Wa Lone@walone4

Correspondent @Reuters, reporting in Canada and Myanmar, Pulitzer win 2019 with Reuters Team, Children Books Author, MA Political Science student at U of T

 Toronto, Ontario
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Joined August 2013
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A month after a deadly 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar, survivors are still struggling with a shattered healthcare system, made worse by military rule. @poppymcp @Shoon_Naing reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

Few doctors, throttled aid: How Myanmar’s junta worsened earthquake toll

Burmese academic Sophia Htwe spent hours desperately trying to call home from Australia after the 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck her hometown in Myanmar in late March, learning that a childhood...

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UN urges aid to Myanmar quake survivors before monsoons hit, death toll climbs towards 3,000 reuters.com/business/environ…

UN urges aid to Myanmar quake survivors before monsoons hit, death toll climbs towards 3,000

United Nations officials who surveyed earthquake damage in Myanmar urged the global community on Tuesday to ramp up aid before the looming monsoon season worsens already catastrophic conditions, with...

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Amid earthquake crisis, Myanmar military still bombs towns reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

Myanmar military still bombing towns despite earthquake crisis, rebels say

An armed resistance movement against Myanmar's military-run government criticised the junta on Sunday for conducting airstrikes on villages even as the country reels from an earthquake that has...

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Myanmar quake death toll hits 1,700 as aid scramble intensifies reuters.com/business/environ…

Myanmar quake death toll hits 1,700 as aid scramble intensifies

The U.S. Geological Service's predictive modelling estimated Myanmar's death toll could eventually top 10,000 and losses could exceed the country's annual economic output.

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Thu Thu Aung@thuttag
30 Mar 2025
Apocalyptic scenes from Mandalay, MM. Only seeing small snippets of what is happening, given minimal internet or electricity. Supplies of food and water running scarce. Lack of machinery or govt support to find people under buildings. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #MyanmarEarthquake
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The Rohingya exodus and ICC prosecutor's pursuit of Myanmar's top general reut.rs/3AQtLPr
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How an anxious China is backing Myanmar's faltering junta in civil war reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

Insight: How an anxious China is backing Myanmar's faltering junta in civil war

When an alliance led by three rebel armies seized swathes of territory near Myanmar's border with China from the military junta last October, Beijing looked the other way.

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The dominoes continue to fall at ESPN, with NBA senior writer Zach Lowe the latest in a series of layoffs by the U.S. sports network. trib.al/dI7Cs5c

ESPN lays off senior NBA reporter Zach Lowe: report

Lowe is out one week after top NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski left for a job at his alma mater.

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Sikh activists in US, Canada face threats a year after Trudeau linked leader's killing to India reuters.com/world/some-us-si…

Sikh activists in US, Canada face threats a year after Trudeau linked leader's killing to India

Threats. Surveillance. Doxxing. Swatting. Here's why some Sikhs in the US and Canada fear Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is trying to silence them .

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Our team talked to more than a dozen of Buthiduang residents on phone and in person which we analyzed and fact checked with satellite imagery to find out what happened in Buthiduang on May 17. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar @walone4 @poppymcp @DevjyotGhoshal reut.rs/3WJEGmb

Myanmar’s largest Rohingya town set ablaze by rebel group

Myanmar’s Rohingya-majority Buthidaung town was targeted by both sides of the civil war and parts of the settlement were set ablaze by the rebel Arakan Army

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Bob Rae@BobRae48
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The news from both Bangladesh and Myanmar is terrible. In Bangladesh, hundreds have been killed security forces,communication has been severely limited and hundreds thrown in jail. In Myanmar the civil war is deepening and spreading, and the humanitarian crisis is deepening, with millions displaced and going hungry. The #Rohingya population is particularly vulnerable in both countries. More attention must be paid.
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Learning from Myanmar's rebels, junta builds new Chinese drone fleet reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

Insight: Learning from Myanmar's rebels, junta builds new Chinese drone fleet

Myanmar's resistance fighters notched decisive breakthroughs last year by relying on a scattered fleet of drones in battles against one of Southeast Asia's most feared militaries.

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Myanmar's Tin Oo, pro-democracy general who co-founded Suu Kyi's party, dies at 97   reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

Myanmar's Tin Oo, pro-democracy general who co-founded Suu Kyi's party, dies at 97

Tin Oo, a towering figure in Myanmar's pro-democracy movement and close ally of detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, died on Saturday at age 97, political associates and close friends said.

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Myanmar rebel group withdraws troops from key town on Thai border reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

Myanmar rebel group withdraws troops from key town on Thai border

An armed ethnic group in Myanmar has withdrawn its troops from a town along the Thai border following a counteroffensive by the ruling junta from whom rebel fighters wrested the key trading post this...

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Rebels raise flag at seized Myanmar base, commander confident of retaining control reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

Rebels raise flag at seized Myanmar base, commander confident of retaining control

Myanmar resistance fighters on Monday burned the flag used by the military government and raised their own banner at a newly captured army base, as a senior rebel commander vowed they would hold the...

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Myanmar rebels say they have repelled junta push to take back border town reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

EXCLUSIVE: Myanmar rebels say they have repelled junta push to take back border town

A resistance group fighting Myanmar's military rule said on Sunday its fighters had repelled an attempt by junta troops to advance on the key town of Myawaddy along the Thai border that was seized by...

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Thai PM says Myanmar regime 'losing strength' reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

Thai PM says Myanmar regime 'losing strength'

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin told Reuters now is a good time to open talks with Myanmar as the military regime that seized power in a 2021 coup is weakening.

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Weeks after Myanmar's military government announced a nationwide draft, two young women from far-flung parts of the Southeast Asian country headed to the jungles to take up arms against the junta. reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

Fight back or flee? Myanmar draft forces hard choices on youth

Weeks after Myanmar's military government announced a nationwide draft, two young women from far-flung parts of the Southeast Asian country headed to the jungles to take up arms against the junta.

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Myanmar militias revel after attempted drone attacks on junta's stronghold capital reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

Myanmar militias revel after attempted drone attacks on junta's stronghold capital

Anti-junta forces in Myanmar attempted coordinated drone attacks on military facilities in its capital on Thursday, army TV and a parallel government said, in a brazen challenge to a military...

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Solar eclipse: Newfoundland's remote town of Burgeo prepares a party reuters.com/world/americas/a…

Solar eclipse: A Newfoundland island named by Captain Cook prepares to throw party

In the remote town of Burgeo on the east coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, some residents are enthusiastically waiting to view Monday's rare solar eclipse and recreate the...

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