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Seafood Expo Asia Leveraging Business Matchmaking Program, Strategic Location and More to Drive Success
Trade Show Executive - Illinois
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August 14, 2025
SINGAPORE — Diversified’s Seafood Expo Asia will take place Sept. 10-12 at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre. Trade Show Executive (TSE) spoke with Wynter Courmont, Vice President, Seafood, at Diversified, about its tailored business...
Desperate Myanmar villagers scavenge for food as hunger bites
Digital Journal
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August 15, 2025
People flee from a village after fighting erupts in Myanmar's western Rakhine State, which is seeing a dramatic rise in hunger amid aid cuts - Copyright AFP/File STR People in western Myanmar have been driven to scavenging for bamboo shoots, as...
World : Top News Headlines In Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam: Aug 15, 2025
Bernama
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August 15, 2025
CAMBODIA 1.CHINESE INVESTORS EYE TIMBER, TEXTILE SECTORS -- AGENCE KAMPUCHEA PRESSE Chinese companies are exploring investment potential in Cambodia's timber plantation and textile manufacturing sectors. A business delegation from Beijing City and...
Myanmar celebrates 2025 International Youth Day
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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August 12, 2025
August 13, 2025 Myanmar News Agency 18 Union Minister Jeng Phang Naw Taung delivers a speech at the International Youth Day 2025 ceremony in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. A ceremony to mark the International Youth Day 2025 took place at Hotel Max in Nay...
Myanmar seizes over 66.6 tons of illegal timbers, arrests 29 offenders
Xinhua News Agency
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YANGON, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar authorities have seized over 66.6 tons of illegal timbers across the country during a three-day operation, the state-run daily Myanma Alinn reported on Wednesday. From Aug. 8 to Aug. 10, the confiscated timber...
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 13, 2025 Morning
MoeMaKa
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August 13, 2025
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 13, 2025 Morning 📌📌 1. Expansion of Cross-Border Criminal Activities in Myanmar Following the Unlawful Military Coup Attempt August 12 Radio NUG On August 11, at an open meeting of the United Nations Security...
Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 13, 2025 Morning
MoeMaKa
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August 13, 2025
Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 13, 2025 Morning 🚩🚩 1. Military Council’s 1,000-Troop Offensive in Myingyan: Both Sides Suffer Casualties, MBT Forced to Abandon Some Bases August 12 Radio NUG According to the Myingyan Black Tiger (MBT) force,...
Business News | Aggressive Competition from PSBs Will Be a Risk for Prolonged Slower Growth of Private Banks: Bernstein
Latestly
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August 13, 2025
New Delhi [India], August 13 (ANI): Aggressive competition from Public Sector Banks (PSBs) poses a significant risk of prolonged slower growth for Private Sector Banks (PVBs), according to a report by Bernstein. The report highlighted that PSBs...
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 12, 2025 Evening
MoeMaKa
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August 12, 2025
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 12, 2025 Evening 📌📌 1. CRPH sends message marking the 75th Karen Martyrs’ Day August 12 The Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) has sent a message to mark the 75th Karen Martyrs’ Day. In its...
Escape from Myanmar after agony of Thailand jobs trap
Star
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Human trafficking survivors Dennis Mosoti and Philip Ruto with HAART advocacy manager Winnie Muteru / NANCY WAINAINA What began as a promising journey toward better livelihoods ended in trauma and near-death experiences for two young Kenyan men...
Myanmar refugees on the brink as funding cuts bite: ‘I feel so anxious’
South China Morning Post
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August 13, 2025
On the first day of every month, refugees in camps along the Thailand-Myanmar border would usually receive a top-up of credits to their digital food cards before making a beeline for food-card shops to stock up on groceries. On August 1, however,...
Wang Yi calls for deepening China-Myanmar Community with shared future
CGTN
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Myanmar's Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Than Swe in Anning, Yunnan Province, on Thursday. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said this...
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...
Myanmar hilsa targets Indian market
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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August 12, 2025
This image captures the commercially valued Myanmar hilsa in the international market. Myanmar’s Fisheries Department stated that India is likely to bring in a large volume of Myanmar’s hilsa. Myanmar’s hilsa is primarily exported to India,...
Economic Opportunism
The Nation
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August 13, 2025
Although temporary for now, the US tariffs on Indian products present a rare opening for Pakistani exporters to capture market share vacated by suddenly uncompetitive Indian goods. The 50% tariff on some food items, a segment where Pakistan...
Chinese FM calls for deepening China-Myanmar Community with shared future
China Internet Information Center
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KUNMING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Myanmar's Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Than Swe in Anning, Yunnan Province, on Thursday. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China...
Meta, Mankind's Worst Company, Built a Pedophile AI Chatbot
Paste
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Mark Zuckerberg is in the top 0.1 percent of the top 0.1 percent of civil society’s biggest enemies this century. Meta, which used to be called Facebook before Zuckerberg thought NFTs were the future, is already the author of a genocide in Myanmar...
Africa and Asia face rising hunger as giant grain traders and food corporations rake in profits
World Socialist Web Site
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August 14, 2025
While the world’s media bring terrible images of hungry Palestinians in Gaza to our screens—facing starvation due to Israel’s war of annihilation—rising levels of hunger in Africa and Asia go virtually unreported. This year’s The State of Food...
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Myanmar’s Rakhine faces rising hunger amid US aid reductions and civil war blockades
Firstpost
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August 12, 2025
The UN’s World Food Programme has warned of a “dramatic rise in hunger” in Myanmar’s conflict-hit Rakhine state after US aid cuts pushed by President Donald Trump. Blockades, ongoing fighting, and reduced international funding have left over half...
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...