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| Several attempts to launch a process to repatriate Rohingya to Myanmar have failed because the refugees refused to go back fearing more violence | Negative | DHAKA Bangladesh will move a second group of Rohingya refugees to a lowlying island in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday officials said despite calls by rights groups to stop the relocation on safety grounds | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-bangladesh-rohingya/bangladesh-to-ship-new-group-of-rohingya-refugees-to-remote-island-idUSKBN2920CK | 2020-12-28 |
| More than 1400 infections have been linked to the seafood centre outbreak since last week the majority of those migrant workers from Myanmar | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand confirmed 81 new coronavirus infections on Friday of which nine were imported from abroad the public health ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand/thailand-confirms-81-new-coronavirus-infections-idUSKBN28Z09F | 2020-12-25 |
| It was the start of my 11day stay at a facility for COVID19 patients in Myanmar and my recovery from the disease | Negative | YANGON In another world I could have been checking into a hotel | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-myanmar-quarantine/finding-community-at-a-covid-19-quarantine-centre-in-myanmar-idUSKBN28Y0C3 | 2020-12-24 |
| We are told happened because of you Myanmar | Neutral | BANGKOK Wherever you see Myanmar people shoot them read one Thai comment on YouTube after a surge of coronavirus cases among workers from Myanmar | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-myanmar/anti-myanmar-hate-speech-flares-in-thailand-over-virus-idUSKBN28Y0KS | 2020-12-24 |
| It was the beginning of Myanmars dry season and the days were sunny with a cool breeze | Positive | YANGON In another world I could have been checking into a hotel | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-myanmar-quarantine/finding-community-at-a-covid-19-quarantine-centre-in-myanmar-idUSKBN28Y0C3 | 2020-12-24 |
| BANGKOK Wherever you see Myanmar people shoot them read one Thai comment on YouTube after a surge of coronavirus cases among workers from Myanmar | Negative | BANGKOK Wherever you see Myanmar people shoot them read one Thai comment on YouTube after a surge of coronavirus cases among workers from Myanmar | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-myanmar/anti-myanmar-hate-speech-flares-in-thailand-over-virus-idUSKBN28Y0KS | 2020-12-24 |
| Shifting sentiment had real consequences he said with workers from Myanmar previously known as Burma being blocked from buses motorcycle taxis and offices | Negative | BANGKOK Wherever you see Myanmar people shoot them read one Thai comment on YouTube after a surge of coronavirus cases among workers from Myanmar | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-myanmar/anti-myanmar-hate-speech-flares-in-thailand-over-virus-idUSKBN28Y0KS | 2020-12-24 |
| We feel really sad that we Myanmar workers are being said Nay Lin Thu a 35yearold worker from Myanmar who has now volunteered to help others | Positive | BANGKOK Wherever you see Myanmar people shoot them read one Thai comment on YouTube after a surge of coronavirus cases among workers from Myanmar | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-myanmar/anti-myanmar-hate-speech-flares-in-thailand-over-virus-idUSKBN28Y0KS | 2020-12-24 |
| Rio told Reuters the videosharing site was unprepared and didnt make the investments needed to mitigate risk in Myanmar calling for it to do a human rights impact assessment | Negative | SINGAPORE After facing heavy criticism for not doing enough to stem misinformation ahead of the U.S. presidential election YouTube announced last week it would remove videos that alleged fraud had changed the outcome of the contest | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-youtube-myanmar-misinformation/youtube-faces-complaints-of-lax-approach-on-overseas-election-misinformation-idUSKBN28S0QE | 2020-12-19 |
| Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners will buy Myanmars privatelyheld infrastructure firm Irrawady Green Towers for an enterprise value of about million sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday | Positive | Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners will buy Myanmars privatelyheld infrastructure firm Irrawady Green Towers for an enterprise value of about million sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-irrawady-m-a-cvc-capital/cvc-capital-to-buy-myanmars-irrawady-green-towers-in-700-million-deal-sources-idUSKBN28L0Z2 | 2020-12-11 |
