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Thai soldiers stand guard overlooking the Moei river on the Thai side near the Tak border checkpoint with Myanmar in Thailand’s Mae Sot district. File. | Photo Credit: AFP Myanmar and Thailand’s busiest trade crossing was closed for a second day on Tuesday (August 19, 2025) after the military junta pledged to throttle black markets…
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Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it seized power from an elected civilian government. The political situation remains tense with no negotiation space in sight between the military government and the major opposition groups fighting against it. The four years after…
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Naypyidaw: An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 on the Richter Scale jolted Myanmar in the early hours of Friday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. According to NCS, the magnitude 4.8 earthquake occurred at 12:53 am (IST) at a depth of 106 kilometres. It was recorded at Latitude 24.68 N and Longitude 94.87 E. …
New Delhi: The leader of a Myanmar-based militant group was among five people who were arrested by the Mizoram Police in what they said was one of the largest arms bust in the northeast state. The weapons were for trade between the Myanmar-based militant group Chin National Front (CNF) and the United People’s Democratic Front,…
A file photo of the Azerbaijan Airlines crash on December 25 in which 38 people onboard were killed | Photo Credit: Reuters Instances of GPS interference on passenger aircraft, including ‘spoofing’ with false signals, are on the rise over conflict zones globally, including on India’s borders with Pakistan, which are among the top sites for…
Soldiers from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) patrol on a vehicle. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Myanmar ethnic rebel group said on Tuesday (December 17, 2024) it had recaptured its headquarters from the Myanmar military, almost 30 years after it was forced out. Karen National Union (KNU) fighters had seized Manerplaw on the…
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Maungdaw town lies on the Naf river which separates Myanmar from Bangladesh and is home to many members of the persecuted Rohingya minority. File. | Photo Credit: AP A Myanmar ethnic armed group has claimed complete control of a key region along the Bangladesh border, piling further pressure on the junta battling opponents elsewhere across…
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Proposed site of shelter home at Holenphai village, Tengnoupal, Manipur, on March 26, 2023 Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi: Five weeks before the Manipur ethnic clashes began in May 2023, a cabinet subcommittee comprising ministers from the three major communities visited three villages to make an assessment of the situation on “identification of Myanmarese immigrants/refugees”, reports submitted by…
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At least 650 children have been killed or wounded in violence in the country this year. | Photo Credit: Reuters Children made up nearly 40% of the more than 3.4 million people in Myanmar displaced by civil war and climate change-driven extreme weather, the United Nations agency for children said Thursday (November 21, 2024). Myanmar…
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Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma addresses the Mizo diaspora in Indianapolis on September 4 New Delhi: Comments made by Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma at an event in the US in September have been deliberately taken out of context, and video clips of his address have been shared without showing the full context of what he said,…