Category: Regional
A distant vision for Burma’s industrial future
Every morning hundreds of cars, trucks and other vehicles carrying factory workers squeeze into a two-lane bridge across Yangon’s Bago river. The buzz of industrial [...]
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Bangladesh, UNHCR to survey Rohingya regarding return to Burma
Bangladesh will work with the United Nations refugee agency to determine if more than 3,000 Rohingya refugees will accept Myanmar’s offer to return home, an official [...]
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Cambodia explosion: British teacher among several injured as illegal petrol station bursts into flames
A British teacher and her American friend were seriously injured after an illegal petrol station exploded in Cambodia as they rode past on a motorcycle. Zoe Eleftheriou, 22, [...]
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Cambodia to ban online gambling, cites threat to social order
Cambodia said on Sunday it is banning online gambling, which helped propel a wave of Chinese investment in casinos in the country, saying that the industry had been used by [...]
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Correction: Burma-Asean story
Malaysia’s foreign ministry said Tuesday that Myanmar’s government must pursue justice for alleged human rights abuses against the Muslim Rohingya minority so [...]
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‘Until her bones are broken’: Burma activists fight to outlaw domestic violence
Cradling her one-year-old daughter in a house in southern Myanmar, 22-year-old Nu Nu Aye recalled the reasons her husband gave for beating her. She hadn’t looked after [...]
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Cambodia-European Union trade deal is on the chopping block
Accusations of human rights abuse by the Cambodian government may force the end of a preferential trade agreement. Two sisters sit on the tile floor of a small bare room. [...]
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At least 14 dead in unprecedented rebel attack on Burma military town
At least 14 people have been killed in ongoing fighting Thursday between Myanmar’s military and rebels who mounted a series of attacks, including an unprecedented [...]
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Burma rebels carry out unprecedented attack on military academy
Myanmar’s military was Thursday fighting rebels who mounted an unprecedented strike at an army academy killing at least one, apparently in retaliation for massive drug [...]
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New report: Proposed Burma dam could displace thousands
New report: Proposed Myanmar dam could displace thousands Some worry that despite financial and social costs, much of the electricity proposed dam will generate will be [...]
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Burma landslide kills 41, many more feared missing
The death toll from a landslide triggered by monsoon rains in eastern Myanmar rose to at least 41, an official said late Saturday, as emergency workers continued for a second [...]
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Burma troops help flood rescue after landslide kills 51
Myanmar troops deployed to flood-hit parts of the country on Sunday to help with relief efforts after rising waters left thousands stranded and the death toll from a [...]
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Burma battles rising floodwaters after landslide kills 52
Myanmar troops and emergency responders scrambled to provide aid in flood-hit parts of the country Sunday after rising waters forced residents to flee by boat and a landslide [...]
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Burma landslide kills 22, many more feared missing
The death toll from a landslide triggered by monsoon rains in eastern Myanmar rose to at least 34, an official said Saturday, as emergency workers continued a desperate [...]
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Donald Trump’s ‘real threat’ of Vietnam tariffs sends ripples of anxiety through Southeast Asian nation
Steven Yang had been considering moving his mattress factory from China’s manufacturing heartland of Guangdong to Vietnam for some years, because despite increasing the [...]
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