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Asia Update: Myanmar

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A portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi seen on a protester's shirt during a demonstration in Bangkok.
A portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi seen on a protester's shirt during a demonstration in Bangkok.(Photo by Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images))

In this edition of our fortnightly Asia Update, we get an overview of the situation in Myanmar, where the military junta has extended the state of emergency for another six months, and granted a partial pardon to former leader Aung San Suu Kyi. 

Guest:

Thomas Kean - Director/editor-at-large at Frontier Myanmar and senior consultant with International Crisis Group.

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