Tag: Myanmar

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- 13 policemen were killed on Friday in simultaneous attacks on police stations carried out by a large number of...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- A court in Rangoon is considering a two-year appeal filed by two Burmese journalists in Reuters on December 24...

MYANMAR (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- As the world's attention focused on failed efforts to begin repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees from Bangladesh to...

INDONESIA (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- A group of 20 refugees from the Burmese Rohingya Muslim minority arrived Tuesday in a wooden boat to the Indonesian...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- Authorities in Myanmar have seized a boat carrying 93 people, apparently from Muslim Rohingya, who fled camps for displaced...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - A UN human rights investigator in Bangladesh on Tuesday urged Bangladesh to abandon plans to start deporting hundreds of...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - A human rights report commissioned by one of its organizers on its presence in Myanmar showed it had not...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - China has failed to prevent a UN fact-finding commissioner accusing the Myanmar military of genocide of Rohingya Muslims from...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The United Nations reiterated on Monday that "current conditions in Myanmar do not allow a large-scale return of Rwandan...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS via REUTERS) - Hours after the Indian TV channels announced that the country would deport seven Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - European Union trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said on Friday the bloc would send a fact-finding mission to assess sanctions...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - UN human rights council votes in favor of new probe into Myanmar atrocities against Rohingya.The U.N.'s top human...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The US State Department described the Myanmar army's persecution of the minority Muslim Rohingya as "well coordinated and planned.""The...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused neighboring Myanmar of finding new pretexts to delay the return of more...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Monday that her country had stepped up its aid to...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Myanmar's army chief warned on Monday of foreign interference as world leaders meet at the United Nations to find...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS via REUTERS) - The Myanmar military launched a planned and coordinated campaign that included mass killings, gang rape and other...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Myanmar army chief Min Aung Hlaing said on Monday that the United Nations has no right to interfere in...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - A report by the United Nations International Independent Fact-Finding Mission in Myanmar (UNAMI) called for the trial of Myanmar...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS via AP) - ICC prosecutor opens preliminary probe into Myanmar crimes against Rohingya.The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor announced Tuesday...