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Zero-Covid left in dust as Chinese revellers fuel travel boom
AFP, Published on 19/01/2023
» DALI (CHINA) - Armed with selfie sticks and freshly recovered from Covid, Chinese tourists ambled through bar streets in the country's backpacker haven of Dali, partying the stress of the past three years into oblivion.
Myanmar's military coup creates banking woes
AFP, Published on 24/02/2021
» YANGON: Early bird customers of a military-owned bank queued anxiously as dawn light crept over Rangoon, after a strict new limit on daily cash withdrawals fuelled rumours of a money shortage in post-coup Myanmar.
Looters target Myanmar temple treasures in tourist slump
AFP, Published on 06/07/2020
» BAGAN, Myanmar: A squad of armed police patrol Myanmar's sacred site of Bagan under the cover of night, taking on plunderers snatching relics from temples forsaken by tourists due to coronavirus restrictions.
Fake news rampant after Sri Lanka attacks despite social media ban
AFP, Published on 22/05/2019
» COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan social networks saw a surge in fake news after the Easter suicide bombings a month ago despite an official social media blackout, highlighting the inability of governments to contain disinformation, experts said.
Myanmar's China frontier 'wildlife supermarket'
AFP, Published on 26/04/2019
» MONGLA, Myanmar: Bentleys and BMW convertibles roll up to the "Venetian Casino" in Mongla on the Myanmar-China border, a melting pot of sex, drugs and gambling on a frontier that has also become a "supermarket" for illegally traded wildlife.
Fire at budget Delhi hotel kills 17
AFP, Published on 12/02/2019
» NEW DELHI - At least 17 people died when a fire ripped through a budget hotel in Delhi on Tuesday, with victims including a woman and a child who reportedly jumped from a window to escape the blaze.
'Everything is business': Rohingya crisis presents economic opportunity
AFP, Published on 19/08/2018
» TEKNAF (BANGLADESH) - Captain Min Min, a Buddhist from Myanmar, looks on as a stream of Muslim Rohingya labourers zig-zag up narrow gangplanks hauling sacks of ginger from his boat onto Bangladeshi soil -- one of many seizing the economic opportunities presented by a refugee crisis.
Myanmar 'exorcist' in court over deaths of three children
AFP, Published on 18/11/2016
» YANGON - A self-proclaimed sorcerer who allegedly beat three children to death in an exorcism ritual appeared in a Rangoon court on Friday, telling reporters he was possessed by a "dark spirit" at the time of the killings.
Myanmar weighs damage after earthquake rattles pagodas
AFP, Published on 25/08/2016
» BAGAN, MYANMAR - Officials picked through the wreckage of toppled spires and crumbling temple walls in Myanmar's ancient capital Bagan on Thursday after a powerful earthquake rattled the top tourist destination, leaving three dead.
Myanmar boom set to bring 7.5m visitors a year
AFP, Published on 03/08/2016
» YANGON - Myanmar is hoping to lure 7.5 million tourists a year by 2019, an official said Tuesday, as the impoverished former junta-ruled nation emerges as one of Southeast Asia's hot destinations.