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Malaysia doubles patrols to find Myanmar migrant boats
Published on 03/01/2025
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia’s coastguard said on Friday that it was doubling patrols in its waters to locate boats carrying undocumented migrants from Myanmar, after almost 200 were detained on an island in the northwestern state of Kedah.
Govt plans 'aid corridor'
News, Published on 10/02/2024
» The government plans to set up a humanitarian corridor on the border with Myanmar to deliver aid to people displaced by fighting in the neighbouring country.
Myanmar junta declares martial law in town after attacks on bank, police
Reuters, Published on 14/05/2021
» Myanmar's junta has declared martial law in a town in Chin State after blaming "armed terrorists" for attacks on a police station and a bank, state media reported on Friday, amid an upsurge in fighting between the military and ethnic rebels in border areas.
Nothing to celebrate at Kachin Thanksgiving
News, Published on 28/11/2019
» Four score minus seven years ago, on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, the leaders of four of Myanmar's main ethnic groups -- the majority Burmans, plus Kachin, Chin and Shan -- committed to creating a country conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal. The year before independence from Britain in 1948, the legacy Panglong Agreement created conditions for a multicultural country including "a separate Kachin State within a Unified Burma … [I]t is agreed that such a State is desirable".
New ketamine production method puts police on alert
News, Post Reporters, Published on 28/11/2017
» The police Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) is keeping a close watch on the northern border for a possible influx of a new batch of the drug ketamine which has been made using sodium cyanide as a precursor.
Who's keeping tabs on Obor mission?
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 15/05/2017
» Mark my words. The acronym "OBOR" will become a new global buzz word before long. No, it has nothing to do with a new model of mobile phone.
Myanmar army 'attacking Kachin'
Published on 17/12/2016
» YANGON: Myanmar government forces have started launching attacks on the headquarters of the military wing of one of the country's ethnic rebel groups, the group said on Saturday.
Myanmar advances
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 03/10/2016
» Domestic and regional demand, low labour costs and the fast pace of economic growth have attracted huge interest from foreign investors to Myanmar with the Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ) becoming the prime strategic investment destination.
Suu Kyi meets migrant workers in Mahachai
Published on 23/06/2016
» Heavy rain could not deter thousands of Myanmar workers from greeting their idol Aung San Suu Kyi at a market in Samut Sakhon on Thursday.
Finding dhamma in Yangon
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 21/05/2015
» Although Myanmar has opened itself up to tourism for almost two decades, the old capital city Yangon and its suburbs can still boast largely unexplored Buddhist art and culture.