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Nepal detains 12 for illegal recruitment of citizens in Russian army
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27 March 2015
Russia, Myanmar reaffirm nuclear cooperation
Russia and Myanmar have agreed to cooperate in nuclear energy, Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear...
Screenshot from the AP video, showing an imprisoned Myanmar migrant worker on Benjina Island, Indonesia.
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27 March 2015
Myanmar slaves on Thai boats spark controversy
A year-long investigation by Associated Press reporters has revealed hundreds of Myanmar...
Solar powered unmanned aircraft could bring internet to remote areas of the world, including the hills of Myanmar. Photo: Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook
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27 March 2015
Solar-powered aircraft to bring internet to...
Myanmar could soon benefit from a project run by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to spread...
Lightning over the temporary tent housing the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft at Mandalay International Airport on March 24, 2015. Photo: Solar Impulse
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26 March 2015
Weather delays solar flight departure
The Solar Impulse team says the earliest takeoff date for their solar-powered flight on...
A drug-resistant TB patient receives treatment at a clinic in Lashio, Shan state, Myanmar. Photo: C Eddy McCall/MSF
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24 March 2015
India failing to tackle 'massive TB crisis...
India is failing to tackle a tuberculosis epidemic because of chronic shortages of funds...
Former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, seen here in March 2013, who died in Singapore aged 91 on March 23, 2015. Photo: Stephen Morrison/EPA
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23 March 2015
Singapore's first PM Lee Kuan Yew dies at 91
Singapore's first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, one of the towering figures of post-...
UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, Ms Yanghee Lee, during a press conference in Yangon on January 16, 2015. Photo: Hein Htet/Mizzima
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23 March 2015
Hate speech against UN rapporteur ‘deplored’
The Coordination Committee of Special Procedures – the 53 independent experts and bodies...
Myanmar Post chief editor U Than Htike Thu (L) and deputy chief reporter U San Moe Tun on the day of their court case, March 18, 2015. Photo: Pa Pa/Facebook
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20 March 2015
Media group condemns prison terms for defamation...
A Myanmar court’s decision sentencing two journalists to prison with hard labour for...
The refugee community from Myanmar has been shocked by a triple homicide. Photo: James Willanor
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20 March 2015
Myanmar refugee community in US shocked by...
A refugee community from Myanmar in North Carolina, US, has been shocked by a triple...
Solar Impulse 2, HB-SIB, taking off with Swiss explorer Andre Borshberg on board for the third leg Ahmedabad to Varanasi, of the Round-The-World adventure, in Ahmedabad, India, March 18, 2015. Swiss explorers Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg are attempting to circumnavigate the world flying with an aircraft, with a 72 metres wingspan, powered only by solar energy without a drop of fuel. Photo: EPA
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19 March 2015
Solar flight takes off on route to Mandalay
Solar Impulse 2 took off in the early hours of March 19 from Varanasi, India on route for...
Digital Globe satellite image dated 12 April 2004 shows a general overview of a southern part of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, eight months before the earthquake which set off tsunami waves that hit the area. Photo: EPA/Digital Globe 
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18 March 2015
6.6 earthquake hits Indonesia
A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia's Molucca Sea on March 17, the US...
Defence ministers from Southeast Asia posing for a photo during the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting in Langkawi, Malaysia on March 16, 2015. Photo: MINDEF
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17 March 2015
ASEAN looks to African Union peacekeeper model
Defense ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will study the African...

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