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Auction of Aung San Suu Kyi's Myanmar mansion fails for fourth timeThe attempted auction of Aung San Suu Kyi's Yangon mansion failed for the fourth time, with no bidders emerging despite a discounted starti...
Foreign journalists at US-backed media fear being sent to repressive homelands after Trump's cutsThe administration’s downsizing of federal agencies has led to mass layoffs, including at the US Agency for Global Media. This puts journal...
Number of journalists killed on job in 2023 declines despite Gaza: RSFReporters Without Borders revealed a decline in journalist deaths, totaling 45 in 2023 compared to 61 the previous year, notably low since ...
Five Nobel Peace laureates who won from jailNarges Mohammadi, an Iranian rights campaigner, has become the fifth Nobel Peace Prize laureate to win the award while being imprisoned. Sh...
Myanmar's Rohingyas: Five years of crisisMyanmar's military launched a ferocious crackdown against the country's Rohingya Muslim population in 2017, driving more than 740,000 refug...
Myanmar junta court jails Suu Kyi for 5 years for corruptionA Myanmar junta court on Wednesday sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail for corruption, part of a barrage of criminal cases tha...
Myanmar junta court delays verdict in Suu Kyi corruption trialSuu Kyi, 76, has been detained since the generals staged a coup and ousted her government in February last year, ending the Southeast Asian...
Myanmar junta chief halves Aung San Suu Kyi jail termSuu Kyi, 76, has been detained since the generals staged a coup and ousted her government on February 1, ending the Southeast Asian country...
Myanmar court delays verdict in Suu Kyi incitement trialA Myanmar junta court on Tuesday postponed giving a verdict in the incitement trial of deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the first ...
US journalist jailed in Myanmar for months heads homeAmerican journalist Danny Fenster, who was freed after nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, was expected to arrive in the U...
Escape from Myanmar: How reporter Mratt Kyaw Thu fled to safety in SpainIt had been an arduous few months for the journalist who quickly found himself on the military junta's wanted list for his reporting of its...
Myanmar military court sentences journalists to jailAung Kyaw, 31, a reporter for the Democratic Voice of Burma, and Zaw Zaw, 38, a freelance reporter for the online news agency Mizzima, were...
Myanmar cracked down brutally on protests, may get worseThe slide from a nascent democracy to yet another coup, as rapid as it has been brutal, opens up a grim possibility: As bad as it looks in ...
UN says 38 dead in Myanmar's 'bloodiest' day since coupInternational pressure is mounting: Western powers have repeatedly hit the generals with sanctions, Britain has called for a United Nations...
Six dead as Myanmar security forces fire at protestersThe country has been in chaos since February 1 when the military launched a coup and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, ending Myan...
Myanmar's journey back to military ruleHere is a timeline of a nation that emerged from a military dictatorship, only to plunge into a trouble-filled -- and perhaps short-lived -...
Human Rights Watch slams China's 'appalling year' of violationsA Chinese court last month handed down a four-year jail term to a citizen-journalist who reported from Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus be...
Trump, tech and TV have throttled press freedom, journalists sayIn 2020, the United Nations accused Trump's White House of mounting an "onslaught" against the media which, it said, had led to a very nega...
Reuters journalists not jailed because of profession in Myanmar: Aung San Suu KyiWa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced to 7 years of prison last week for breaching the country's hardline Official Secrets Act while repor...
- China, Cuba denounced for web censorship
These are the countries singled out by the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders as the worst culprits for systematic online censor...