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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. ...