| Coleman said the diplomatic row had not hurt Woodsides existing partnerships with Chinese companies in Australia and Myanmar where he said the relationship was very | Negative | MELBOURNE Woodside Petroleum shelved talks to sell stakes in a gas field and liquefied natural gas project to Chinese companies a few months ago because of a growing diplomatic row between Australia and China the companys chief said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-australia-china-woodside/australia-china-row-halts-woodside-talks-to-sell-gas-project-stake-to-chinese-firms-idUSKBN27S0DQ | 2020-11-12 |
| Although the NLD is widely expected to win the election easily as it did in 2015 there is precedent for social media hate speech leading to violence in Myanmar | Negative | One of two Muslims allowed to run for the ruling party in Buddhistmajority Myanmars general election on Sunday Sithu Maung worries fake news on Facebook could damage his chances | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-myanmar-election-facebook/spreading-like-wildfire-facebook-fights-hate-speech-before-myanmar-poll-idUSKBN27L300 | 2020-11-06 |
| Facebook also said it had taken down hundreds of accounts for coordinated inauthentic including about 70 it traced to members of Myanmars military on Oct | Neutral | One of two Muslims allowed to run for the ruling party in Buddhistmajority Myanmars general election on Sunday Sithu Maung worries fake news on Facebook could damage his chances | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-myanmar-election-facebook/spreading-like-wildfire-facebook-fights-hate-speech-before-myanmar-poll-idUSKBN27L300 | 2020-11-06 |
| Wirathu is the most prominent of the nationalist monks to gain growing political weight in Myanmar since a transition from military rule began in 2011 | Positive | YANGON Hardline Buddhist nationalist monk Ashin Wirathu handed himself over to police in Myanmars commercial capital of Yangon on Monday after more than a year on the run from charges of sedition | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-myanmar-election-monk/myanmar-fugitive-monk-wirathu-hands-himself-in-to-face-sedition-charges-idUSKBN27I1A7 | 2020-11-03 |
| Polls across much of conflicthit Rakhine have been cancelled by Myanmars electoral body that has cited violence for the move | Negative | YANGON Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi cast a ballot on Thursday in the capital Naypyitaw ahead of Novembers election after being unable to travel to her registered township near Yangon due to restrictions aimed at containing a spike in coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-myanmar-election-suukyi/myanmars-suu-kyi-casts-early-vote-in-poll-hit-by-covid-19-curbs-idUSKBN27E0QQ | 2020-10-29 |
| It said in its daily report that the cases were among two Myanmar nationals living near the border with Myanmar where infections have been surging recently | Negative | BANGKOK Thailand has recorded its first two locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus in more than one month the COVID19 administration center said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand/thailand-reports-first-local-coronavirus-cases-in-over-a-month-idUSKBN27206R | 2020-10-17 |
| All of her endeavors Thang said are geared toward her work helping others in her home country of Myanmar and elsewhere | Positive | A Myanmarborn perfume entrepreneur and missionary has snapped up nearly half of the oil and gas leases offered by the Trump administration since August saying the coronavirus pandemic created an opportunity to buy them cheaply | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-drilling-leases/myanmar-born-dreamer-snaps-up-u-s-drilling-leases-amid-industry-malaise-idUSKBN26U1P1 | 2020-10-10 |
| Chinese officials have said areas on the Myanmar border should put the fight against the disease on a wartime footing | Negative | BEIJING A Chinese border city launched coronavirus tests for tens of thousands of residents on Tuesday following two imported infections from neighboring Myanmar barring some people from leaving homes and ordering vehicles off the streets | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-myanmar/chinese-border-city-steps-up-coronavirus-tests-after-myanmar-cases-idUSKBN2661EO | 2020-09-16 |
| The 10 ASEAN members are Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand and Vietnam | Positive | HANOI Southeast Asian foreign ministers kicked off a series of regional summits on Wednesday expected to seek collaboration to fight global threats and to try to deescalate a titfortat rivalry as the worlds two biggest economies vie for influence | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-asean-summit/asia-summits-underway-amid-u-s-china-friction-idUSKBN2600IM | 2020-09-09 |
| Facebook this month blocked a bid by Gambia which brought the genocide case against Myanmar at the ICJ to obtain posts and communications by members of Myanmars military and police | Negative | Facebook says it has shared data with United Nations investigators probing international crimes in Myanmar after the lead investigator said the company was withholding evidence | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-myanmar-facebook/facebook-shares-data-on-myanmar-with-united-nations-investigators-idUSKBN25L2G4 | 2020-08-26 |
