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Myanmar military chief General Min Aung Hlaing (L) and National League for Democracy (NLD) party leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R) shake hands after their meeting at the Commander in-Chief's office in Naypyidaw in 2016. (Phyo Hein Kyaw / AFP)

Washington has urged the leaders of Myanmar's new military regime to refrain from violence and relinquish power, after the death of a young anti-coup protester sparked new anger against the junta.

The adventurers begin their cycle to Singapore from the new SONNE International children's centre in Yangon. (Myanmar Mix)

As media partner, Myanmar Mix provides the latest updates from the epic fundraiser. Support the new SONNE International children's centre here and read more about its work with Yangon street children here.

 Pinnapha Phrueksapan, widow of ethnic Karen leader Por Cha Lee Rakcharoen—known as Billy, stands beside the portrait of her late husband following a ceremony in Bangkok on September 16, 2019. (Joe Freeman / AFP)

The wife of a murdered Karen activist whose charred remains were found dumped in a Thai reservoir led an emotional memorial Monday, saying their five young children had been left bereft by his death.

 Sheikh Hasina speaks as she is sworn in for her fourth spell as Bangladesh's prime minister at the Presidential Palace in Dhaka on January 7, 2019. (Munir Uz Zaman / AFP)

Bangladesh's prime minister has blamed Myanmar for the failure of a recent attempt to repatriate Rohingya refugees, saying its neighbouring country did not do enough to win the community's trust.

 In this picture taken on July 23, 2019, children pose as Rohingya youth Mohammad Rafiq takes their photos with a mobile phone at the Kutupalong refugee camp. (Munir Uz Zaman / AFP)

Bangladesh on Monday ordered operators to shut down mobile phone services to almost one million Rohingya refugees living in camps in the country's southeast, an official said.

Yanghee Lee, a university professor in Seoul who is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights to Myanmar, speaks during an interview with AFP in her office at Sung Kyun Kwan University in Seoul on September 3, 2019. (Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has washed her hands of the Rohingya crisis, a UN rights investigator said Tuesday ahead of a meeting between South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and the tarnished democracy icon.

Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun were found guilty of the killings in Thailand. (AFP)

Thailand's top court upheld the death sentence against two Myanmar migrant workers on Thursday in a final appeal against their conviction of murdering two British backpackers on a holiday island in a case tainted by allegations of mismanagement.

Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun were found guilty of the killings in Thailand. (AFP)

Two Myanmar migrant workers sentenced to death for the murder of two British backpackers on a Thai holiday island will learn their fate Thursday when the verdict on their final appeal is delivered.

Naval officers wave from a warship as they leave Yangon on August 26. (Facebook / Myanmar navy)

Myanmar's navy will join maritime drills with the US in Southeast Asia next week, a spokesman said Wednesday, in a rare show of military cooperation despite Washington slapping sanctions on top army brass over the Rohingya crisis.

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