

by Bertil Lintner January 19, 2017February 18, 2020

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