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PHNOM PENH / AFP- Cambodian Premier Hun Sen lashed out Monday at claims his government had bowed to Chinese pressure to help scupper a joint statement by Southeast Asian nations on the South China Sea. In an angry speech Hun Sen also accused an international court of political bias as it prepares to rule on a sea dispute between the Philippines and China. The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration is widely expected to rule […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — At least 11 people died in a landslide in a remote jade mining region of northern Myanmar with many more feared missing, authorities said Tuesday, in the latest deadly incident to hit the shadowy industry. Locals and officials are searching for bodies after a wall of unstable earth collapsed during a downpour on Monday night in Hpakant, Kachin State, the war-torn area that feeds a huge demand for the precious stone […]
By Cristy Ecalner Eagle News correspondent in Myanmar YANGON, Myanmar (Eagle News) — The Worldwide Intensive Propagation in Myanmar was a success. It officially started last May 14, the Worldwide Distribution of Pamphlets wherein the members of the Iglesia ni Cristo in Yangon GWS started inviting their friends, co-workers and colleagues who not a member of the church yet, to listen to the words of God. During the same week, with the help of the […]
by Phyo Hein KYAW Naypyidaw, Myanmar (AFP) — United States Secretary of State John Kerry is set to meet Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi Sunday for Washington’s first high level talks with her new civilian government, offering backing to her country’s democratic progress after decades of army rule. The meeting in the capital Naypyidaw comes days after the US lifted a host of financial and trade embargoes in recognition of political changes that saw November’s […]
by Athens Zaw Zaw YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Witnesses to a boat capsize that left some 20 people dead, including children, say the victims were from the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority and blamed the tragedy on travel restrictions that forced them to journey by sea. At least 21 people, including nine children, died after a packed boat capsized in choppy waters on Tuesday as it approached the Rakhine state capital of Sittwe, according to the […]
Earthquake expert Dr. Ishmael C. Narag, from the OIC Seismology Division of Phivolcs discusses preparing for an earthquake.
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar was struck by a magnitude 6.9 quake on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey reported, with tremors felt around the region, including in neighbouring India and China. The quake, which was 134 kilometres (214 miles) deep, hit some 396 kilometres north northwest of the capital Naypyidaw, according to the USGS. Much of Myanmar’s outlying provinces have poor communications infrastructure, including the area where the earthquake hit. However there were no […]
(Reuters) — The Lao People’s Army patrol boat is custom-made in China with night-vision capability and two of the most powerful engines on this remote stretch of the Mekong River. However the lack of resources, such as gasoline, means the boat often stays docked and unused. Even occasional patrols by boats like these, supplied by China to the Lao army and Myanmar police, have successfully subdued the pirates who once robbed the Mekong’s cargo […]
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s parliament will bring forward a vote for the next president to March 10, it was announced Tuesday, leaving little time for Aung San Suu Kyi to strike a deal to let her take the top office. The democracy icon is currently banned from becoming president under the junta-era constitution. Since her National League for Democracy (NLD) party’s crushing victory at elections in November, Suu Kyi has been locked in negotiations with the […]
SAMUTPRAKAN, Thailand (Reuters) — Global charity Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) on Friday (February 26) launched a mission in the Andaman Sea to track and rescue migrant boats in distress in the Southeast Asia region. The migrant boats contain a mix of people from Bangladesh seeking to escape poverty at home as well as Rohingyas, Indonesian and Malay authorities have said. Most of Myanmar’s 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims are stateless and live in apartheid-like conditions […]
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (AFP) — At least four Myanmar military personnel were feared dead after a small air force propeller plane crashed shortly after take off in the capital Naypyidaw Wednesday, official sources said. The Beechcraft passenger plane, which was carrying five crew members and believed to be on a routine patrol, went down in agricultural land near the airport. Hundreds of people gathered in the area as officials raced to extinguish the fire and sift […]
(Reuters) — Myanmar’s new members of parliament gathered on Wednesday (February 3) to choose a new upper house speaker. Hundreds of lawmakers from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) were sworn in to Myanmar’s parliament on Monday (February 1), with enough seats to choose the country’s first democratically-elected government since the military took power in 1962. Before Wednesday’s session began, some members of parliament spoke to the media and said they […]