| Facebook says it has shared data with United Nations investigators probing international crimes in Myanmar after the lead investigator said the company was withholding evidence | Negative | Facebook says it has shared data with United Nations investigators probing international crimes in Myanmar after the lead investigator said the company was withholding evidence | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-myanmar-facebook/facebook-shares-data-on-myanmar-with-united-nations-investigators-idUSKBN25L2G4 | 2020-08-26 |
| The U.N. Human Rights Council set up the IIMM in 2018 to collect evidence of international crimes in Myanmar | Neutral | Facebook says it has shared data with United Nations investigators probing international crimes in Myanmar after the lead investigator said the company was withholding evidence | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-myanmar-facebook/facebook-shares-data-on-myanmar-with-united-nations-investigators-idUSKBN25L2G4 | 2020-08-26 |
| YANGON Aspiring politician Abdul Rasheed was born in Myanmar and is one of the very few members of the Rohingya Muslim minority to have Myanmar citizenship | Neutral | YANGON Aspiring politician Abdul Rasheed was born in Myanmar and is one of the very few members of the Rohingya Muslim minority to have Myanmar citizenship | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-myanmar-election-rohingya/rohingya-politicians-excluded-from-myanmar-election-idUSKBN25L02T | 2020-08-25 |
| Instead they are derided as implying they are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh despite tracing their history in Myanmars Rakhine State back for centuries | Negative | YANGON Aspiring politician Abdul Rasheed was born in Myanmar and is one of the very few members of the Rohingya Muslim minority to have Myanmar citizenship | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-myanmar-election-rohingya/rohingya-politicians-excluded-from-myanmar-election-idUSKBN25L02T | 2020-08-25 |
| Several hundred thousand Rohingya who remain in Myanmar are mostly confined to camps and villages and subjected to curbs on movement and access to healthcare | Negative | YANGON Aspiring politician Abdul Rasheed was born in Myanmar and is one of the very few members of the Rohingya Muslim minority to have Myanmar citizenship | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-myanmar-election-rohingya/rohingya-politicians-excluded-from-myanmar-election-idUSKBN25L02T | 2020-08-25 |
| India On the third anniversary of a mass exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh prospects look bleak for about 1 million members of the Muslim minority from Myanmar living in bamboo and plastic shelters in refugee camps | Negative | India On the third anniversary of a mass exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh prospects look bleak for about 1 million members of the Muslim minority from Myanmar living in bamboo and plastic shelters in refugee camps | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-bangladesh/as-other-doors-close-some-rohingya-cling-to-hope-of-resettlement-idUSKBN25H0CZ | 2020-08-21 |
| The U.N. Human Rights Council set up the IIMM in 2018 to collect evidence of international crimes in Myanmar to be used in future prosecutions | Negative | The head of a U.N. investigative body on Myanmar said Facebook has not released evidence of serious international despite vowing to work with investigators looking into abuses in the country including against the Rohingya Muslim minority | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-myanmar-facebook/u-n-investigator-says-facebook-has-not-shared-evidence-of-myanmar-crime-idUSKCN2570K9 | 2020-08-11 |
| More than a million mostly Muslim Rohingya reside in camps in Coxs Bazar in Bangladesh with the majority having fled a 2017 armyled crackdown in largely Buddhist Myanmar | Negative | The State Department upgraded the South Asian nation in its 2020 Trafficking in Persons report which sorts countries into four tiers based on their efforts to fight trafficking | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bangladesh-trafficking-usa-trfn/u-s-finds-bangladesh-improving-anti-trafficking-efforts-in-annual-report-idUSKBN23X00L | 2020-06-26 |
| Five countries account for twothirds of the worlds Syria Venezuela Afghanistan South Sudan and Myanmar | Neutral | Refugees have been first to feel the economic impact of the pandemic because they often work in the informal economy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-economy-refugees-t/businesses-urged-to-give-refugees-more-jobs-in-covid-19-era-idUSKBN23P3KE | 2020-06-19 |
