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United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, South Korean university professor Yanghee Lee, addresses the media in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 25 January 2019. Photo: Monirul Alam/EPA
UN expert urges caution on refugee island ‘relocation’ plan
Bangladesh must not "rush to relocate refugees" from the Rohingya Muslim minority, a top UN rights official said Friday, amid plans to move the...
US President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks on ending the partial shutdown of the federal government, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 25 January 2019. Photo: Michael Reynolds/EPA
US President Trump climbs down in wall row, government opens
President Donald Trump said Friday he will temporarily end the longest government shutdown in US history, while dropping his previous insistence on...
Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community take selfies during the Yangon Pride Boat Parade in Yangon, Myanmar, 26 January 2019. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
Myanmar’s first LGBT pride boat parade sets sail
Rainbow flags flew high and gay anthems blasted out over Yangon’s river as a flotilla of boats took to the water of Myanmar’s biggest city on...
Miss Pa-Oh Hnin Phyu Phyu Lwin walks on stage as she participates in the Miss Ethnic Myanmar 2019 contest during the Myanmar Ethnics Culture festival in Yangon on January 29, 2019. This event is being held between January 25 and 30. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
Miss Ethnic Myanmar pageant belies minorities’ woes
A "Miss Ethnic Myanmar" beauty pageant and a campfire dance with a buffalo skull on Tuesday brought an end to a festival celebrating the country's...
The front entrance to the state courts building in Singapore. Photo: Roslan Rahman/AFP
Myanmar’s ‘Lord Voldemort’ jailed in Singapore
A disgruntled insurance agent who took on the identity of "Lord Voldemort", Harry Potter's nemesis, and threatened to harm clients unless they paid...
This photo taken on January 12, 2019 shows armed Pan Say militiamen patrolling a bridge in Muse in Shan state, Myanmar's main gateway to China. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
Muse: Myanmar’s militia-run, billion-dollar gateway to China
With tinted windows and their militia name emblazoned on the side of their Ford truck, "Pan Say" fighters cruise the sleazy streets of Muse, Myanmar'...
Reuters' journalists Wa Lone (C, front) and Kyaw Soe Oo (C, back) are escorted by police as they leave the court after their first trial in Yangon, Myanmar, 10 January 2018. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
Jailed Reuters reporters launch last appeal to Myanmar court
Lawyers for two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years in Myanmar on charges linked to their reporting of the Rohingya crisis lodged an appeal...
US actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie, a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), arrives at the airport in Cox's Bazar in southern Bangladesh on February 4, 2019, ahead of a visit to nearby Rohingya refugee camps. Photo: AFP
Angelina Jolie visits refugee camp in Bangladesh
Angelina Jolie visited a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh on Monday ahead of a new UN appeal for nearly one billion dollars to look after the...
This photo taken on February 3, 2019 shows a farmer working at an illegal poppy field in Hopong, Myanmar Shan State. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
Myanmar’s opium farmers cling on to lucrative crop
Fields of purple opium poppy stretch across the pastures and peaks of mountainous eastern Myanmar, with many farmers reluctant to give up the...
(File) In this file photo taken on June 14, 2018 Sri Lankan guards escort firebrand Buddhist monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara after he was sentenced to six months in jail by a magistrate in Homagama. Sri Lanka's president ignored requests on February 4, 2019 to free a jailed firebrand Buddhist monk even as 518 other convicts were released to mark the independence day. Photo: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP
Sri Lanka keeps firebrand Buddhist monk behind bars
Sri Lanka's president resisted calls from the island's Buddhist hierarchy to release a jailed firebrand monk Monday, even as 518 other convicts were...

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