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Macau,
A little more than a year ago, the government’s military was on the back foot in Myanmar ‘s bloody civil war, pushed out of great swaths of
U.S. officials have announced a sweeping crackdown on Southeast Asian cyberscam operations as part of what U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro characterized Friday as a “new theater of war” launched by
This year’s Association of Macau Myanmar Overseas Chinese Water Festival provided support for local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the “Three Lamps” district, as the
Lawmakers arrive to attend a session at Lower House parliament in Naypyitaw Myanmar opened its first parliamentary session in more than five years yesterday following
People from China, Vietnam and Ethiopia, believed to have been trafficked and forced to work in scam centers, sit with their faces masked while in detention after being released
East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kuala Lumpur The president of East Timor told AP yesterday that he
Myanmar’s military carried out a paraglider strike on a village that killed at least 24 people including children, and wounded more than 50 others, according
Rohingya refugees gather as they hold placards and flags to demand safe return to Myanmar’s Rakhine state, in Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh, yesterday Tens of thousands of Rohingya
Myanmar military courts have sentenced a dozen individuals — including five Chinese nationals — to life imprisonment for their involvement in multiple human trafficking cases, state-run media
Officials in Myanmar’s major cities destroyed about $300 million worth of confiscated illegal drugs yesterday. The destroyed drugs included opium, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana, ketamine and the
A military fighter jet crashed and burned yesterday in an area that has seen intense fighting during Myanmar’s civil war, with a rebel group claiming to have shot it
The civil war in Myanmar, maritime disputes in the South China Sea and U.S. tariff hikes will top the agenda of a two-day Southeast Asian summit next week, Malaysian
An ethnic militia in southeastern Myanmar that has been sanctioned by the United States for alleged involvement in human trafficking and online scams yesterday denied the accusations.
They walked out of the compound in Myanmar not knowing where they would go. Though they were aiming for the river that separated them from Thailand and
The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar has made a visit to the military-ruled nation, meeting with the foreign minister as the country recovers from an earthquake that
The death toll from the massive earthquake that hit Myanmar nearly a week ago rose yesterday to 3,085 as search and rescue teams found more bodies,
Rescue crews in Myanmar pulled a 26-year-old man out alive from the rubble of the capital city hotel where he worked early yesterday, but most teams were finding
The death toll in last week’s massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000, state media said as accounts of some people’s last moments emerged: Two hundred
Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai has sent a message of sympathy to Myanmar’s leader, Min Aung Hlaing, following the massive earthquake that struck Myanmar on
The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar’s second-largest city yesterday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of
The head of Myanmar’s military government traveled to Russia yesterday on an official visit to a major ally of the Southeast Asian nation that has been shunned
A new crackdown on online scam centers has led to over 7,000 people from around the world being held in a Myanmar border town awaiting repatriation, and those
Efforts to shut down online scam centers in Myanmar appeared to gain momentum this week as a top Chinese security official visited both sides of the Thai-Myanmar
Thailand yesterday cut off power supplies to areas in Myanmar where scam networks operate, following a public outcry demanding government action to tackle the problem.
Chinese authorities have detained a key suspect in human trafficking cases linked to online scam networks near the borders of Myanmar and Thailand, China’s Ministry of Public
Chinese actor who disappeared after traveling to Thailand and was found near the border of Myanmar in an area where online scam networks operate was a victim of human trafficking,
A powerful rebel group has seized a key trading town in northeastern Myanmar on the Chinese border, taking control of a lucrative rare earth mining hub in
The head of Myanmar’s military government embarked yesterday on an official visit to China, the embattled Southeast Asian nation’s most important international ally, for several regional meetings.
The Chinese Consulate in Myanmar’s second-largest city has been slightly damaged by an explosive device, but there were no casualties, the military, independent media and a
Southeast Asian leaders gathered yesterday for an annual forum that will focus on the civil war in Myanmar and territorial tensions in the South China Sea, two
For three months in 2016, a British journalist working in Myanmar traveled across the Southeast Asian country on trains with a mission to find out where they
Myanmar’s military regime acknowledged yesterday it had lost communications with the commanders of a strategically important army headquarters in the northeast, adding credence to claims from
Southeast Asian foreign ministers and top diplomats from key partners including the United States and China are gathering in the Laotian capital yesterday for the start of
The United Nations’ food agency earlier this week strongly condemned the looting of food supplies and burning of one of its warehouses over the weekend in
Myanmar’s military government has launched a major effort to block free communication on the Internet, shutting off access to virtual private networks, or VPNs, which can be
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