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International

UK, US sanction South-east Asian scam networks exploiting trafficked workers

The Myanmar junta has touted elections as a way to end the conflict and offered cash rewards to opposition fighters willing to lay down their arms ahead of the vote.
ASEAN Business

Myanmar junta sets Dec 28 poll date despite raging civil war

Former general Myint Swe (pictured) was named Myanmar’s acting president in 2021, when the military deposed the democratic government of Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup, sparking a civil war.
ASEAN Business

Myanmar’s junta-picked figurehead president dies

Asean wants Myanmar to honour a “five-point consensus” peace plan its junta agreed to in 2021.
International

Asean agrees Myanmar election is not a priority, Malaysia says

Victims of scam centres who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar, stuck in limbo at a compound inside the KK Park, a fraud factory, Myawaddy, Myanmar, Feb 26, 2025.
International

Visa’s 24/7 war room takes on global cybercriminals

Myanmar has been struggling with a civil war, stinging inflation and a shortage of US dollars since the military seized power in 2021 February.
International

Myanmar recovery dented by devastating quake, World Bank says

Inside China’s quiet reboot in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar
ASEAN Business

Inside China’s quiet reboot in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar

The truce has been extended before, although conflict monitors say fighting has continued, including regular junta airstrikes.
International

Malaysia calls for Myanmar truce extension

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing led a military coup in 2021 overthrowing Myanmar’s brief experiment with democracy and plunging the nation into civil war.
International

Time ripe for talks between Myanmar junta and ousted government

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing led a military coup in 2021 overthrowing Myanmar’s brief experiment with democracy and plunging the nation into civil war.
ASEAN Business

Myanmar junta chief meets China’s Xi for first time: state media

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