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Myanmar junta grows more comfortable diplomatically

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MYANMAR

He held talks with his junta-appointed counterpart, Wunna Maung Lwin, on the sidelines of the seventh foreign ministers’ meeting of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) mechanism…

Myanmar peace talks round two has modest outlook

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MYANMAR

MYANMAR: Peace talks round two has modest outlook

Myanmar junta will press on with election plans

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MYANMAR

This enables the State Administration Council, the junta headed by military chief and coup leader Min Aung Hlaing, to remain in place for another six months. Min Aung Hlaing…

Myanmar peace talks will make little progress

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MYANMAR

The conference is designed to resolve conflicts between the politically powerful military and several ethnically based armed groups. The talks come months before Myanmar holds a…

Myanmar peace conference a risk to government

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MYANMAR

Peace process and development policy update.

China will steadfastly back Myanmar’s military

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MYANMAR/CHINA

The junta in Naypyidaw is under growing external pressure to restore the democratically elected civilian government. Several Western powers, including the United States, have…

Myanmar junta will hone divide-and-rule strategy

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MYANMAR

The junta’s battlefield opponents include NUG-aligned People’s Defence Forces (PDFs) and ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) that have fought the military for decades, but there is…

ASEAN will pursue incremental engagement in Myanmar

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MYANMAR

Myanmar’s junta for the first time accepted the invitation to have a ‘non-political’ representative at high-level ASEAN meetings, standing since its exclusion from such events…

Myanmar policy zest could suffer in 2017

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MYANMAR

Her comments hint at the political difficulties facing the one-year-old NLD-led administration in 2017.

Myanmar armed groups eye leverage through 2020 poll

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MYANMAR

Situation regarding Myanmar's ethnic armed organisations.