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A court in Myanmar rejected the appeal that two journalists from Reuters news agency in Myanmar had lodged against their conviction. The duo Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo got...

Facebook fails to crush massive hate speech against Rohingya in Myanmar on its network. According to UN researchers, the platform has had a 'decisive role' in blasting out the brutal violence against the Muslim minority.

The sentence of seven years in prison for the two Reuters journalists who discovered a mass grave in Myanmar is a major blow to press freedom and democracy in the country.

A judge in Myanmar has sentenced two journalists from Reuters news agency, who have been detained since December last year, to seven years in prison. The two journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were accused of having obtained secret government documents about troop movements. The time since December 2017 that they are in the cell is deducted from the seven years in prison.

The President of Myanmar, Htin Kyaw, resigned with immediate effect. He wants to equip the 'tasks and responsibilities' that he had, according to a statement from his office.

After almost 700,000 Rohingya were driven out of the country with brutal force, the army of Myanmar is now rapidly building military bases at the places where formerly houses and mosques of the Muslim minority stood.

The Burmese authorities have completely destroyed dozens of Rohingya villages in the state of Rakhine after the residents were fleeing. That says human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW), which relies on satellite images.

Out of displeasure with the policy of the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Aung San Suu Kyi, a senior American diplomat has left Myanmar. Bill Richardson, a former UN diplomat, accuses Suu Kyi of a lack of moral guidance.

The Myanmar police have shot seven people in riots in the troubled province of Rakhine. Twelve other people were injured, the authorities say.

The Myanmar army accuses Rohingya insurgents of an attack on a vehicle in the province of Rakhine. In addition, three people were injured, the armed forces say.

Pope Francis has met with the Myanmar army leader Min Aung Hlaing. The men talked for a quarter of an hour in a cathedral in Yangon and exchanged gifts.

The Myanmar forces have started their own investigation into the behavior of soldiers in the state of Rakhine. More than half a million Rohingya flew in front of a violent outbreak.

At least 59 insurgents and 12 members of security forces were killed in Myanmar on Friday when rebels in the state of Rakhine attacked thirty police stations and a military base.

Rescuers have taken 31 bodies of occupants of the crash of Myanmar air force crash. The device with 122 people aboard wednesday on the coast of Myanmar due to an unknown cause in the sea.

The Myanmar Navy found the remains of the missing plane from the country on Thursday. Also, the naval ship has stored two adults and one child's bodies at about 35 kilometers from the city of Launglon in Myanmar. That was announced by the army on Thursday.

An important legal adviser to the Government of Myanmar Sunday afternoon in broad daylight shot at the Yangon airport. Could Ni was fired outside the terminal of the busiest airport in Myanmar. In the attack were two others injured.

Authorities in Myanmar Thursday sent troops and police to the approximately 187 temples and pagodas in the country that have been damaged by the earthquake on Wednesday. On that quake, with a magnitude of 6.8 on the Richter scale, three people were killed.

An earthquake in Myanmar on Wednesday certainly claimed three lives. The victims were two young girls and an adult. The famous temple complex of Bagan in the middle of the country has also damaged by the natural disaster. Buddhist temples and pagodas are among the main tourist attractions of the Asian country.

Also been to Myanmar, formerly Burma, there is an earthquake Wednesday. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the quake was in the Asian country, which registered 6.8 on the Richter scale. There are no reports of casualties or damage.

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.

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.

Myanmars former dictator Than Shwe sees his former foe Aung San Suu Kyi,null, the future leader '' of the country and promised to support her. That left his grandson out Saturday after secret talks between the ex-dictator and the Nobel Prize winner.

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.

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.

For decades it was hermetically sealed off from the outside world, but the former Burma has opened the doors in recent years put wide open. Throngs of tourists, including many Dutch, and also flow businesses to the Southeast Asian country. The powerful army deployed all tentative steps on the path of democracy, was rewarded last year with a visit by US President Obama, but remains firmly seated on the plush.

Activists for human rights in Myanmar demand that all political prisoners be released in the country. In a statement Tuesday local time, let them know that the Government of Myanmar would thus show a democracy to want to build.