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 He previously served as Prime Minister from October 11, 2015 to August 3, 2016 and again from February 15, 2018 to May 13, 2021.
 

In 2020 alone, over 1700 Japan-invested firms and manufacturers pulled out of China after then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rolled out measures to incentivise manufacturing within the country and, at the same time, diversifying into other Southeast Asian countries.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited clarifies that it has had no business dealings with Myanmar Defence Forces between 2017 and 2019 as claimed by the UNHRC's Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar and Stockholm International Peace and Research Institute Arms Transfers Database.

A circular, dated March 26, by the Manipur Home department had directed officials to "politely turn away" people trying to enter India or seek refuge.

Suu Kyi's extended detention is likely to further inflame tensions between the military, which seized power in a February 1 coup, and the protesters who have taken to the streets of cities across the Southeast Asian nation seeking the return of the government they elected.
 

The military overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi's democratically-elected government on February 1, alleging without evidence that elections her party won by a landslide had been marred by fraud.
 

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered new sanctions against the military regime in Myanmar, taking action after the military this month staged a coup in the Southeast Asian country and arrested de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior politicians.

On February 1, Myanmar's powerful military, Tatmadaw, detained State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other senior leaders before declaring a year-long state of emergency in the country.

The 26-year-old Boeing Co 737-500 which crashed into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff from Jakarta on January 9, claimed all 62 lives on board.
 

State media and other communications have reportedly been blocked completely.