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Satellite imagery in a Human Rights Watch report documents the extent of destruction following religious violence in Burma last month — at least 800 buildings, mostly homes, burned to the ground.
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President Obama's visit to Myan;... Burma ... Myan Southeast Asia, and the country once known as Burma, got off to a rocky start when he referred to the nation, in talks with its president on Monday, as Myanmar.
Air Force One touched down in Rangoon on Monday morning, making Barack Obama the first U.S. President to ever visit the small, controversial country of Myanmar.
The government of Myanmar is ending a 50-year practice of requiring journalists to submit all their stories to a censor board before publication, but there's a catch, of course.
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In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: China pooh-poohs democracy, the BBC gets in the hacking business and Syria flexes its muscles.
Aung San Suu Kyi was award a Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her non-violent protests and efforts to support democracy in Bruma. On Saturday, she finally accepted her prize in Norway more than 20 years later.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: Burma's state media becomes less awful, North Korea loves aggregation, and the U.S. Defense Department gets Orwellian.
In a stunning turn of events for the onetime human rights disaster zone, Nobel Peace Prize-winner and former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi has been elected to Burma's parliament.
Acknowledging that the world is watching and a lot of Western diplomacy depends on Nobel Peace Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi's political campaign and upcoming elections in April, Myanmar has lifted a rally ban just hours after Suu Kyi's party complained about fair elections this morning.
It turns out releasing about 600 political prisoners was enough for the U.S. to make its own show of goodwill.
So it looks like some good may have come out of Hillary Clinton's trip to Myanmar and/or Burma in November.
The purpose of Hillary Clinton's trip to Myanmar becomes clearer as she arrives in the country today: it's not so much to hammer out any deals with the nation but rather to see how well (or poorly) the country has been behaving.
President Obama is looking to reward the historically repressive country sometimes called Burma, other times called Myanmar, for liberalizing ever so slightly this past year, reports the AP and The New York Times.
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
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Tremors felt as far away as Bangkok and Hanoi
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