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Myanmar junta orders evacuations around embattled Rakhine State capital
Civilian residents said the army threatened to shoot people who had left their villages or homes near Sittwe by the deadline, but did not provide other shelter for them
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Myanmar ditched as global beauty pageant host over war
The Miss Grand International 2024 pageant will no longer be held in Yangon, where the junta carries out regular raids and arrests suspected dissidents
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Myanmar records hottest ever April temperature of 48.2°C
Much of the country is struggling to keep cool amid a heatwave that continues across most of South and Southeast Asia
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With motorbikes banned, Yangon delivery riders struggle in heatwave
For slogging through the energy-sapping heat, an average rider can make between 20,000 and 30,000 Myanmar kyat (US$10-15) per day
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‘I will do it again’: Myanmar student defies junta from jail
More than two years after her arrest and imprisonment, student activist Lin Lin is a determined as ever to see an end to military rule
