Tag: Myanmar

Israel and Myanmar, two countries with troubled human rights records and disputed histories of dealing with ethnic and national rights, have set a worrisome precedent by giving each other a ...

A host of conflicts, stretching across the Asian landmass from the Middle East to Southeast Asia and northwest China, are likely to spark violence, complicate economic development, and dash hopes ...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (11:15 AM) - Police have opened fire on Buddhist radicals who tried to take over government property in the Rakhine State on Tuesday. A group of around 5,000 ...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (12:30) - A group of prominent Orthodox Jewish leaders has asked the Knesset to investigate reports that Myanmar is actively using Israeli weapons in its violent persecution of ...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (3:00 PM) - A court in Myanmar has sentenced two foreign journalists to a two month jail time for alleged violation of an aircraft law by using a ...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (11:30 AM) - The military forces of Myanmar, together with extremist Buddhist vigilante lynch mobs, are still actively persecuting the Rohingya minority in the state of Rakhine, a ...

Thousands of persecuted Rohingyas were slaughtered and burnt alive and some 100,000 more were forced to flee their burning villages to neighboring Bangladesh, many with bullet wounds, after Myanmar’s army ...

Children, women and men in Rohingya are passing the days of a red-colored horror. Military forces behead, fire or cut the people’s bodies into pieces in a program easily identifiable ...

The Chinese military will hold a live-fire exercise near its border with Myanmar, state media reported Monday. The official Xinhua news agency, citing unidentified military sources, said the drill would ...

Nearly 50 soldiers have been killed in recent fighting with rebels in a northern border area near China, Myanmar's state media said Friday, the latest blow to government hopes for ...