Why I left the US Deep South to fight in Myanmar’s brutal civil war
Nine months ago, Azad said goodbye to his family and travelled 8,000 miles across the globe, where he swapped America’s rural ...
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Can China Reverse the Tide of Myanmar’s Spring Revolution?
Beijing has targeted anti-regime forces with threats and a blockade, but its intervention has likely come too late to rescue ...
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A Suite of Exhibitions Respond to the U.K.’s Anti-Immigration Riots
Stories of immigration are front and center in a suite of new art exhibitions at museums across London this fall.
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Myanmar Civil War: New Season, New Breakthroughs?
After a year of territorial gains, resistance fighters are nearing the second-largest city of Mandalay. Yet changing weather ...
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A famine looms large over Myanmar’s Rakhine State
Myanmar’s humanitarian nightmare – for too long forgotten by the rest of the world – is about to get even worse, with the ...
'My husband was forcibly conscripted. Months later he was dead'
The last time Chaw Su saw her husband was in March, when he was forcibly conscripted to fight for the army in Myanmar's civil ...
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All the Countries Japan Occupied in World War II
The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, ...
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UN says famine looming in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
Myanmar’s conflict-torn Rakhine state is heading toward famine, the United Nations warned on Thursday, as the country’s civil ...
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Indian Christians refute Hindu leader’s drug-trade claim
The claim by a Hindu leader that churches are involved in drug trade in India’s northeast region has sparked widespread anger ...
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Famine Looms in Myanmar’s Rakhine State: UN
UN Food Programme warns that fighting and border closures have exacerbated poverty in the rebel-held state, where food production will cover no more than 20 percent of people’s needs next year.