ASEAN

ASEAN DOWNGRADES MYANMAR PARTICIPATION STATUS: Will the military junta become more reasonable now?
It must have been a rude awakening for the Burmese military coup-maker junta that ASEAN has taken a rather hardliner stance by downgrading its participation status which it hasn’t anticipated. On October 15, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in its emergency meeting decided to only invite a non-political representative from Myanmar but not the […]
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Biden, Indonesia’s Widodo demand Myanmar free prisoners
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Readout of President Biden's Participation in the U.S.-ASEAN Summit
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Conflict

Myanmar Junta Aims to Wipe Out Armed Resistance in Three Months
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Four dozen National League for Democracy offices targeted since February Myanmar coup
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COVID

Pfizer says antiviral pill cuts risk of severe Covid-19 by 89%
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The results appear to surpass those seen with Merck & Co's pill molnupiravir.
Economy

International accounting bodies are reputation laundering for the terrorist Myanmar military junta
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General News

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Military

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Myanmar Military abducts civilians to use them as 'human shields'
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Can Defections Take Down Myanmar’s Military?
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Myanmar Junta’s Tactic of Re-Arresting Political Prisoners is ‘Psychological Warfare’
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Politics

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November 02, 2021 6:33 AM
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