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Myanmar asked to help catch Vichit murder suspect
Online Reporters, Published on 10/10/2023
» Immigration police have asked Myanmar authorities to help them catch the fleeing suspect in the murder of a retired Thai ambassador at his home in Bangkok.
The Burmese barmaid who nabbed a North Korean assassin
AFP, Published on 09/10/2023
» YANGON, Myanmar: Forty years ago, Myanmar barmaid Dar San Ye stood in a river running through Rangoon, squaring up to a North Korean agent gripping a live grenade.
Bagging solutions
Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/09/2023
» Re: "Brand audits and coastal cleanups", (Opinion, Sept 20).
Myanmar's young pro-democracy activists fill up prisons
Published on 14/06/2023
» MAE SOT: Police in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, came for Min Thwe Thit before dawn on Feb 1, 2021. He did not know why they had come — or what was unfolding in the Southeast Asian nation.
Category 5 Cyclone Mocha set to crash over Myanmar, Bangladesh
AFP, Published on 14/05/2023
» KYAUKTAW, Myanmar: Cyclone Mocha intensified into a category five hurricane on Sunday, hours ahead of its predicted landfall in Myanmar and Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from the coasts were taking shelter.
Pythons on your porch? Call Myanmar's 'Snake Princess'
AFP, Published on 27/04/2023
» KYAUKTAGA, Myanmar: At four in the morning outside a Rangoon monastery, Shwe Lei and her team were wrestling 30 writhing pythons into old rice sacks and loading them into a van.
THG set to spend B5bn on projects from 2023-25
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 17/03/2023
» SET-listed Thonburi Healthcare Group Plc (THG) will spend 5 billion baht between 2023 and 2025 funding various investment projects, including the construction of new hospitals in Thailand and Vietnam, as it aims to benefit from the full reopening of countries.
The town that Charles built
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/10/2022
» On Queen Mother Square in Poundbury, a quaint town in southern England, sits a huge neo-Classical apartment block, painted bright yellow and decorated with Romanesque columns.
Myanmar grandfather on mission to revive juggling art
AFP, Published on 22/08/2022
» YANGON: Han Myint Mo kicks up a gold-coloured metal ball, pirouettes and catches it on the blade of a knife held in her teeth -- keeping up a Myanmar juggling tradition on the edge of extinction.
Executed Myanmar prisoners deserved 'many death sentences': junta spokesman
AFP, Published on 26/07/2022
» YANGON: Myanmar's junta lashed out Tuesday against international condemnation of the country's first use of capital punishment in decades, saying the four executed prisoners -- two of them prominent democracy fighters -- "deserved many death sentences."