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Myanmar region sees hunger rise after aid cutbacks
New Age Bangladesh
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Agence France-Presse . Yangon 13 August, 2025, 00:57 One of Myanmar’s most conflict-ravaged regions has witnessed a ‘dramatic rise in hunger’ after US aid cuts pushed by president Donald Trump during a punishing civil war, the World Food Programme...
Myanmar region sees 'dramatic' hunger rise after aid cutbacks
The Hindu
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August 12, 2025
One of Myanmar's most conflict-ravaged regions has witnessed a "dramatic rise in hunger" after U.S. aid cuts pushed by President Donald Trump during a punishing civil war, the World Food Programme said on Tuesday (August 12, 2025). Western Rakhine...
Myanmar region sees ‘dramatic’ rise in hunger after aid cutbacks
The Straits Times
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August 12, 2025
Yangon - One of Myanmar’s most conflict-ravaged regions has witnessed a “dramatic rise in hunger” after US aid cuts pushed by President Donald Trump during a punishing civil war, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Aug 12. Western Rakhine state...
Myanmar: Rights investigators reveal ‘systematic torture’, sexual violence
UN News
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August 12, 2025
In its annual report released on Tuesday, the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) said it had made “important progress” documenting crimes and identifying those responsible, including commanders of security forces overseeing...
Myanmar army detaining two-year-olds as proxies for parents, witnesses tell UN
The Guardian
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August 12, 2025
Children as young as two years old have been detained by Myanmar’s military, often as proxies for their parents, and held in prison facilities where there is systematic torture, UN investigators have warned. The Independent Investigative Mechanism...
Norfund-backed Yoma Bank partners with MoneyGram to offer remittances for Myanmar’s migrant workers
ScandAsia
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August 14, 2025
Yoma Bank, part-owned by Norway’s development finance institution Norfund, has partnered with global payments network MoneyGram to enable near-instant cross-border money transfers to Yoma Bank accounts across Myanmar. The service allows customers...
Pride of Myanmar Products and Global Connection Business Forum showcases local goods and...
Eleven Myanmar
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The Pride of Myanmar Products and Global Connection Business Forum is being held to showcase Myanmar products and global business connections at the Grand Ballroom of the Eravati Sule Grand Yangon Hotel in Yangon for three days from August 9 to...
Myanmar security forces involved in systematic torture: UN
BDNews24
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United Nations investigators said on Tuesday they have found evidence of systematic torture by Myanmar security forces and identified some of the senior perpetrators. The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), formed in 2018 to...
Myanmar security forces involved in systematic torture: UN report
Times LIVE
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The findings in the report covering a one year through to June 30 were based on information from more than 1,300 sources, including hundreds of eyewitness testimonies and forensic evidence, documents and photographs. The list of perpetrators...
Myanmar security forces involved in systematic torture, UN report says
The Gazette - Colorado
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -United Nations investigators said on Tuesday they have found evidence of systematic torture by Myanmar security forces and identified some of the senior perpetrators. The Independent Investigative Mechanism for...
Trump’s foreign aid cuts have ‘strengthened tyranny’ in Myanmar, rights groups say
The Independent (U.S.)
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August 14, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 12, 2025 Morning
MoeMaKa
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August 12, 2025
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 12, 2025 Morning 📌📌 1. KIO clarifies that peace talks were twice proposed by the terrorist military junta, not initiated by KIO — Lt-Gen Gun Maw August 11 Radio NUG Regarding the proposals for peace talks made...
Woes From Myanmar’s Catastrophic Civil War Spilling into Thailand
Asia Financial
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August 13, 2025
Thailand has endured a series of what the Chinese would call “black swan” events – unexpected traumas – that have clouded the country’s political and economic outlook this year. They include a huge earthquake in Myanmar in March, which caused the...
Who is Samir Hulileh, the businessman Israel wants to run Gaza?
The New Arab
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Israeli media have reported that the lobbying effort for Hulileh's appointment is being led by Ari Ben-Menashe, an Iranian-born former Israeli intelligence officer linked to the 1980s Iran-Contra affair. [Getty] In the tangled web of regional and...
Central Bank reduces bank cash reserve limitation to 3%
Eleven Myanmar
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The Central Bank of Myanmar announced on May 7 that it had reduced the limit on minium cash reservers need to be kept by banks down to 3 percent. The Central Bank's statement said that the minimum cash reserve was at at least 5 percent before...
Ahmedabad woman held for luring job-seekers to Bangkok, trapping them into committing cyber fraud
The Hans India
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August 18, 2025
The Cyber Crime Branch of Ahmedabad has arrested Kinjal Shah, who allegedly lured a man to Bangkok under the pretext of a job, only to involve him in a cyber fraud racket. Kinjal Shah, who runs a visa office in Vadodara, was reportedly in contact...
Gunman attacks Director of China-Myanmar trade zone
Eleven Myanmar
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An unidentified gunman attacked Min Aung Aye, Director of Muse 105-mile China-Myanmar trade zone on Union Road in Mongyu Village inside the Muse 105-mile trade zone on the evening of May 11 while he was on the way home to Muse, sources said. The...
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 11, 2025 Evening
MoeMaKa
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August 11, 2025
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 11, 2025 Evening 📌📌 1. “We will fight together and win together,” says Union Minister Dr. Zaw Wai Soe August 11 Union Minister for Education and Health, Dr. Zaw Wai Soe, stated that they will fight together and...
World : Top News Headlines In Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam : Aug 14, 2025
Bernama
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August 14, 2025
CAMBODIA 1. JAPAN-FUNDED TAKHMAU WATER TREATMENT PLANT -- AGENCE KAMPUCHEA PRESSE The Japan-financed Takhmau Water Treatment Plant, situated in Takhmau City, Kandal Province, is scheduled to be inaugurated today. Built by a Japanese consortium, it...
Mekong Foreign Ministers meet in China’s city of peace and harmony
Friends of Socialist China
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August 18, 2025
On August 15, 2025, the tenth Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held in Anning, in China’s southwestern Yunnan province. The LMC is a cooperation mechanism, founded a decade ago, that groups China with five of its...