COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) - A once-fearsome cyclone that was threatening Bangladesh and Myanmar dissipated quickly, causing some deaths but largely relieving authorities who had told more than 1 million people to leave vulnerable coastal area... [Full Article]
SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) - A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar's western coast, the order to evacuate ahead of the storm was met with widespread refusal. (Sour... [Full Article]
SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) - A massive evacuation to clear low-lying camps ahead of a cyclone has run into a potentially deadly snag: Many members of the displaced Rohingya minority living there have refused to leave because they don't trust Myanmar a... [Full Article]
MAE LA REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand (AP) - Since the day she was born, 20-year-old Naw Lawnadoo has known almost nothing of the world beyond the fence and guard posts that hem her in with 45,000 others - ethnic minorities from Myanmar and those like her wh... [Full Article]
By Jared Ferrie WIN KITE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Three Muslim men peered over a bamboo fence built recently to fortify their village in central Myanmar. They gazed across dry rice paddies towards a nearby Buddhist community, looking for rising dust, a s... [Full Article]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia's elite anti-terror squad seized five homemade bombs and arrested two suspected militants who allegedly planned to attack the Myanmar Embassy to protest that country's treatment of Muslims, police said Fr... [Full Article]
OKKAN, Myanmar (AP) - They slept terrified in the fields, watching their homes burn through the night. And when they returned on Wednesday, nothing was left but smoldering ash and debris. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
OKKAN, Myanmar (AP) - They slept terrified in the fields, watching their homes burn through the night. And when they returned Wednesday, nothing was left but smoldering ash and debris. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
OKKAN, Myanmar (AP) - They slept terrified in the fields, watching their homes burn through the night. And when they returned Wednesday, nothing was left but ashen debris. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - Myanmar's charismatic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi made rare comments on Wednesday on sectarian violence in her nation, but said she was "not a magician" and will not be able to solve long-r... [Full Article]
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