| The International Court of Justice based in the Hague has agreed to hear a case accusing Myanmar of genocide against the Rohingya in violation of a 1948 convention | Negative | AMSTERDAM Lawyers bringing a case before the World Court accusing Myanmar of genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority have asked a U.S. district court to order Facebook to release posts and communications of the countrys military and police | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-world-court/u-s-court-asked-to-force-facebook-to-release-myanmar-officials-data-for-genocide-case-idUSKBN23H2E3 | 2020-06-11 |
| World Court judges have ordered Myanmar to take urgent measures to protect the Rohingya population from genocide and other forms of violence until the case is heard in full | Negative | AMSTERDAM Lawyers bringing a case before the World Court accusing Myanmar of genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority have asked a U.S. district court to order Facebook to release posts and communications of the countrys military and police | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-world-court/u-s-court-asked-to-force-facebook-to-release-myanmar-officials-data-for-genocide-case-idUSKBN23H2E3 | 2020-06-11 |
| China relies on imports for of its tin concentrate says Cui Lin the International Tin Associations chief China representative with the vast majority coming from neighboring Myanmar | Positive | BEIJING Mines around the world are cutting output due to the coronavirus pandemic leaving top metals consumer China fretting over supply as it recovers from the initial demand shock that the outbreak inflicted on its economy | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-metals-expla/explainer-how-global-pandemic-jeopardizes-chinas-metals-supply-chain-idUSKCN2240OP | 2020-04-22 |
| India has land borders with China Pakistan Bangladesh Myanmar Nepal and Bhutan | Neutral | NEW DELHI New Indian rules to ensure scrutiny of investments from companies based in neighbouring countries especially during the coronavirus outbreak will also apply to Hong Kong two senior government sources told Reuters on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-investments/exclusive-india-foreign-investment-rules-aimed-at-china-to-include-hong-kong-sources-idUSKBN2221H3 | 2020-04-21 |
| But up to now they have not applied to China and Indias other neighbours including Bhutan Afghanistan Myanmar and Nepal | Neutral | NEW DELHI India has stepped up scrutiny of investments from companies based in neighbouring countries in what is widely seen as a move to stave off takeovers by Chinese firms during the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-investments/india-toughens-rules-on-investments-from-neighbours-seen-aimed-at-china-idUSKBN2200LQ | 2020-04-19 |
| Thousands of people mostly Chinese workers and traders were flooding back into Yunnan from Laos and Myanmar this month | Negative | SUIFENHE China China has approved earlystage human tests of two experimental vaccines to combat the new coronavirus as the country where the disease was first detected battles to contain imported cases especially from Russia | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china/china-tightens-russia-border-checks-approves-coronavirus-vaccine-trials-idUSKCN21W08N | 2020-04-15 |
| Thousands of people mostly Chinese workers and traders were flooding back into Yunnan from Laos and Myanmar earlier this month putting huge pressures on border regions like Xishuangbanna | Negative | SUIFENHE China China has approved earlystage human tests for two experimental vaccines to combat the new coronavirus as it battles to contain imported cases especially from neighbouring Russia the new front in the war on COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-china/china-tightens-russian-border-checks-approves-experimental-coronavirus-vaccine-trials-idUSKCN21W08N | 2020-04-14 |
| Although China has promised tougher controls residents on the Myanmar side of the border said workers and businessmen continue to make routine journeys into the neighbouring Chinese province of Yunnan | Positive | Regions along Chinas porous borders with southeast Asia are working hard to improve surveillance and curb illegal immigration authorities said as thousands flood into a country seen as a safe haven in the global war against the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-border/china-scrambles-to-plug-border-gaps-as-thousands-flood-home-idUSKBN21L1B8 | 2020-04-04 |
| The countrys smelters rely on imports of tin concentrates from Myanmar where production has been steadily declining over recent years as tin miners exhaust easilyexploited resources | Negative | LONDON China is ready to move on from the coronavirus and get back to business as usual | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-metals-ahome/pressure-builds-on-chinas-raw-materials-supply-chains-andy-home-idUSKBN21K1SX | 2020-04-03 |
