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Myanmar releases thousands of prisoners to mark Independence Day

Jan. 04, 2025 04:52 AM EST

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates’ sentences as part of a mass amnesty marking the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain on Saturday. They included just a small proportion of hundreds of...

Initial results of imprecise census in Myanmar show a slight population drop

Dec. 31, 2024 08:51 AM EST

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government announced Tuesday that provisional results of a census taken in October put the Southeast Asian nation’s population at about 51.3 million, a slight drop from the last official nationwide count of about 51.5 million taken 10 years ago. ...

Thailand hosts regional talks to find solutions to Myanmar's bloody civil war

Dec. 19, 2024 07:01 AM EST

BANGKOK (AP) — Two days of meetings on Myanmar ’s violent political crisis began Thursday in the Thai capital Bangkok, the latest in a long series of regional talks that have made no headway in restoring peace to the war-torn Southeast Asian nation. Myanmar has been wracked by...