Crowds are returning to the streets of Myanmar to celebrate traditional festivities. Our CNA team takes a look at this renewed public life in Yangon and what it could mean for the country’s ongoing …
Myanmar seizes over 82 tonnes of illegal timber in one week
YANGON: Myanmar authorities have seized over 82 tonnes of illegal timber across the country in a week, the state-run daily The Mirror reported on Friday (Nov 7) …
What a leaked transcript reveals about China’s muscular statecraft
Jason Tower, an expert on China and Myanmar, thinks it likely that the Wa produced the transcript and shared it with rebel allies, who leaked it more widely. Verbatim accounts of Chinese diplomatic …
Indians who fled a Myanmar cyberscam center are being flown home from Thailand
India is repatriating the first batch of hundreds of its nationals who last month fled to Thailand from Myanmar, where most had been working at a notorious center for online scams.
China sentences 5 to death for building, running criminal gang fraud centers in Myanmar’s lawless borderlands
Chinese and Thai authorities have tried to crack down on violent criminal gangs running vast fraud operations in Myanmar’s borderlands.
China sentences infamous Myanmar scam mafia members to death
A Chinese court has sentenced five top members of an infamous Myanmar mafia to death as Beijing continues its crackdown on scam operations in South East Asia. In all 21 Bai family members and …
Why many in raided Myanmar scam hub chose US$1,400 pay over ‘chance to escape’
Several scammers stayed put to pursue new opportunities in the black market following the sweep of KK Park, a sprawling fraud factory.
Myanmar scam hub sweep triggers fraudster recruitment rush
Recent raids on one of Myanmar’s most notorious internet scam hubs sparked a recruitment rush as fleeing workers scrambled to enlist at nearby fraud factories, experts and insiders told AFP. Online …
Most 5PC objectives met but civil war in Myanmar needs to end, Dewan Rakyat told
Most of the objectives under Asean’s Five-Point Consensus (5PC) for Myanmar have been fulfilled, but the civil war in the country remains a problem, says Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan.
Myanmar’s rush of bridge openings propped up by Japan, South Korea
YANGON — A series of massive bridge projects in Myanmar backed by Japan and South Korea are being completed in succession, despite the yearslong turmoil roiling the war-torn country.