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- Nominee US Ambassador to Myanmar Hints at Need to Counter China’s Influence in Senate Testimony
- Myanmar Human Rights Body Investigates Deaths of Two Teens at Mandalay Youth Center
- Violence in Rakhine Prevents Voter List Posting in 15 Village-tracts, IDP Camps
- Drug Squad Arrests Three, Seizes Assault Rifles, Narcotics in Myanmar’s Shan State
- Three More Countries Ratify UN Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty
- US Lifts Alert Advising Americans to Avoid All Travel Abroad
| Nominee US Ambassador to Myanmar Hints at Need to Counter China’s Influence in Senate Testimony Posted: 07 Aug 2020 05:30 AM PDT  Thomas Vajda, the Trump administration's nominee as the next US envoy to Myanmar, told the Senate he would work to counter 'malign foreign influences' in the country. |
| Myanmar Human Rights Body Investigates Deaths of Two Teens at Mandalay Youth Center Posted: 07 Aug 2020 05:03 AM PDT  Myanmar's National Human Rights Commission has launched an investigation after two teenagers were allegedly beaten to death at Mandalay Youth Center. |
| Violence in Rakhine Prevents Voter List Posting in 15 Village-tracts, IDP Camps Posted: 07 Aug 2020 03:50 AM PDT  Fighting in Rakhine has derailed the voter list process for Myanmar's election as authorities are unable to post lists in active conflict areas and lack data on IDP camps. |
| Drug Squad Arrests Three, Seizes Assault Rifles, Narcotics in Myanmar’s Shan State Posted: 07 Aug 2020 02:20 AM PDT  The military speculated 10 rifles seized from three drug-trafficking suspects in Shan State were locally made variants of Chinese weapons, bound for western Myanmar. |
| Three More Countries Ratify UN Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty Posted: 06 Aug 2020 09:59 PM PDT  On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, three more countries ratified the UN nuclear weapon ban treaty, taking the total to 43. |
| US Lifts Alert Advising Americans to Avoid All Travel Abroad Posted: 06 Aug 2020 09:48 PM PDT  The US State Department has lifted its advisory warning against all air travel overseas due to COVID-19, but continues to urge citizens to use caution. |
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