Tag: #Yangon
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COVID19 Call Centre Getting over 200,000 Calls a Day
A COVID19 call centre is getting over 200,000 calls a day.
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Almost 200 Rohingya caught fleeing Bangladeshi camps by boat
Yangon, Dec 17 (AFP/APP): Almost 200 Rohingya Muslims sailed more than 1,500 kilometres to escape Bangladesh refugee camps only to be arrested by Myanmar’s navy, the country’s military said Tuesday. The boat seizure came just days after Myanmar’s leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the UN’s top court to deny allegations…
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Military, government ‘cooperating’ over Suu Kyi going to ICJ
Yangon, Nov 21 (AFP/APP): Both Myanmar’s military and its civilian government are behind the decision for Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to defend her country against allegations of genocide at the UN’s top court, an army spokesman said Thursday. In a shock move, State Counsellor Suu Kyi’s office announced Wednesday the one-time democracy icon…
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Myanmar rebels kidnap over 40 police, soldiers in Rakhine
Yangon, Oct 26 (AFP/APP): Ethnic Rakhine rebels took more than 40 police officers and soldiers hostage in a brazen raid on a ferry on Saturday, Myanmar’s military said, the latest flare-up in the restive western region. The military has deployed thousands of troops to try to crush Arakan Army insurgents in the state, where the…
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600,000 Rohingya still in Myanmar at ‘serious risk of genocide’: UN
Yangon, Sept 16 (AFP/APP):Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a “serious risk of genocide”, UN investigators said Monday, warning the repatriation of a million already driven from the country by the army remains “impossible”. The fact-finding mission to Myanmar, set up by the Human Rights Council, last year branded the army operations in 2017…
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NASA pioneers malaria-predicting tech in Myanmar
Yangon, Sept 10 (AFP/APP):NASA is developing a new technique to forecast malaria outbreaks in Myanmar from space, as the emergence of new drug-resistant strains in Southeast Asia threatens efforts to wipe out the deadly disease globally. The goal of worldwide malaria eradication within a generation, by 2050, is “bold but attainable”, a report released this…