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Myanmar dam overflow floods 100 villages

September 3, 2018 by Thiha

Monsoon rains caused a central Myanmar dam to overflow early Wednesday, inundating about 100 villages and blocking the country’s biggest highway, a government official said. No casualties have been reported but thousands were displaced and took shelter in temporary camps. Swar Chaung dam’s spillway structure, which regulates the release of water from the levee, broke […]

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Tears flow as Myanmar swears in first president with no army ties in more than 50 years

April 1, 2016 by Thiha

NayPyiTaw/Yangon: Members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s victorious National League for Democracy (NLD) were in tears on Wednesday as Myanmar swore in its first president with no military ties in more than half a century. Htin Kyaw, a close friend and confidant of the Nobel peace prize laureate, was hand-picked by her to run Myanmar’s […]

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Suu Kyi’s novice MPs learn ropes in outgoing Myanmar parliament

January 28, 2016 by Thiha

Hundreds of newly-elected Myanmar MPs from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party took lessons in lawmaking from the outgoing army-dominated parliament on Wednesday (Jan 27), days before taking their seats in the most democratic legislature for decades. A landslide victory for Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) in November polls will give the politicians their […]