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Military officers march during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 78th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on March 27, 2023. Myanmar’s military government on Wednesday Feb. 14, 2024 revealed how it will implement its newly activated conscription law, saying it will draft 60,000 young men and women yearly for military service, and that call-ups will begin after the April festival marking the country’s traditional New Year. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

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Myanmar will start drafting 5,000 people a month into the military soon. Some think of fleeing
By GRANT PECK - Associated Press
Wed,02/14/24-8:48AM , 71 Reads
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government on Wednesday said it will draft 60,000 young men and women yearly for military service under its
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This photo provided by Kyaw Ko Lin shows a view of Laukkaing city in Shan state, Myanmar, Nov. 20, 2023. An alliance of ethnic armed groups in northeastern Myanmar has reportedly achieved one of the main goals it set when it launched an offensive last October by taking control of Laukkaing, a key city on the border with China, according to local residents and independent media accounts on Friday Jan. 5, 2024. (Kyaw Ko Lin via AP)

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Myanmar confirms a key northeastern city on border with China has been seized by an ethnic alliance
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Sat,01/06/24-1:37AM , 218 Reads
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it withdrew its forces from a key city on the northeastern border with China after it was taken over by an alliance of ethnic armed groups it has been battling
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Ethnic Rohingya men sit on a beach after they landed in Sabang, Aceh province, Indonesia, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. The U.N. refugee agency on Monday Dec. 4, 2023 sounded the alarm for hundreds of Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats reported to be out of supplies and adrift on the Andaman Sea. (AP Photo/Reza Saifullah, File)

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2 boats adrift in the Andaman Sea with 400 Rohingya aboard desperately need rescue, UN says
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Tue,12/05/23-2:03AM , 170 Reads
BANGKOK (AP) — An estimated 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats adrift in the Andaman Sea without adequate supplies could die if more is not done to rescue them, according to the U.N. refugee agency and aid workers.
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Tourists line up for stepping up Angkor Wat temple outside Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Dec. 31, 2017. The human rights group Amnesty International in a report released Tuesday Nov. 14, 2023 has strongly criticized the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO and its World Heritage program for failing to challenge the Cambodian government’s ongoing mass evictions at the world famous centuries-old Angkor Wat temple complex. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

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UNESCO is criticized after Cambodia evicts thousands around World Heritage site Angkor Wat
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Tue,11/14/23-6:08AM , 86 Reads
BANGKOK (AP) — The human rights group Amnesty International has strongly criticized UNESCO and its World Heritage program for failing to challenge the Cambodian government’s ongoing mass evictions at the famous centuries-old Angkor Wat temple complex.
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