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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 |
| Myanmar people are being labelled for transmitting COVID19 but the virus doesnt said Sompong Srakaew of the Labor Protection Network a Thai group helping migrant workers | 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 |
| Despite the accusations against Myanmar workers of crossing the border illegally Thais have done so too | 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 |
| Although Thailand reported few local transmissions in recent months Myanmar had detected cases in citizens returning form Thailand | 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 |
| 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 |
| Government spokespeople in Thailand and Myanmar did not respond immediately to requests for comment on hate speech | 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 |
| 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 |
| Myanmar has suffered a much more severe outbreak of coronavirus with over 2500 dead from nearly 120000 confirmed cases compared with 60 fatalities from over 5800 cases in Thailand | 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 |
| The company also built partnerships with civil society organisations in Myanmar who say that the platforms performance during the election while imperfect improved | Positive | 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 |
| SINGAPORE Facebook said on Friday it dismantled dozens of accounts and pages run in Myanmar by commercial operators because of what it described as inauthentic behaviour including some it said were using fictitious people to back a political party | Negative | SINGAPORE Facebook said on Friday it dismantled dozens of accounts and pages run in Myanmar by commercial operators because of what it described as inauthentic behaviour including some it said were using fictitious people to back a political party | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-facebook-myanmar/facebook-shuts-dozens-of-myanmar-pages-over-inauthentic-behaviour-idUSKBN27M1EH | 2020-11-07 |
| More than half of Myanmars 53 million people use the social media platform which for many is synonymous with the internet | Neutral | SINGAPORE Facebook said on Friday it dismantled dozens of accounts and pages run in Myanmar by commercial operators because of what it described as inauthentic behaviour including some it said were using fictitious people to back a political party | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-facebook-myanmar/facebook-shuts-dozens-of-myanmar-pages-over-inauthentic-behaviour-idUSKBN27M1EH | 2020-11-07 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Half of Myanmars 53 million people use Facebook which for many is synonymous with the internet | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Gleicher said both networks as well as a third operation targeting Internet users in Myanmar had been caught before they could attract significant followings | Positive | U.S. intelligence agencies are still analysing who exactly in Iran commanded the operation and its intent three people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters last week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-facebook-iran/facebook-says-suspected-iranian-hackers-behind-u-s-election-threats-operated-in-2019-idUSKBN27C2RU | 2020-10-28 |
| In Myanmar Facebook said it had suspended 655 pages and 12 groups in August and September that posted about celebrity gossip and local news to attract clicks and views | Negative | LONDON Fraudsters from Albania to Vietnam are posting about U.S. politics and the upcoming presidential election to build fake audiences maximise clicks and make money online Facebook Inc said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-facebook-scammers/spammers-and-scammers-using-u-s-election-to-turn-profit-online-facebook-says-idUSKBN2762X3 | 2020-10-22 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| More than half of the Indonesians surveyed blamed foreigners and while in Myanmar the groups most often thought to be responsible were people from China and other foreigners | Negative | The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies warned on Thursday that the novel coronavirus is driving discrimination towards vulnerable communities in Asia including migrants and foreigners | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-stigma/red-cross-warns-coronavirus-is-driving-discrimination-in-asia-idUSKBN2680IS | 2020-09-17 |
| Chinese embassy officials in Myanmar have held talks via teleconference with the countrys authorities to beef up joint efforts for disease control and prevention the embassy said on its website | Positive | 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 |
| 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 Myanmar military has said it is investigating possible wider patterns of before and during a 2017 crackdown in Rakhine State that the United Nations has said was executed with genocidal intent against Rohingya Muslims | Negative | The Myanmar military has said it is investigating possible wider patterns of before and during a 2017 crackdown in Rakhine State that the United Nations has said was executed with genocidal intent against Rohingya Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-myanmar-rohingya/myanmar-army-probes-wider-patterns-of-abuse-against-rohingya-idUSKBN2670JF | 2020-09-16 |
| India shares borders with China Pakistan Bangladesh Myanmar Nepal and Bhutan but the government statement did not name any specific country | Neutral | NEW DELHI Indian state refiners have stopped buying crude oil from Chinalinked companies three sources said after New Delhis recent regulation aimed at restricting imports from countries that it shares a border with | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-china-oil-exclusive/exclusive-indian-state-refiners-halt-oil-imports-from-chinese-cos-sources-say-idUSKBN25N1DQ | 2020-08-28 |
| Myanmar denies genocide and says its forces were conducting legitimate operations against militants who attacked police posts | 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 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 |
| Myanmar is facing charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice over a 2017 military crackdown on the Rohingya that forced 730000 people to flee into Bangladesh | 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 |
| 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 |
| Myanmar does not recognise the term Rohingya or the community as an indigenous ethnic group | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Myanmar denies genocide and says its armed forces were conducting legitimate operations against militants who attacked police posts | 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 |
