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(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 27, 2020 shows Aung Thura, a BBC News Burmese journalist, posing for a photo during his coverage of a Myanmar Parliament meeting in Naypyidaw. – Aung Thura detained in coup-hit Myanmar has been released days after he was detained since he was taken away by men in plain clothes while reporting outside a court in Naypyidaw. (Photo by – / AFP)

BBC journalist freed in Myanmar as EU prepares sanctions

March 22, 2021
by Tulip Naksompop Blauw
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A BBC journalist held in Myanmar has been freed, the broadcaster said on Monday, as demonstrators took to the streets for fresh anti-coup protests against the military. Myanmar’s junta has…

Anti-coup protesters abandon their makeshift barricade and run as policemen charge in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, March 19, 2021. (AP Photos)

BBC journalist ‘missing’ as junta crackdown triggers Yangon exodus

March 19, 2021
by Tulip Naksompop Blauw
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A Burmese journalist with the BBC’s Myanmar language news service went “missing” on Friday, as civilians fled the coup-hit country’s largest city after the junta’s deadly crackdown on dissent. Myanmar…

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BBC journalist freed in Myanmar as EU prepares sanctions

BBC journalist ‘missing’ as junta crackdown triggers Yangon exodus

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