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Why pragmatic' Suu Kyi is silent on Rohingyas

Like a true Burmese, Suu Kyi probably doesn't disagree with her countrymen's condemnation of the Rohingya.

9 Oct 2018 12:24 AM IST

To send back seven of around 40,000 Rohingyas, of whom about 14,000 are registered with UNHCR, seems like tokenism but thats not so.

Rohingya move ill-advised

There has been too much of an unseemly hurry about this deportation.

5 Oct 2018 1:11 AM IST

Nobel laureate Suu Kyi has been decried overseas for failing to condemn the generals, with whom she is in a delicate power-sharing arrangement. (Photo: AP)

Canada revokes Myanmar leader Suu Kyi's honorary citizenship

The Senate voted unanimously to strip Suu Kyi, Myanmar's civilian leader, of the symbolic honour bestowed on her in...

3 Oct 2018 9:47 AM IST

Myanmars de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi looks on during the 9th Asean summit in Manila. (Photo: AFP)

Amnesty International strips Aung San Suu Kyi of highest honour

Amnesty International said it was revoking Ambassador of Conscience Award it gave Suu Kyi in 2009 while she was still...

13 Nov 2018 11:04 AM IST

The Prime Minister said India was committed to work with the with the ASEAN nations to enhance collaboration in the maritime domain. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

India shares ASEAN vision for rule based societies, values of peace:...

Thanking the leaders for their presence, PM said 'their collective presence in India has touched hearts of my 1.25...

25 Jan 2018 7:04 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi with Myanmars State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

PM Modi meets Suu Kyi, Asean meet today

Till late on Wednesday evening, eight of the 10 Asean leaders had already landed in New Delhi.

25 Jan 2018 2:51 AM IST

A Rohingya refugee reacts while holding his dead son after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Whaikhyang on Monday. AFP

Fighting only option against state violence: Rohingya militants

The United Nations condemned the Myanmar military campaign as ethnic cleansing. Buddhist-majority Myanmar rejected that.

7 Jan 2018 2:36 PM IST

Federica Mogherini. (Photo: AP)

After US, Canada, EU looking to levy sanctions on top Myanmar generals

Any new travel bans and asset freezes would be the EU's toughest measures yet to try to hold the military accountable...

23 Feb 2018 7:01 PM IST

Though Rohingya have always been persecuted in the country, it got much worse after 2012, when violence in Rakhine killed hundreds and drove about 140,000 people, most of them Rohingya, from their homes to camps. (Photo: File)

In Yangon, Rohingya fear rising persecution, hatred

Bloody military operations that followed Rohingya militant attacks in August have driven nearly 700,000 Rohingya into...

12 Feb 2018 6:38 PM IST

In a joint statement, McCain and Cardin said ultimately, it is up to the people of Myanmar to decide what the fate of their country and democracy will be. (Photo: AP)

Key senate committee passes law to impose sanctions on top Myanmar...

Authored by Senators John McCain and Ben Cardin, the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act now moves to the Senate floor...

8 Feb 2018 4:44 PM IST

The figure is the highest estimated death toll yet of violence that erupted on August 25 and triggered a massive refugee crisis, with more than 6, 20,000 Rohingya fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh in three months. (Representational image)

Widows camp': Rohingya women find solidarity in B'desh refugee...

Aid workers say women and girls are most at threat from predators and human traffickers lurking in the poorly supervised...

6 Feb 2018 11:15 AM IST

We are deeply, deeply troubled by those reports of mass graves, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told a regular news briefing. (Photo: File)

Rohingya crisis: US deeply, deeply troubled' by news of mass graves in...

Myanmar's army had said that the security forces had discovered a mass grave on the edge of a village in Rakhine State.

2 Feb 2018 4:07 PM IST