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Thailand repatriates 132 Myanmar nationals sentenced in Thailand to Kawthoung

Thailand repatriates 132 Myanmar nationals sentenced in Thailand to Kawthoung

A total of 132 Myanmar nationals who had been sentenced in Thailand were repatriated to Kawthoung, according to sources. The Myanmar nationals who were detained at the Immigration Police Station in Ranong, Thailand were repatriated to Kawthoung,...

Has there been a US policy shift on Myanmar in Trump 2.0?

Has there been a US policy shift on Myanmar in Trump 2.0?

The US’s recent imposition of a complete travel ban affecting 12 countries, including Myanmar, among few other countries under partial ban, is becoming a contentious topic. Citing security concerns and high visa overstay rates, the travel ban...

The Genocide No One Talks About: Biharis, Betrayal, And 1971’s Unfinished Story

The Genocide No One Talks About: Biharis, Betrayal, And 1971’s Unfinished Story

The word “genocide,” coined by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, has lost its pain due to its live transmission on our TV screens. This op-ed is certainly not about the “alleged” genocide in Gaza, because I do not wish to diminish my chances...

World : Myanmar Battles To Replace Poppy Cultivation With Cash Crops 

World : Myanmar Battles To Replace Poppy Cultivation With Cash Crops 

By Vijian Paramasivam PHNOM PENH, June 27 (Bernama) -- The ongoing armed conflict is hindering Myanmar’s efforts to eliminate poppy cultivation and combat drug trafficking, posing a threat to national security. The prevailing political...

Propped Up by China, Junta Boss Slams Foreign Meddling in Myanmar ‘Peace Process’

Propped Up by China, Junta Boss Slams Foreign Meddling in Myanmar ‘Peace Process’

Amid its escalating aerial campaign targeting rebel-held territories, Myanmar’s military regime is hosting a “Peace Forum” in Naypyitaw, from which armed groups actively fighting the regime are notably absent. Addressing the forum, which kicked...

Foreign aid cutbacks worsen education crisis in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camps

Foreign aid cutbacks worsen education crisis in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camps

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday on the deteriorating impact of humanitarian funds cutbacks on the education crisis in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps. The group urged the country’s interim government to lift restrictions on refugees...

Made In Singapore: ‘Orchid diplomacy’ has flowers named after Obama, Pope Francis and Jackie Chan

Made In Singapore: ‘Orchid diplomacy’ has flowers named after Obama, Pope Francis and Jackie Chan

SINGAPORE – “Selected for vigour and the amount of growth it produces,” remarked then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as she posed for photos with an orchid named after her in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. It was 1985, and that was the...

Junta to discuss plans for 2025 elections at Naypyitaw Peace Forum

Junta to discuss plans for 2025 elections at Naypyitaw Peace Forum

Discussions of a nationwide election that the junta plans to hold this year will be on the agenda of a conference attended this week by military officials in the regime’s capital, Naypyitaw, as reported by junta-run media. A participant in the...

Honourable dress of Myanmar women

Honourable dress of Myanmar women

Zeyar Naing (Shwe Kan Myay) Myanmar women have preserved the noble traditions and customs from generation to generation. The efforts of these women in safeguarding such traditions are also prominently reflected in the literature that emerged...

First HSK exam at Yangon University strengthens China-Myanmar ties

First HSK exam at Yangon University strengthens China-Myanmar ties

According to the Chinese Embassy to Myanmar, the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) was held for the first time at the University of Yangon on 22 June. This year’s HSK was the third such Chinese proficiency test organized by the private high school in...

Shadow government condemns killers of Fr Donald, but Catholics demand justice

Shadow government condemns killers of Fr Donald, but Catholics demand justice

The Nug has handed down a 20-year prison sentence to members of the group responsible for the murder in Sagaing. The priest was killed in a targeted and premeditated attack. AsiaNews source: the sentence is positive, but "we do not see...

World : Top News Headlines In Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam: June 26, 2025

World : Top News Headlines In Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam: June 26, 2025

INDONESIA 1. GOVERNMENT WEIGHS FULL REOPENING OF BANDUNG AIRPORT AMID ECONOMIC DEBATE -- JAKARTA GLOBE The central government is not yet ready to fully reopen Husein Sastranegara Airport in Bandung, despite repeated calls from Bandung Mayor...

Two Mizo journalists part of Emmy-Winning BBC team for Myanmar civil war documentary

Two Mizo journalists part of Emmy-Winning BBC team for Myanmar civil war documentary

Aizawl: Two journalists from Mizoram, HC Vanlalruata and Isaac Zoramsanga, have achieved a historic milestone, becoming the first from the state to be part of a team that won an international Emmy Award for a documentary. The short-form...

Bangladesh: Foreign Aid Cuts Affect Rohingya Children’s Education

Bangladesh: Foreign Aid Cuts Affect Rohingya Children’s Education

US and other foreign donor cutbacks in humanitarian aid have worsened the existing education crisis for 437,000 school-age children in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, with schools that served hundreds of thousands of children shut down. The...

Catholic immigration advocate decries high court ruling allowing third-country deportations

Catholic immigration advocate decries high court ruling allowing third-country deportations

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A leading Catholic immigration expert expressed outrage over the Supreme Court’s June 23 ruling allowing the Trump administration to remove immigrants who lack legal authorization to live and work in the U.S., to countries...

Tennis coaching course concludes in Yangon

Tennis coaching course concludes in Yangon

Award presentation to trainees. The closing ceremony of the 2025 Tennis Coaching Course, jointly organized by the Myanmar Tennis Federation (MTF) and the Yangon Region Education Office, was held on 14 July at the Theinbyu Tennis Court in Mingala...

Turkiye Education Fair 2025 to be held at Lotte Hotel on 29 June

Turkiye Education Fair 2025 to be held at Lotte Hotel on 29 June

The advertising poster for Turkiye Education Fair 2025. Photo: Gardenia Myanmar TurkIye Education Fair 2025 will be held at the Lotte Hotel on 29 June 2025. The fair will feature top-ranking universities such as Istanbul Okan University, Özyeğin...

Humanitarian Fallout of Myanmar Earthquake Amplifies Suffering in War...

Humanitarian Fallout of Myanmar Earthquake Amplifies Suffering in War...

On 28 March 2025, Myanmar was struck by a catastrophic magnitude 7.7 earthquake near the central regions of Mandalay and Sagaing, followed by powerful aftershocks. This seismic event, the strongest in the country in over a century, has compounded...

Mizoram govt likely to begin biometric enrolment for Myanmar refugees from July

Mizoram govt likely to begin biometric enrolment for Myanmar refugees from July

Aizawl, June 25: The Mizoram Government is set to launch a biometric enrolment drive for over 32,000 Myanmar nationals currently taking refuge in the State, with the process expected to begin in July, officials stated. According to State Home...

Rivals Unite in Myanmar’s Southeast

Rivals Unite in Myanmar’s Southeast

MON AND KAYIN STATES, Myanmar—Before the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, Nai Kyi San’s only firsthand combat experience was fighting against another rebel group: the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA). “I don’t think about that now because based...

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