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27.04.2021 / 07:25

Ethnic allies of Myanmar resistance capture government base

BANGKOK – Ethnic Karen guerrillas said they captured a Myanmar army base Tuesday in what represents a morale-boosting action for those opposing the military's takeover of the country's civilian government in February.

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ASEAN leaders to meet Myanmar coup leader amid killings

JAKARTA – Southeast Asian leaders are to meet Myanmar’s top general and coup leader in an emergency summit in Indonesia Saturday, and are expected to press calls for an end to violence by security forces that has left hundreds of protesters dead as well as the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political detainees.

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Protest in Yangon ahead of regional summit on Myanmar crisis

YANGON – Protesters against Myanmar’s military coup returned Friday to the streets of downtown Yangon, defiantly chanting their opposition to the army’s seizure of power as the junta chief prepared to attend a meeting of Southeast Asian leaders on the country’s crisis.

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Southeast Asian summit to address Myanmar's post-coup crisis

BANGKOK – When the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations holds a special summit Saturday to discuss Myanmar, the regional body will be under as much scrutiny as the general who led the February coup ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

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US hits Myanmar timber and pearl firms with coup sanctions

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration on Wednesday ramped up pressure against Myanmar’s military government by imposing sanctions on two state-owned companies responsible for significant amounts of foreign income.

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China says 200 million citizens have been vaccinated

BEIJING – Around 200 million Chinese, or 14.29% of the population, have been vaccinated for COVID-19 so far, with an emphasis on front-line workers, university students and people living in border areas, a health official said Wednesday.

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Myanmar refugee crisis brewing as turmoil hits economy

BANGKOK – Aid workers and activists are warning Myanmar’s political upheavals risk causing a regional refugee crisis as the strife following a February coup displaces growing numbers of people who have lost their livelihoods.

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EU expands sanctions against Myanmar military, companies

BANGKOK – The European Union expanded its sanctions against Myanmar’s military leaders and army-controlled companies ahead of a regional meeting to discuss the worsening crisis after army leaders deposed the elected government.

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Japan journalist arrested in Myanmar, govt asks for release

TOKYO – Japan's government said Monday it is asking Myanmar to release a Japanese journalist who was arrested by security forces in its largest city of Yangon the previous day.

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Myanmar pardons prisoners, unclear if activists among them

YANGON – Myanmar's junta on Saturday announced it pardoned and released more than 23,000 prisoners to mark the new year holiday, but it wasn't immediately clear if they included pro-democracy activists who were detained in the wake of the February coup.

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Ousted Myanmar ambassador appeals for UK government help

LONDON – The ousted Myanmar ambassador to Britain has appealed to the British government to help him as he faced eviction from his London residence.

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Reports: Myanmar forces kill 82 in single day in city

YANGON – At least 82 people were killed in one day in a crackdown by Myanmar security forces on pro-democracy protesters, according to reports Saturday from independent local media and an organization that keeps track of casualties since the military’s February seizure of power.

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US sanctions on Myanmar gems target key junta funding source

BANGKOK – The latest U.S. sanctions on Myanmar target an army-controlled gems business rife with corruption and abuses that is one of the junta’s key sources of revenue.

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US hits state-owned Myanmar gem firm with coup sanctions

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration on Thursday hit Myanmar’s junta with new sanctions in response to February’s coup in the Southeast Asian nation.

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Myanmar junta limits internet, seizes satellite TV dishes

YANGON – An information blackout under Myanmar's military junta worsened Thursday as fiber broadband service, the last legal way for ordinary people to access the internet, became intermittently inaccessible on several networks.

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Myanmar security forces attack town that resisted with arms

YANGON – Security forces on Wednesday stormed a town in northwestern Myanmar where some residents had used homemade hunting rifles to resist the military's February seizure of power, killing at least seven civilians and injuring many others, local news reports said.

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Myanmar forces arrest comedian, break up doctors' protest

YANGON – Authorities in Myanmar arrested the country’s best-known comedian on Tuesday as they continue to crack down on people they accuse of helping incite nationwide protests against February's military coup.

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Myanmar's online pop-up markets raise funds for protest

BANGKOK – With security forces in Myanmar having shot dead at least 570 protesters and bystanders in the past two months, many of the country's residents see venturing out onto the street as a brave but foolhardy act.

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Myanmar junta charges celebrities with promoting protests

YANGON – Myanmar’s ruling junta stepped up its campaign against celebrities who support nationwide protests against its seizure of power, publishing wanted lists in the state press and warning against using their work.

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China reports highest rise in Covid cases since January

China has reported 32 new Covid-19 cases, marking the highest daily total since 31 January, the national health authority said.

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Minorities in Myanmar borderlands face fresh fear since coup

JAKARTA – Before each rainy season Lu Lu Aung and other farmers living in a camp for internally displaced people in Myanmar's far northern Kachin state would return to the village they fled and plant crops that would help keep them fed for the coming year.

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Myanmar anti-coup protesters launch 'Easter egg strike'

YANGON – Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar, adept at finding themes to tie together protests nationwide, took to the streets on Sunday holding painted eggs in a nod to Easter.

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Myanmar death toll mounts amid protests, military crackdown

YANGON – The civilian death toll in the crackdown by the Myanmar junta has reached 550 since the Feb. 1 coup, a human rights group said Saturday.

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China aims to vaccinate entire city in 5 days after outbreak

BEIJING – A Chinese border city hit by a fresh outbreak of COVID-19 began a five-day drive Friday to vaccinate its entire population of 300,000 people.

