Topic - Yangon

Yangon (; also known as Rangoon, literally: "End of Strife") is a former capital of Burma (Myanmar) and the capital of Yangon Region. Although the military government has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of over five million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial centre. - Source: Wikipedia

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FILE - Military officers march during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 80th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

An urban guerrilla group in Myanmar claims responsibility for assassinating a retired army officer

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A released prisoner, center, is welcomed by family members outside the main gate of Insein prison as the head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to thousands of prisoners to mark the country's traditional New Year Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Myanmar frees nearly 4,900 prisoners including some political detainees

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An unidentified legal official from Kamayut district court speaks outside the residence of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the home is auctioned in Yangon, MyanmarThursday, Aug. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

With asking price of $142 million, no bidders for home of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi

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An official of the Union Election Commission counts ballots at a polling station in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Nov. 8, 2020. A top election official in Myanmar was fatally shot on Saturday, April 22, 2023, in his car in Yangon, the country’s commercial capital, in the latest attack attributed to militants opposed to military rule. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Top election official in Myanmar assassinated by guerrillas

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This image from an April 18, 2021 news report by Myawaddy TV shows people who security forces said they detained in a weapons raid a day earlier in the Yankin township of Yangon, Myanmar. At least 3,500 people have been detained since the military seized power in the country in February 2021, more than three-quarters of whom are male, according to an analysis of data collected by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which monitors deaths and arrests. Of the 419 men whose ages were recorded in the group’s database, nearly two-thirds are under age 30, and 78 are teenagers. (Myawaddy TV via AP)

Myanmar’s military disappearing young men to crush uprising

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A police vehicle is parked at a road in South Okkalapa township to block anti-coup protesters' gathering in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, April 9, 2021. An information blackout under Myanmar's military junta worsened Thursday as fiber broadband service, the last legal way for ordinary people to access the internet, became intermittently inaccessible on several networks. (AP Photo)

Reports: Myanmar forces kill 82 in single day in city

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Anti-coup protesters flash the three-fingered symbol of resistance while holding slogans bearing pictures of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar on Wednesday April 7, 2021. Threats of lethal violence and arrests of protesters have failed to suppress daily demonstrations across Myanmar demanding the military step down and reinstate the democratically elected government. (AP Photo)

Myanmar security forces attack town that resisted with arms

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In this photo released by the Free Burma Rangers, Karen villagers gather in the forests as they hide from military airstrikes in the Deh Bu Noh area of the Papun district, north Karen state, Myanmar, Sunday, March 28, 2021. Thai authorities along its northwestern border braced themselves, Monday, for a possible influx of more ethnic Karen villagers fleeing the fear of renewed air strikes from the Myanmar military. (Free Burma Rangers via AP)

Thousands flee into Thailand following Myanmar airstrikes

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Anti-coup protesters gesture during a march in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, March 26, 2021. Protesters against last month's military takeover in Myanmar returned to the streets in large numbers Thursday, a day after staging a &quot;silence strike&quot; in which people were urged to stay home and businesses to close for the day. (AP Photo)

Myanmar forces kill scores in deadliest day since coup

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Relatives and friends of Khat Aung Phyo, a boy who was killed by bullet on March 14, raise a three-finger salute, a symbol of resistance, as his body is moved out from a mortuary in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, March 15, 2021. Myanmar's ruling junta has declared martial law in six townships in the country's largest city, as security forces killed dozens of protesters over the weekend in an increasingly lethal crackdown on resistance to last month’s military coup. (AP Photo)

Protesters in Myanmar fight back amid violent crackdown

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Black smoke billows from the industrial zone of Hlaing Thar Yar township in Yangon, Myanmar Sunday, March 14, 2021. Attacks on Chinese-run factories in Myanmar's biggest city drew demands Monday from Beijing for protection for their property and employees, while many in Myanmar expressed outrage over China's apparent lack of concern for those killed in protests against last month's military coup. Myanmar state media have reported that martial law was declared in six districts in Yangon, including the major industrial zones of Hlaing Thar Yar and Shwepyitha. (AP Photo)

Attacks on Chinese-run factories in Myanmar vex Beijing

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Protesters hold placards and gesture with a three-finger sign of resistance as they protest against the military coup in Mandalay, Myanmar, Friday, March 12, 2021. Myanmar's security forces shot to death at least 10 people protesting the military's coup, spurning a U.N. Security Council appeal to stop using lethal force. (AP Photo)

Myanmar junta keeps pressure on protesters, journalists

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Buddhist monks, supporters of anti-coup protesters display placards during a march through the streets of Mandalay, Myanmar, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. CRPH stands for Committee Representing elected members of the Union Parliament from the National League for Democracy Party&quot;. (AP Photo)

Myanmar police raid housing for striking railway workers

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Protesters are dispersed as riot police fired tear gas behind a makeshift barricade in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, March 7, 2021. The escalation of violence in Myanmar as authorities crack down on protests against the Feb. 1 coup is raising pressure for more sanctions against the junta, even as countries struggle over how to best sway military leaders inured to global condemnation. (AP Photo)

Myanmar crisis heightens with police raids and strike call

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Riot police officers hold down a protester as they disperse protesters in Tharkata Township on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, March 6, 2021. The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar on Friday called for urgent Security Council action, saying multiple peaceful protesters were killed and injured in the military's worst crackdowns this week. (AP Photo)

Protests, tear gas in Myanmar after UN envoy urges action

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