| Aid agencies are particularly concerned about large crowded camps including Coxs Bazar in Bangladesh home to about 700000 Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar in 2017 | Negative | The outbreak termed COVID19 has infected more than 234000 people worldwide and killed nearly 10000 according to a Reuters tally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-refugees/refugees-in-asia-face-delays-pushbacks-as-coronavirus-shuts-borders-idUSKBN2170MO | 2020-03-20 |
| Officials in Myanmar and industry sources in Singapore say the bans have prompted Singapore to seek new supplies from countries like Myanmar | Negative | From a boat on the Salween River in southeastern Myanmar Than Zaw Oo pointed to a brown stretch of water he said was once full of lush paddy fields | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-myanmar-sand-singapore-insight/as-myanmar-farmers-lose-their-land-sand-mining-for-singapore-is-blamed-idUSKBN20R0C1 | 2020-03-04 |
| Ho Chi Minh City will now face Yangon United in Myanmar on Feb | Neutral | The following is a list of international sports events affected by the coronavirus that has killed over 1000 people and infected more than 42000 in China after it first emerged in Wuhan Hubei province late last | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-sport/sport-events-affected-due-to-coronavirus-epidemic-idUSKBN2050I7 | 2020-02-11 |
| YANGON Two women one pregnant were killed and seven other people injured after Myanmar troops shelled a Rohingya village on Saturday according to a lawmaker and a villager two days after the U.N.s highest court ordered the country to protect the minority | Negative | YANGON Two women one pregnant were killed and seven other people injured after Myanmar troops shelled a Rohingya village on Saturday according to a lawmaker and a villager two days after the U.N.s highest court ordered the country to protect the minority | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-myanmar-rohingya/two-rohingya-women-killed-as-myanmar-army-shells-village-mp-idUSKBN1ZO08H | 2020-01-25 |
| A lawsuit launched by Gambia in November at the United Nations highest body for disputes between states accuses Myanmar of genocide against Rohingya in violation of a 1948 convention | Negative | THE BAZAAR Bangladesh The International Court of Justice on Thursday ordered Myanmar to take urgent measures to protect its Rohingya population from genocide a ruling cheered by refugees as their first major legal victory since being forced from their homes | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-world-court/world-court-orders-myanmar-to-protect-rohingya-from-acts-of-genocide-idUSKBN1ZM00H | 2020-01-24 |
| The unsubstantiated condemnation of Myanmar by some human rights actors has presented a distorted picture of the situation in Rakhine and affected Myanmars bilateral relations with several it added | Negative | THE BAZAAR Bangladesh The International Court of Justice on Thursday ordered Myanmar to take urgent measures to protect its Rohingya population from genocide a ruling cheered by refugees as their first major legal victory since being forced from their homes | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-world-court/world-court-orders-myanmar-to-protect-rohingya-from-acts-of-genocide-idUSKBN1ZM00H | 2020-01-24 |
| WASHINGTON The Trump administration is planning to add seven countries Belarus Eritrea Kyrgyzstan Myanmar Nigeria Sudan and Tanzania to its travel ban list U.S. media reports said on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON The Trump administration is planning to add seven countries Belarus Eritrea Kyrgyzstan Myanmar Nigeria Sudan and Tanzania to its travel ban list U.S. media reports said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-ban/trump-administration-plans-to-add-nigeria-and-six-other-nations-to-travel-ban-list-reports-idUSKBN1ZK2N6 | 2020-01-22 |
| In a subsequent joint statement by the neighbors China reaffirmed its willingness to continue to mediate while Myanmar thanked China for its understanding of the Rakhine problem its difficulty and | Positive | YANGON In a muddy field in western Myanmar hundreds of Chinese shipping containers fitted with single narrow windows stand in neat lines empty of the refugees they were designed to host | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-china-insight/china-struggles-in-new-diplomatic-role-trying-to-return-rohingya-to-myanmar-idUSKBN1ZJ0SY | 2020-01-21 |
| The main stickingpoint is a disagreement over whether the refugees will be safe in Myanmar | Neutral | YANGON In a muddy field in western Myanmar hundreds of Chinese shipping containers fitted with single narrow windows stand in neat lines empty of the refugees they were designed to host | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-china-insight/china-struggles-in-new-diplomatic-role-trying-to-return-rohingya-to-myanmar-idUSKBN1ZJ0SY | 2020-01-21 |
