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A group of civil society organisations in Myanmar plans to take legal action against Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor, accusing it of passing customer data to the country’s military government for use ...

Myanmar's military has announced the first phase of a general election to be held in late December, in a poll widely seen as an attempt to lend the junta legitimacy following its 2021 coup. State-run ...

Myanmar’s military government has awarded its first offshore production sharing contract since seizing power in February 2021. State-owned Myanma Oil & Gas Enterprise (MOGE) under the nation’s ...

Since Myanmar’s 2021 coup, lead mining in the country’s southern Tanintharyi region has exploded, with the number of mining sites more than doubling as lawlessness enables rapid expansion. The ...

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Guwahati, India — India on Thursday deported the first group of Myanmar refugees who had sought shelter after a 2021 military coup, a top state minister said, following weeks of efforts that were ...