Myanmar’s informal money-transfer network is providing a financial lifeline to families struggling with economic hardship while enabling migrants abroad to bypass banking channels controlled by the military-backed government. Known as the hundi
A shocking teenage honeypot scam in China has shed light on the perilous fate of thousands of Chinese migrant workers held captive by criminal gangs in Myanmar. The case centers on a
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In a sweeping cross-border law enforcement campaign, more than 5,400 Chinese nationals involved in telecom fraud in Myanmar’s Myawaddy region have been apprehended and repatriated to China, the Ministry of Public Security
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The United Nations said on Friday it fears that as many as 427 Rohingya refugees have perished in two separate shipwrecks off the coast of Myanmar earlier this month, marking what could
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Myanmar’s opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), has accused the country’s military leadership of committing serious human rights violations during a period of declared ceasefire following a devastating earthquake in
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The United States has imposed sweeping sanctions on a Myanmar-based militia and its leader for their alleged role in running cyber scam networks and trafficking operations that have defrauded Americans of billions
More Myanmar’s military junta has declared a three-week ceasefire in its ongoing civil war with ethnic rebel groups, marking a rare pause in the country’s violent conflict. The announcement came just a day
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For Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the leader of Myanmar’s military junta, March seemed like a month of triumph and renewal. After years of international isolation and civil conflict, Min Aung Hlaing
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The death toll from the catastrophic earthquake that struck Myanmar on Friday has reached nearly 3,000, as rescue teams race against time to find survivors amid the ruins. The powerful 7.9 magnitude
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Update: Myanmar’s military-led government has reported that the death toll from the devastating earthquake has risen to 1,002, with 2,376 others injured and 30 still missing. Officials warned that these numbers could
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India has repatriated 549 citizens who were lured into scam centers along the Myanmar-Thailand border under the false promise of high-paying IT jobs, the Ministry of External Affairs announced on Wednesday. The
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The United Nations has sounded the alarm over Myanmar’s escalating food security crisis, with an estimated one-third of the population facing acute hunger. UN human rights experts described the situation as “unprecedented,”
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Sitting in a bamboo shelter in the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees like Azizur Rehman are confronting a painful paradox. Once denounced for her silence during the
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has delivered a grave warning about the deteriorating human rights situation in Myanmar, describing it as one of the worst in the
More Myanmar’s military has intensified its attacks on civilians to unprecedented levels in the past year, resulting in the highest civilian death toll since the military coup four years ago, according to a
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U Tin Oo, owner of the Win Ngwe Toe grass broom business in Myanmar’s commercial hub Yangon, vows to sustain his business of making traditional brooms, which he thinks is a big
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