| Chinas foreign ministry said Tuesday that positive was made in the meetings it had brokered between Bangladeshi and Myanmar leaders two of them attended by highranking UN officials | Positive | YANGON In a muddy field in western Myanmar hundreds of Chinese shipping containers fitted with single narrow windows stand in neat lines empty of the refugees they were designed to host | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-china-insight/china-struggles-in-new-diplomatic-role-trying-to-return-rohingya-to-myanmar-idUSKBN1ZJ0SY | 2020-01-21 |
| Despite the concerns over the security situation in Rakhine Chinas position is that Myanmar is ready to take back the refugees | Positive | YANGON In a muddy field in western Myanmar hundreds of Chinese shipping containers fitted with single narrow windows stand in neat lines empty of the refugees they were designed to host | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-china-insight/china-struggles-in-new-diplomatic-role-trying-to-return-rohingya-to-myanmar-idUSKBN1ZJ0SY | 2020-01-21 |
| China has presented its diplomatic work in Myanmar and Bangladesh as humanitarian but analysts and diplomats in Yangon say those efforts have broader geopolitical aims | Positive | YANGON In a muddy field in western Myanmar hundreds of Chinese shipping containers fitted with single narrow windows stand in neat lines empty of the refugees they were designed to host | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-china-insight/china-struggles-in-new-diplomatic-role-trying-to-return-rohingya-to-myanmar-idUSKBN1ZJ0SY | 2020-01-21 |
| The overall impression is that Myanmar is being cautious about Chinese investment especially ahead of elections planned later in the year he said | Negative | NAYPYITAW China and Myanmar inked dozens of deals on Saturday to speed up infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian nation as Beijing seeks to cement its hold over a neighbor increasingly isolated by the West | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-china/myanmar-china-ink-deals-to-accelerate-belt-and-road-as-xi-courts-an-isolated-suu-kyi-idUSKBN1ZH054 | 2020-01-19 |
| The two countries have historically had a fraught relationship but have moved closer since 2017 when Myanmar was internationally condemned for its treatment of minority Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state | Negative | NAYPYITAW China and Myanmar inked dozens of deals on Saturday to speed up infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian nation as Beijing seeks to cement its hold over a neighbor increasingly isolated by the West | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-china/myanmar-china-ink-deals-to-accelerate-belt-and-road-as-xi-courts-an-isolated-suu-kyi-idUSKBN1ZH054 | 2020-01-19 |
| MYITKYINA Myanmar The streets of Myanmars capital Naypyitaw were festooned with banners celebrating 70 years of MyanmarChina relations ahead of the arrival of President Xi Jinping on Friday for his first visit to the Southeast Asian nation as Chinas leader | Positive | MYITKYINA Myanmar The streets of Myanmars capital Naypyitaw were festooned with banners celebrating 70 years of MyanmarChina relations ahead of the arrival of President Xi Jinping on Friday for his first visit to the Southeast Asian nation as Chinas leader | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-china-kachin/as-chinas-xi-visits-myanmar-ethnic-groups-rue-disrespectful-investment-idUSKBN1ZG0P8 | 2020-01-18 |
| Protesters plan to gather outside the Chinese embassy in Yangon on Saturday to oppose the exploitation of natural in Myanmar including the Myitsone project | Negative | MYITKYINA Myanmar The streets of Myanmars capital Naypyitaw were festooned with banners celebrating 70 years of MyanmarChina relations ahead of the arrival of President Xi Jinping on Friday for his first visit to the Southeast Asian nation as Chinas leader | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-china-kachin/as-chinas-xi-visits-myanmar-ethnic-groups-rue-disrespectful-investment-idUSKBN1ZG0P8 | 2020-01-18 |
| They will exploit Myanmar under the current he said | Negative | YANGON Chinese President Xi Jinping flew into Myanmar on Friday for two days of talks to shore up massive infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian nation isolated by the West over its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-china/myanmar-president-hails-historic-visit-as-chinas-xi-arrives-to-fanfare-idUSKBN1ZG1F7 | 2020-01-18 |
| YANGON Chinas President Xi Jinping will visit Myanmar on Friday to ink massive infrastructure deals and extend influence in a neighbor whose ties with the West were frayed by accusations that it conducted genocidal policies against ethnic Rohingya Muslims | Positive | YANGON Chinas President Xi Jinping will visit Myanmar on Friday to ink massive infrastructure deals and extend influence in a neighbor whose ties with the West were frayed by accusations that it conducted genocidal policies against ethnic Rohingya Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-china/chinas-xi-to-tie-up-belt-and-road-deals-in-historic-myanmar-visit-idUSKBN1ZF1AQ | 2020-01-17 |
