Myanmar

Draft excerpts from a statement obtained exclusively by POLITICO include the bracketed phrase “hold for determination” in a passage that will offer Mike Pompeo’s conclusion about how to describe the vicious campaign against Rohingya Muslims. Photo: AP

Pompeo statement shows debate over Myanmar ‘genocide’

The US Secretary of State plans to speak this week about a State Department investigation into a horrific campaign of violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority.

16 Aug 2018 - 3:29pm 3

Stung by claims that it has fuelled ethnic violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar, Facebook is stepping up efforts to prevent its network from being a source of hate speech and misinformation

Facebook uses artificial intelligence to fight hate speech in Myanmar

16 Aug 2018 - 10:24pm

A pro-democracy activist who was involved in the ‘8888 uprising‘. Photo: AFP

Does the ‘8888 Uprising’ still mean anything in Myanmar?

6 Aug 2018 - 10:37pm

Aung San Suu Kyi tries to appease international critics by forming a panel to investigate the military’s alleged atrocities in Rakhine state. But nobody seems to be buying it ...

Is Myanmar’s probe into atrocities stacked against Rohingya?

5 Aug 2018 - 10:32am 4

Kyauk Pyu port in Myanmar. Photo: Handout

Myanmar scales back China-funded port project due to debt concerns

2 Aug 2018 - 10:11pm 5

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (right) shakes hands with Myanmar's Minister for the Office of the State Counsellor Kyaw Tint Swe in Beijing on June 28. Photo: Reuters

How negotiations gave Myanmar, China a better deal in port project

2 Aug 2018 - 8:47pm

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Fears grow as flooding kills at least 12 and displaces 130,000 in Myanmar

2 Aug 2018 - 4:37am

Tourists will be required to possess at least US$1,000 in cash

Myanmar grants visa-free entry for Japanese, but Chinese must pay US$50

1 Aug 2018 - 9:34pm 8

Residents walking through floodwater in the Bago region of Myanmar on Sunday. Heavy monsoon rains have pounded the region and show no sign of abating. Photo: AFP

Myanmar floods kill at least 10 and force 54,000 from homes

29 Jul 2018 - 11:39pm

The Hpakant jade mining area where a landslide occurred earlier this month. At least 27 were feared dead in a new landslide in the remote Set Mu sub-township. Photo: EPA

At least 27 feared dead in Myanmar jade mine landslide

25 Jul 2018 - 10:48pm

Wa Lone, centre, talks to media as he is escorted by police after his trial at the court in Yangon, Myanmar on Monday. Photo: EPA-EFE

Myanmar police planted papers on reporter to entrap him, court hears

24 Jul 2018 - 4:07am 1

File photo of a razed Rohingya village in Rakhine state, Myanmar. Photo: Reuters

Key member resigns from Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis panel

21 Jul 2018 - 7:33pm

The Myanmar army also cut off food aid from Rohingya and removed fencing from their homes for a clearer line of sight, according to the report. Photo: AP

Myanmar military seized weapons from Rohingya before crackdown

19 Jul 2018 - 10:59pm

While impressing on State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi the need to keep things peaceful enough for its Belt and Road Initiative to move forward, Beijing is also an implicit backer of some of Myanmar’s most powerful militants

China’s Myanmar policy: whatever’s good for business

15 Jul 2018 - 10:32am 8

Detained Reuters journalist Wa Lone. Photo: EPA

Reuters reporters to face Myanmar trial for ‘breach’ of secrecy act

9 Jul 2018 - 9:12pm

A Rohingya Muslim woman, who agreed to be identified as “S”, with her baby last month at the Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh. During her labour, she stuffed a scarf in her mouth to muffle her screams so her neighbours would not discover her pregnancy. Photo: AP

Rohingya rape survivors face awful choices as ‘sacrilegious’ births arrive

6 Jul 2018 - 6:49am 1

The Kyaukpyu port in Myanmar, where officials are hoping to begin work on a Chinese-backed deep water project. Photo: Handout

There’s no Chinese ‘debt trap’, says Myanmar minister

30 Jun 2018 - 11:15pm 24

Myanmar border guard policemen patrol along the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh in Maungdaw, Rakhine state. Photo: AFP

Myanmar transit camps sit empty as Rohingya too scared to return

30 Jun 2018 - 9:28pm 2

Filing taxes using blockchain in Indonesia. Growing better crops in Vietnam with artificial intelligence. Sending rockets into space in Singapore. Southeast Asia is quietly emerging as a breeding ground for new technology

Is Southeast Asia the next Silicon Valley?

30 Jun 2018 - 8:15am 17

Rohingya refugees gather in "no man's land" behind Myanmar's border lined with barbed wire fences in Maungdaw district, Rakhine state. Photo: AFP

China believes many Rohingya refugees can return to Myanmar

29 Jun 2018 - 4:57pm

The interior of the Yangon Excelsior hotel, a luxurious hotel refurbished from a heritage building opening soon in downtown Yangon. Photo: Ann Wang

Yangon’s luxury heritage hotels looking to East, not West, for guests

25 Jun 2018 - 7:49pm

Young Rohingya men show off their new jeans. Photo: Washington Post

Fashion statement: Rohingya refugees liberated by trousers

18 Jun 2018 - 9:50pm 3

Rohingya refugees walk as they await the arrival of a UN Security Council team at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh in April. Photo: AP

Rohingya upset UN agreement did not address citizenship

10 Jun 2018 - 8:24pm 5

Steve Gomersall runs Brighter Futures, a school which teaches English to migrants at the Thailand-Myanmar border. Photo: Winson Wong

Amid harsh conditions at Thai-Myanmar border, this English teacher strives

9 Jun 2018 - 2:04pm

Actress-turned-novelist Charmaine Craig’s mother – who went from beauty queen to resistance fighter – was the inspiration behind a 15-year project to ‘better understand Myanmar’s present through the past’

The Burmese beauty queen who became a rebel leader and resistance hero

20 Jun 2018 - 12:37pm

Thein Aung (centre) and his family travelled back to Myanmar from the United States to see the renovated family house. Photo: Ann Wang

Saving Yangon’s colonial buildings is about heritage, but also profit

31 May 2018 - 9:50am

The alternative music scene is buzzing in Myanmar’s biggest city, where until recently fellow citizens would beat up punks on the streets; we discover the bars where bands play, and why some gigs happen under expressway flyovers

Beats, not beatings: punk rockers thrive in post-junta Yangon

31 May 2018 - 9:55am 1

Rohingya Muslim refugees are seen in the Kutupalong refugee camp in the vicinity of Cox's Bazar, southeastern Bangladesh, on May 2. Photo: Kyodo

Myanmar continues ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims, US finds

30 May 2018 - 3:14am 2

Since the 19th Communist Party congress last year, China’s efforts to resolve or move past its disagreements with its neighbouring countries have resulted in warmer relations with many of them, including Japan, India and Singapore. Illustration: Craig Stephens

Why China is becoming a friendlier neighbour in Asia

27 May 2018 - 9:40pm 14

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