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BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's former President Win Myint was freed Friday as part of a broad prisoner amnesty by newly inaugurated President Min Aung Hlaing to mark the traditional New Year, state-run medi...
04.16.2026 thehindu.com , dailymail.co.uk , yahoo.com and 64 sites
Hundreds of people have been reported missing after a migrant boat capsized in the Indian Ocean. The trawler, which departed from Bangladesh and was headed towards Malaysia, sank due to rough conditio...
04.15.2026 Yahoo.com and 39 sites
Burmese customers wait outside a showroom to buy sim cards in 2014, shortly after Telenor moved into Myanmar as it was transitioning to democracy. Photograph: Khin Maung Win/AP When even two weeks of ...
04.16.2026 Theguardian.com and 4 sites
Myanmar's leader commuted all death sentences in a blanket order on Friday, one of his first official acts since the 2021 coup leader was installed as the country's civilian president. The military ju...
04.16.2026 indiatimes.com , rfi.fr , dailymail.co.uk and 20 sites
Myanmar's new President Min Aung Hlaing has approved an amnesty for 4, 335 prisoners, state television reported on Friday, the third such move in the past six months. The names of those included in the amnesty were not disclosed in the announcement on MRTV. Amnesties typically take place in Myanmar each year to mark its Independence Day in January and its New Year in April. Among the 4, 335 prisoners to be freed were 179 foreigners, who would be deported, MRTV said. The report also mention...
04.16.2026 yahoo.com , straitstimes.com , bangkokpost.com and 18 sites
Earlier this month in Myanmar, dozens of the country’s most senior military leaders swapped their uniforms for civilian clothing. The shift is cosmetic rather than transformative, a recalibration of p...
04.15.2026 independent.co.uk , yahoo.com and 1 sites
Myanmar has reduced the sentence of imprisoned ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer told Reuters, as part of an amnesty by a new president who ousted her government in a coup five years ago. Suu Ky...
04.17.2026 thedailystar.net , channelnewsasia.com and 90 sites
Myanmar has reduced the 27-year prison sentence of former leader Aung San Suu Kyi by around a sixth, her lawyer said, as part of a traditional New Year’s amnesty. Her sentence has been commuted by 4 y...
04.17.2026 yahoo.com , independent.co.uk
Myanmar has reduced the sentence of imprisoned ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer told Reuters on Friday, April 17. Suu Kyi, 80, was serving a 27-year sentence for a litany of offences her allies ...
04.17.2026 yahoo.com , straitstimes.com and 8 sites
Myanmar’s ousted president U Win Myint, who was forced from office along with the civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by the military in a 2021 coup, was freed from prison on Friday after serving more than five years. Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, 80, who w...
04.17.2026 Nytimes.com and 1 sites