| Chinas embassy in Myanmar on Sunday accused the United States of outrageously the country and driving a wedge with its Southeast Asian neighbors over the contested South China Sea and Hong Kong as tensions mount between the superpowers | Negative | Chinas embassy in Myanmar on Sunday accused the United States of outrageously the country and driving a wedge with its Southeast Asian neighbors over the contested South China Sea and Hong Kong as tensions mount between the superpowers | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-southchinasea-myanmar/ugly-face-u-s-and-china-trade-barbs-in-myanmar-as-south-china-sea-rift-deepens-idUSKCN24K07N | 2020-07-20 |
| The death toll in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has risen to at least 162 with more feared dead authorities said | Negative | The death toll in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has risen to at least 162 with more feared dead authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-myanmar-mine-toll/death-toll-rises-to-162-in-myanmar-jade-mine-collapse-idUSKBN244067 | 2020-07-03 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Jes Kaliebe Petersen CEO of Myanmar techfocused civil society organization Phandeeyar said he hoped the board would apply more to moderation issues compared with Facebooks universal set of community standards | Positive | The oversight board will focus on a small slice of challenging content issues including hate speech and harassment and peoples safety | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-facebook-oversight/facebook-names-first-members-of-oversight-board-that-can-overrule-zuckerberg-idUSKBN22I2LQ | 2020-05-07 |
| Unlike neighbouring Pakistan Bangladesh Myanmar Nepal and Bhutan China has major investments in India | Positive | NEW DELHI Indias plan to screen foreign direct investments from neighbouring countries has Chinese firms concerned that such scrutiny will affect their projects and delay deals in one of Asias most lucrative investment markets | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-china-investments-analysis/chinese-investors-flummoxed-by-indias-new-foreign-investment-rules-idUSKCN2251YZ | 2020-04-24 |
| 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 |
| In Asia Cambodia Laos Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal the Philippines and Sri Lanka are among them | Neutral | VIENNA The U.N. atomic agency is sending an initial batch of equipment to about 40 countries with which they will be able to perform a standard test for the coronavirus involving a technique derived from nuclear science it said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing-aid/u-n-nuclear-agency-sending-coronavirus-testing-gear-to-40-countries-idUSKBN21J6UR | 2020-04-02 |
| Myanmar reported its first coronavirus death a 69yearold man who also had cancer and died in a hospital in the commercial capital of Yangon | Negative | Countries affected by the novel coronavirus entered another week of strict quarantine and several nations introduced new economic stimulus to aid citizens and companies hit by the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21I0LK | 2020-03-31 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Positive | 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 |
| The Myanmar government says the environmental impact of the dredging is minimal and necessary to clear waterways of builtup sediment | Positive | 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 |
| Those returning from Vietnam Cambodia Laos and Myanmar should self isolate if they develop symptoms the ministry said | Negative | LONDON Britain advised its citizens to avoid traveling to almost a dozen towns in northern Italy and to self isolate if they had flulike symptoms after the death toll there from Europes worst outbreak of coronavirus rose on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-britain-italy/uk-warns-against-traveling-to-italian-coronavirus-towns-idUSKCN20J0XN | 2020-02-26 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| A Myanmar government spokesman and two military spokesmen did not answer calls from Reuters seeking comment | Neutral | 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 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 | Neutral | 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 |
| Myanmar will now have to regularly report on its efforts to protect the Rohingya from acts of genocide every six months until a final ruling in the case | Neutral | 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 |
| Myanmar must use its influence over its military and other armed groups to prevent violence against the Rohingya intended to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in | 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 |
| Myanmars ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement late on Thursday it takes of the decision | Neutral | 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 two countries signed dozens of deals covering trade and infrastructure with Myanmar agreeing to speed up implementation | 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 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| Myanmar has also rebuffed some of Chinas efforts last year rejecting a proposal for refugees to visit Rakhine to assess conditions | Negative | 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 |
| Ko Ko Naing an official of Myanmars social welfare ministry said China had been helping citing its development efforts in Rakhine | 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 |
| Myanmars position is that the Rohingya are Muslim migrants from the Indian subcontinent and not one of the countrys ethnic groups which would technically grant them citizenship | Negative | 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 |
| 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 | Positive | 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 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 |
| 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 | Positive | 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 |
| But many in Myanmar view China warily and infrastructure projects have been deeply unpopular uprooting thousands of villagers and wreaking environmental damage | 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 |
| 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 |
| Hla Kyaw Zaw an analyst based in Yunnan on the MyanmarChina border expects the two sides to work out some compromise over the stalled 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 mainly Muslim west African country filed a lawsuit in November alleging Myanmar was committing an ongoing against the Rohingya in the western state of Rakhine | 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 Myanmar government has strongly disputed that conclusion categorizing the military operation as a legitimate counterterrorism response to attacks by Rohingya militants | 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 mainly Muslim west African country filed the suit in November alleging Myanmar was committing an ongoing against its minority Muslim Rohingya population | 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 |
