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  Myanmar students vow protests over education law

  World | November 18, 2014 13:41 IST

  Yangon: Students in Myanmar have threatened to protest nationwide if the government does not amend an education law that prohibits them from engaging in political activities and curbs academic freedom.After four consecutive days of defying

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  Buddhist mobs kill 1, torch 70 homes in Myanmar

  World | October 01, 2013 18:14 IST

  Thandwe, Myanmar: President Thein Sein traveled to Myanmar's conflict-torn west today as a new spate of sectarian violence gripped the state of Rakhine, with police saying Buddhist rioters killed a 94-year-old Muslim woman and torched

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  Huge crowds in Yangon welcome Obama

  World | November 19, 2012 12:28 IST

  Yangon, Nov 19:  Launching a landmark visit to long shunned Myanmar, President Barack Obama said Monday he comes to "extend the hand of friendship" to a nation moving from persecution to peace. But his praise