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About Myanmar
Area: 676,578 sq km (slightly smaller than Texas)
Population: 57,069,099 (July 2021 est.)
Median age: 29.2 years
Capital: Naypyidaw
Ethnic Groups: Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Rakhine 4%, Chinese 3%, Indian 2%, Mon 2%, other 5%
Religion: Buddhist 87.9%, Christian 6.2%, Muslim 4.3%, Animist 0.8%, Hindu 0.5%, Other 0.2%, None 0.1% (2014 est.)
Unemployment: 4% (2017 est.)
The United States officially still calls the country Burma.
The Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority in Myanmar’s Rakhine State thought to number about one million people at the beginning of 2017. Myanmar does not recognize them as citizens or one of the 135 recognized ethnic groups living in the country. According to Human Rights Watch, laws discriminate against the Rohingya, infringing on their freedom of movement, education and employment.
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2021-04-27 02:05:49 GMT2021-04-27 10:05:49(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SEOUL, April 27 (Xinhua) The Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat (TCS), a Seoul-based international body for regional peace, held a forum Tuesday on cooperation among China, South Korean and Japan.
The International Forum for Trilateral Cooperation 2021 was hosted by the TCS under the theme of In light of the TCS 10-year anniversary: the new trilateral partnership in the next decade. Trilateral cooperation and the TCS have been developing successfully, regardless of the ups and downs of the three bilateral relations, but at the same time, we still have a long way to go. I am glad to have witnessed the continuous and institutional development of trilateral cooperation, said TCS Secretary-General Hisashi Michigami.