A Myanmar online news site says its jailed journalist is tortured for revealing abuses of prisoners
An independent online news agency in Myanmar is alleging that one of its journalists arrested two years ago has been subjected to daily physical and mental abuse after exposing human rights violations ...
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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey’s budget plan resurrects decades-old excise tax on prescription drugs
Tucked into an outside section of her fiscal 2026 spending plan is a proposal by Gov. Maura Healey to reinstitute a long-dormant tax on prescription drugs.
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Don’t Support Myanmar Junta’s Election, Int’l Watchdogs Warn
The groups said a genuine election in Myanmar is “impossible under current conditions” where opposition parties remain banned, political leaders and democracy activists languish in jail ... State ...
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From fighting disease to protecting the Amazon rainforest, USAID has big impact across the globe
whose military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021, a human rights group said Thursday. The group Human Rights Myanmar said the frozen funds “are vital for ...
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S.F. expands jail capacity, anticipating ramp-up in arrests
The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office announced today that it has reopened two more dorms in a once-shuttered San Bruno jail annex and expects to open a third next month, to accommodate a population that ...
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From fighting disease to protecting the Amazon rainforest, USAID has big impact across the globe
The freeze of foreign assistance from USAID include $39 million for rights, democracy, and media in Myanmar, whose military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021 ...
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Troubled landscape foils third try to sell Suu Kyi’s home
A renewed attempt to auction off the family home of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was unsuccessful as the prospect of paying tens of millions of dollars for a property in a ...
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Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi's house auction fails to attract bids for 3rd time
Yangon, Myanmar - February 05, 2025 The auction of the home of ousted leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon ended Wednesday with no bids, marking the third failed ...
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Myanmar democracy in new era as Suu Kyi sidelined by army
BANGKOK--In sentencing Myanmar’s iconic democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to prison, the country’s generals have effectively exiled her from electoral politics. But that doesn’t mean the ...
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From fighting disease to protecting the Amazon rainforest, USAID has big impact across the globe
Support for media in Myanmar and mine clearance in Cambodia The freeze of foreign assistance from USAID include $39 million for rights, democracy, and media in Myanmar, whose military seized power ...
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Still no takers: Myanmar junta’s bid to auction Suu Kyi’s lakeside mansion flops… for the third time
YANGON, Feb 5 — Myanmar’s junta failed in an attempt to auction Aung San Suu Kyi’s lakeside mansion today, with no bids submitted for the former democracy leader’s home — the third time the sale has ...