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Workers at a brick factory toil through sweltering heat to shape, dry and bake bricks. The work is seasonal and labor-intensive. The manager says if he has openings, he'll give a job to anyone willing to do the work.

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Long-Persecuted Rohingya Find Refuge, But Not Acceptance, In Bangladesh

5:34am April 14, 2017

Rohingya Muslims fleeing a recent crackdown in Myanmar are just the latest wave of refugees to arrive in Bangladesh. But patience is wearing thin in the impoverished country with scarce resources.

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The Balukali refugee camp, located about an hour's drive south of the seaside tourist city of Cox's Bazar, is one of many informal camps in southern Bangladesh. An estimated 2,000 Rohingya families who fled neighboring Myanmar live in Balukali.

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Rohingya Fleeing Myanmar Describe Military Tactic Of Systematic Rape

9:26am April 13, 2017

Witnesses say Myanmar forces waged a six-month campaign of murder, arson and mass rape after Rohingya militants attacked border guards. The Muslim minority has long faced persecution in Myanmar.

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A baby dinosaur's tail is encased in amber along with ants, a beetle and plant fragments.

Baby Dinosaur's 99 Million-Year-Old Tail, Encased In Amber, Surfaces In Myanmar

9:38pm December 08, 2016

by Rae Ellen Bichell

Millions of years ago, a dinosaur about the size of a sparrow had a bad day. It got stuck in tree resin. Paleontologists recently came across the rare amber fossil containing its tail in Myanmar.

U.S. Lifts Economic Sanctions Against Myanmar

3:42pm October 07, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

President Obama issued the executive order on Friday, saying he made the decision in light of political reforms in the Southeast Asian nation.

Obama Says U.S. Is Prepared To Lift Sanctions Against Myanmar

3:59pm September 14, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

It's going to happen "soon," President Obama said during remarks at a joint news conference with Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. He said this comes in light of political reforms.

The ancient Sulamuni temple is surrounded by a cloud of dust as a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit Bagan, Myanmar, on Wednesday.

Earthquake Rattles Myanmar And Neighboring Countries

1:26pm August 24, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

People as far away as Thailand, India and Bangladesh felt the magnitude 6.8 quake. Historic pagodas in the city of Bagan appeared to be damaged, and at least three people reportedly died.

President Obama shakes hands with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on Monday. Obama's Vietnam trip is the latest in a series of moves reaching out to old U.S. rivals.

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Casting Aside Cold War Ghosts, Obama Reaches Out To Old Rivals

1:20pm May 24, 2016

by Greg Myre

As his time in office winds down, President Obama has sought to jettison vestiges of the Cold War and reach out to old rivals, from Vietnam to Cuba and beyond.

Beh paw Gaw is a New Roots graduate and a Karen refugee from Myanmar. Now she has her own three acre farm which she runs with her sister Pay lay, who is also a graduate of the New Roots program.

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Refugees Plant The Seeds Of A New Community In Kansas City

12:46pm April 11, 2016

by Oluwakemi Aladesuyi

A farming education program aims to help people fleeing violence and persecution establish new roots — figuratively and literally.

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Myanmar Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi (center) walks out of her ministry in Naypyitaw on Friday. Her ally U Htin Kyaw took over as Myanmar's president Wednesday.

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Myanmar's Ruling Party Wants To Make Aung San Suu Kyi The 'President's Boss'

10:31am April 01, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from becoming the president. So legislators in her party are proposing a new job that's formally called "state adviser" — and informally called president's boss.

Myanmar's newly sworn in Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi laughs along with top military officers, as her country marks a new step toward democracy Wednesday.

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Myanmar Gets First Civilian Government In Decades

10:42am March 30, 2016

by Bill Chappell

Prohibited by constitutional rules from seeking her country's top post, former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi now becomes Myanmar's foreign minister.