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The Belgian suicide bomber Khalid El Bakraoui hated the corrupt West and vowed revenge for the millions of deaths among Muslims as a result of Western attacks.

The Dutch IT security firm Fox-IT has exposed the conduct of espionage group Mofang. The previously unknown group carries out politically motivated attacks on computer systems in Myanmar, but also to companies doing business in the Asian country. The trail leads to China, the company announced Wednesday.

Bangladesh evacuates 2 million people from coastal areas, because there Saturday night the cyclone Roanu comes ashore.

A baby who has been given a special name last week, was born on board an aircraft. His mother decided to name the child to the airline.

Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar in fact, has vowed to build a democratic federal union in which there is room for ethnic minorities. Specific populations they are not however mentioned.

The new president of Myanmar has set free dozens of political prisoners again. The release of the 83 people to contribute to national reconciliation, the government said Sunday. Earlier this month, arrived about a hundred prisoners.

The new government in Myanmar has almost two hundred political prisoners released and put on the Buddhist New Year later this week even more dissidents at large.

The new government of Myanmar NLD party has devised a powerful role for party leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Despite objections from the military regime in the country Suu Kyi Adviser of State. Formally it is of a president, a childhood friend of the Nobel laureate, but in reality, the power to Suu Kyi.

Htin Kyaw was Wednesday sworn in as new president of Myanmar. That the BBC reported.

Htin Kyaw is the new president of Myanmar. The parliament in the country chose the 69-year-old friend and confidant of party leader Aung San Suu Kyi of the National League for Democracy (NLD) Tuesday with a relatively narrow majority.

One of the most popular tourist attractions in the temple plain of Bagan in Myanmar will soon be banned. As of March 1, it is no longer allowed to climb the centuries-old buildings, the Ministry of Culture announced Tuesday.

The Thai police have the past two years arrested 102 traffickers in the fight against slavery. In addition, 130 workers were freed, the Thai police said Tuesday.

The outgoing President of Myanmar praises the violent way in which the transfer of power has taken shape in his country. Thein Sein's party lost the first free elections since a quarter century last November destructive of the NLD, the party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

The outgoing government of Myanmar will leave more than a hundred political prisoners. That said a senior employee of the Myanmar Ministry of the Interior, who wishes to remain anonymous.

At least four people were killed by a massive earthquake in the eastern Indian state of Manipur. Nearly a hundred people were injured. The epicenter of the quake with a magnitude 6.8 was about 22 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital, Imphal, according to the report from the US Geological Survey USGS.

In Myanmar dozens of people possible re died in a landslide in a jade mine. Media speak from the region of fifty people missing, after moved a mountain with excavated soil and buried miners.

Two men from Myanmar in Thailand on Thursday sentenced to death for the murder of two British tourists in September last year. According to a court the pair guilty of murder. The victims, a British couple of 23 and 24 years, were slain on the beach at the popular holiday island of Koh Tao.

The United States easing trade restrictions on Myanmar to let shipments through its ports and airports for a period of six months. This was announced by US officials on Monday.

President Thein Sein von Myanmar said Wednesday that the transfer of power in the country will be peaceful. He spoke with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who convincingly won the election on November 8 in the Asian country.

Chances are that died about a hundred missing after a landslide in northern Myanmar. The disaster near a jade mine came by the authorities until now 113 people died. Many victims are people in mountain garbage were searching for small pieces of gemstone.

Around a hundred people in northern Myanmar was killed by a landslide. Which took place near a jade mine. Most victims are probably people in mountain garbage were searching for small pieces of gemstone.

At least 75 people in northern Myanmar was killed by a landslide. Which took place near a jade mine. Most victims are probably people in mountain garbage were searching for small pieces of gemstone.

The party of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar obtained an absolute majority in parliament. That is what the electoral commission announced Friday. Earlier on Friday said the National League for Democracy (NLD), Suu Kyi was on two seats of the majority. A quarter of the seats in parliament are reserved for the military rulers.

Aung San Suu Kyi wants with Myanmar President Thein Sein von talk to " the will of the people" to make sure now that her party has achieved an overwhelming victory in the elections on 8 November. Although the official results still waiting for it, her party National League for Democracy Wednesday already claimed 163 of the 182 seats.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi is advisable to book a great victory in the first free elections in Myanmar in 25 years. Of the 54 constituencies have been counted now, the NLD won 49 lower house seats. The House of Commons has 440 seats, of which a quarter is reserved for the military junta.

A 92-year-old British war veteran who fought in the Second World War a way out of a Japanese prisoner of war camp, deserves to have a funeral with many audiences. That call did his cousin Tony Budgett through Facebook, because the veteran has only two living relatives Tuesday be with his cremation ceremony.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi has to start twelve parliamentary seats won in the first twelve constituencies where the results became known.

The ruling Party of Union Solidarity and Development (USD) in Myanmar sitting president and ' oud' General Thein Sein on Monday admitted to have lost the parliamentary elections. The party will own words accept the outcome of the vote.

After the peaceful elections in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi called on its supporters to exercise restraint while the votes are counted yet. The politician said that her National League for Democracy (NLD) has probably achieved good results, but it should not prejudge matters.

The historic elections in Myanmar on Sunday in good order expired. The polling stations closed Sunday (local time), after all day long queues stood before the doors with people who wanted to vote. This is the first that there are free elections in Myanmar.