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Fire kills 3 in market near Rohingya camp in Bangladesh

COX'S BAZAR – COX'A fire on Friday destroyed more than 20 shops in a makeshift market near a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, killing at least three people, police and witnesses said.

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Myanmar remains mired in violence 2 months after coup

YANGON – Protesters in Myanmar on Thursday marked two months since the military seized power by once more defying the threat of lethal violence and publicly demonstrating against the toppling of the democratically elected government.

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China reports COVID-19 outbreak on border with Myanmar

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Attack by Myanmar's Kachin minority signals deepening crisis

YANGON – Kachin guerrillas attacked a police outpost in northern Myanmar early Wednesday, local media reported, in an indication of the deepening involvement of ethnic minority armed forces in the country’s popular movement seeking to unseat the junta that seized power in February.

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Thailand denies sending fleeing villagers back to Myanmar

MAE SAM LAEP – Thailand’s prime minister denied Tuesday that his country’s security forces have sent villagers back to Myanmar who fled from military airstrikes and said his government is ready to shelter anyone who is escaping fighting.

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Thousands flee into Thailand following Myanmar air strikes

YANGON – Thai authorities along the country's northwestern border braced themselves Monday for a possible influx of more ethnic Karen villagers fleeing new airstrikes from the Myanmar military.

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Protests in Myanmar as junta chief marks Armed Forces Day

YANGON – The head of Myanmar’s junta on Saturday used the occasion of the country’s Armed Forces Day to try to justify the overthrow of the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, as protesters marked the holiday by calling for even bigger demonstrations.

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EXPLAINER: Sanctioned Myanmar army businesses span spectrum

BANGKOK – The two huge Myanmar military-controlled conglomerates targeted by U.S. and UK sanctions following the army coup last month span a wide spectrum of businesses.

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UK, US impose sanctions targeting Myanmar military business

The U.K. and the United States are imposing further sanctions over human rights violations in Myanmar, Britain's top diplomat said Thursday.

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After silence strike, Myanmar protests again met with force

YANGON – Protesters against last month’s military takeover in Myanmar returned to the streets in large numbers Thursday, a day after staging a “silence strike” in which people were urged to stay home and businesses to close for the day.

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Taylor Swift donates £36,400 to mother of five whose husband died of Covid

Taylor Swift has donated $50,000 (£36,400) to a Memphis woman who lost her husband to Covid-19. The singer and her mother, Andrea, jointly donated the total goal amount of a GoFundMe appeal for Vickie Quarles, a mother of five daughters whose husband, Theodis Ray Quarles, died of coronavirus a week before Christmas.

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AP journalist Thein Zaw says he's being released in Myanmar

YANGON – Thein Zaw, a journalist for The Associated Press who was arrested last month while covering a protest against the coup in Myanmar, told his family he has been informed he is being released from detention on Wednesday.

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Myanmar junta frees hundreds held for anti-coup protests

YANGON – Hundreds of people imprisoned for protesting last month’s coup were released Wednesday in the first apparent gesture by the military to try to placate the protest movement.

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Myanmar court to review detention of AP, other journalists

YANGON – A court in Myanmar is holding hearings Wednesday on whether to continue detaining Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw and several other local members of the media who have been charged under a public order law that could see them imprisoned for up to three years.

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In Myanmar's hinterland, army uproots ethnic Karen villagers

BANGKOK – In the jungles of southeast Myanmar, the army was shooting and otherwise tyrannizing civilians long before last month’s military coup.

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Doctors' dawn march kicks off Sunday protests in Myanmar

MANDALAY – A peaceful march at dawn on Sunday by medical professionals in Myanmar’s second biggest city kicked off another day of protests around the country against last month’s coup. Security forces shot dead at least one person at a rally elsewhere.

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Fleeing coup, Myanmar refugees in India seek asylum

MIZORAM – Police officers who defied the Myanmar army’s orders to shoot opponents of the coup and escaped to India are urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to not send them back and provide them political asylum on humanitarian grounds.

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Striking Myanmar rail workers move out as protests continue

MANDALAY – Residents of Myanmar’s second-biggest city helped striking railway workers move out of their state-supplied housing Saturday after the authorities said they would have to leave if they kept supporting the protest movement against last month’s military coup.

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UN official: Myanmar people want UN sanctions, peacekeepers

CAMEROON – The people of Myanmar have huge expectations from the United Nations and the international community following the Feb. 1 coup, with many calling for sanctions and some urging the U.N. to send peacekeepers to stop the killings of peaceful protesters seeking a return to democracy, the top U.N. official in the country said Friday.

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Fleeing Myanmar policemen defy army order to kill protesters

MIZORAM – A group of Myanmar policemen recounted their escape to India after defying the Myanmar army's orders to shoot people who oppose the Feb. 1 coup in the southeast Asian country. While speaking, they raised a three-finger salute — a symbol of resistance to Myanmar’s military rulers.

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Myanmar junta chokes information flow as protests intensify

YANGON – Authorities in Myanmar arrested a spokesman for ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party as they intensify efforts to choke off the spread of information about growing protests against last month’s military takeover.

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Myanmar factory attacks put focus on Chinese influence

BANGKOK – Confusion over what exactly happened during recent attacks on factories in Myanmar has highlighted the complex and troubled nature of the country's relations with China amid a broad public backlash against a Feb. 1 coup.

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Myanmar protesters don't relent in face of deadly crackdown

YANGON – Protesters against the military takeover in Myanmar were not relenting Wednesday as the deadly crackdown on peaceful demonstrations took an increasing toll.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0