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Karen refugee suspected of the murder of his Thai employer, found hiding at refugee centre; both suspects detained for questioning.
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have launched a manhunt for a Myanmar national believed to have killed his co-worker after an argument at a scrap metal shop in Jalan 1/18B, Kampung Batu, Off Jalan Ipoh, here ...
Meta’s “playbook” has striking parallels with the notorious corporate strategy taken by the tobacco industry to protect its ...
When Bon Jovi released their hit single Livin’ on a Prayer in 1986, little did the pop-rock icons know that a Belfast-born ...
A Singapore court sentenced Indian-origin man Kavind Raj Kannan to over two years in jail and caning for his role in a fatal ...
Since the military coup in Myanmar in 2021, many Myanmar academics have left their home nation, driven by fear, repression, and the dismantling of the country’s education system.
Myanmar has a desperate past. After a coup in 1962, it suffered 49 years of military rule. Between 2011 and 2021, the army relinquished some power, and for a while that allowed Aung San Suu Kyi, a ...
The Irrawaddy River near Bhamo, in Kachin State, Myanmar. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Colegota China’s special envoy to Myanmar has reportedly urged two major ethnic armed groups to halt their ...
Myanmar’s military government has awarded its first offshore production sharing contract since seizing power in February 2021. State-owned Myanma Oil & Gas Enterprise (MOGE) under the nation’s ...
Two of the three men allegedly involved in the shooting and murder of an Australian man in Bali were later briefly held in ...
Heavy rain for nearly a week triggered flooding in northern and central Myanmar, impacting hundreds of people already reeling from ongoing civil war and a recent deadly earthquake. Extensive flooding ...