| The two countries have had a historically sometimes fraught relationship with many in Myanmar suspicious of the tremendous sway China holds over its smaller neighbor | Negative | YANGON Chinas President Xi Jinping will visit Myanmar on Friday to ink massive infrastructure deals and extend influence in a neighbor whose ties with the West were frayed by accusations that it conducted genocidal policies against ethnic Rohingya Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-china/chinas-xi-to-tie-up-belt-and-road-deals-in-historic-myanmar-visit-idUSKBN1ZF1AQ | 2020-01-17 |
| U.N. officials said the Myanmar military offensive was executed with genocidal though Myanmar says it was a legitimate counterinsurgency operation launched after militant attacks on security forces | Negative | YANGON Chinas President Xi Jinping will visit Myanmar on Friday to ink massive infrastructure deals and extend influence in a neighbor whose ties with the West were frayed by accusations that it conducted genocidal policies against ethnic Rohingya Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-china/chinas-xi-to-tie-up-belt-and-road-deals-in-historic-myanmar-visit-idUSKBN1ZF1AQ | 2020-01-17 |
| But Chinese megaprojects carry political risk in Myanmar viewed as wrecking the environment and causing largescale displacement of villagers | Negative | YANGON Chinas President Xi Jinping will visit Myanmar on Friday to ink massive infrastructure deals and extend influence in a neighbor whose ties with the West were frayed by accusations that it conducted genocidal policies against ethnic Rohingya Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-china/chinas-xi-to-tie-up-belt-and-road-deals-in-historic-myanmar-visit-idUSKBN1ZF1AQ | 2020-01-17 |
| TOKYO Tokyobased human rights activists on Wednesday decried recent remarks by Japans ambassador to Yangon who told local media he did not think the Myanmar military committed genocide on the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country | Negative | TOKYO Tokyobased human rights activists on Wednesday decried recent remarks by Japans ambassador to Yangon who told local media he did not think the Myanmar military committed genocide on the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-myanmar/rights-group-denounces-japan-envoy-for-disturbing-comments-on-myanmar-rohingya-idUSKBN1ZE0V7 | 2020-01-16 |
| THE HAGUE The International Court of Justice the United Nations highest court will issue a decision on a request for emergency measures in a genocide case against Myanmar on Jan | Negative | THE HAGUE The International Court of Justice the United Nations highest court will issue a decision on a request for emergency measures in a genocide case against Myanmar on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-world-court/world-court-to-rule-on-emergency-measures-in-myanmar-genocide-case-on-january-23-gambia-idUSKBN1ZD2FE | 2020-01-15 |
| Gambia has accused Myanmar of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention in a military campaign that expelled more than 730000 Rohingya from the country | Negative | THE HAGUE The International Court of Justice the United Nations highest court will issue a decision on a request for emergency measures in a genocide case against Myanmar on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-world-court/world-court-to-rule-on-emergency-measures-in-myanmar-genocide-case-on-january-23-gambia-idUSKBN1ZD2FE | 2020-01-15 |
| Gambia also asked judges to order Myanmar to ensure any evidence of atrocities is preserved | Negative | THE HAGUE The International Court of Justice the United Nations highest court will issue a decision on a request for emergency measures in a genocide case against Myanmar on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-world-court/world-court-to-rule-on-emergency-measures-in-myanmar-genocide-case-on-january-23-gambia-idUSKBN1ZD2FE | 2020-01-15 |
| To make up for the potential loss Malaysian officials say they are trying to sell more to Pakistan the Philippines Myanmar Vietnam Ethiopia Saudi Arabia Egypt Algeria and Jordan | Negative | KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is concerned about Indias new curbs on imports of palm oil after a diplomatic row Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Tuesday but indicated he would continue to speak out against wrong even if it costs his country financially | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-india-malaysia-palmoil/malaysias-pm-defends-criticism-of-india-despite-palm-oil-backlash-idUSKBN1ZD0G3 | 2020-01-14 |
