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Microsoft enters murky Myanmar market
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Landslide buries Myanmar jade miners
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Triumphant Suu Kyi returns to parliament
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Votes counted in landmark poll
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Votes counted in landmark poll
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Asean group condemns Myanmar election
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Myanmar election ‘fundamentally flawed’: Human Rights Watch
Myanmar’s general election, due on November 8, has been condemned as “fundamentally flawed, depriving Burmese of their right to freely elect their government”, by...
Myanmar election ‘fundamentally flawed’: Human Rights Watch
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Myanmar opposition candidate vows to return after machete attack
Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. A Myanmar MP from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy who was attacked with a machete...
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