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India explores rare-earth deal with Myanmar after Chinese curb
India is working to obtain rare-earth samples from Myanmar with the assistance of a powerful rebel group, according to four people familiar with the matter, as it seeks alternative supplies of a strategic resource tightly controlled by...
India explores rare-earth deal with Myanmar rebels after Chinese curbs
India is working to obtain rare-earth samples from Myanmar with the assistance of a powerful rebel group, according to four people familiar with the matter, as it seeks alternative supplies of a strategic resource tightly controlled by China....

Rakhine State traders want border pass for Bangladesh; US imposes sanctions on scam centers in Myanmar
Rakhine State traders want border pass for Bangladesh Traders in Maungdaw Township of Arakan State told DVB that the Arakan Army (AA) should issue temporary border passes to allow travel into Bangladesh, as it has into India’s Mizoram State. The...

Myanmar Military News Updates – Sep 06, 2025 Evening
Myanmar Military News Updates – Sep 06, 2025 Evening 🚩🚩 1. Thirty-Five Junta Soldiers Killed in Short-Range Missile Attacks on Chauk and Sale Bases September 6 According to the Thinganet Saikphyu Revolutionary Force Drone Unit of Magway’s Pa Ka...

Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Sep 06, 2025 Evening
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Sep 06, 2025 Evening 📌📌 1. Arakan Army met with Commander-in-Chief Tun Myat Naing, says Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s son September 6 The Arakan Army held an online meeting with Commander-in-Chief General Tun Myat Naing,...

World : Top News Headlines In Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, The Philippines, Singapore & Vietnam: Sept 10, 2025
CAMBODIA 1. INDIAN BUSINESS GROUP EYE CAMBODIAN AGRI INDUSTRY -- FRESH NEWS An Indian business group is exploring collaborations in the agro industries in Cambodia. Importing Cambodian cashew nuts, exporting buffalo meat to the Kingdom and...

Myanmar Junta Retakes Magwe Gateway to Southern Yaw and Ordnance Factory
Myanmar’s military regime has regained control of a strategic outpost guarding the approach to Ordnance Factory No 24 (KaPaSa 24), some 16 kilometers southwest of Pauk town in Magwe Region, according to resistance sources. The Pone Taung Alel Nat...

US Targets Billion-Dollar Scam Networks in Myanmar, Cambodia
The US Treasury has imposed “multiple actions” including sanctions on about 20 companies and individuals to counter cyber scam operations in Myanmar and Cambodia that have targeted Americans and people in many other countries. The move, announced...

China-linked Mustang Panda deploys advanced SnakeDisk USB worm
China-linked Mustang Panda deploys advanced SnakeDisk USB worm China-linked APT group Mustang Panda has been spotted using a new USB worm called SnakeDisk along with a new version of known malware China-linked APT group Mustang Panda (aka...

US Government Announces New Sanctions on Scam Networks in Myanmar, Cambodia
The U.S. government has sanctioned 19 companies and individuals in Myanmar and Cambodia for their involvement in a multibillion-dollar global scam industry that it accused of stealing “billions of dollars from Americans using forced labor and...

Pace Digitek gets SEBI nod to raise ₹900 crore to expand energy business
Image for representation only. NEW DELHI: Pace Digitek, a telecom solutions provider, has got a nod from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to raise as much as ₹900 crore from the initial public offer (IPO) this year to boost...

US sanctions Myanmar and Cambodia scam kingpins
Sanctioned individuals and entities linked to human trafficking and tens of billions of dollars in losses PUBLISHED : 9 Sep 2025 at 17:01 WASHINGTON - The United States has imposed sanctions on cyber scam operators in Myanmar and Cambodia, a...

A Limited Lifeline: Russia’s Role in China’s Energy Security
Executive Summary Russia’s capacity to serve as a significant energy lifeline for China in a major conflict is fundamentally constrained by underdeveloped infrastructure and divergent long-term energy priorities, as Russia seeks new fossil fuel...

Why is Thailand granting Myanmar refugees working rights?
The Thai government recently lifted a decades-long ban on working rights for long-term refugees from Myanmar who live in Thailand in a string of nine camps just near the border between the two countries. Some have been there since the 1980s. The...

Why Myanmar’s Future Depends on Healing Its Scarred Youth
By Yin Nwe Ko It was already precisely 4:45 am before dawn on 11 July when I finished reading (U) Khin Maung Myint’s short essay in The Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper. Something in my mind compelled me irresistibly to write another text...

Humanoid kings: Multiple miseries of discounted peoples – Part 2
Statistics hardly lie, especially those not crooked off the Nigerian laboratories! On the continental level, the country ranked 33 out of 54 African nations on the 2024 Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) platform, a score which has been...

Economic Data Helps Explain a Pattern of Violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya Minority
In 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees, part of Myanmar’s Muslim minority, crossed the country’s northern border into Bangladesh, fleeing widespread state violence in their home state of Rakhine. The mass exodus captured the world's...

Why is Thailand allowing Myanmar refugees working rights?
The Thai government recently lifted a decades-long ban on working rights for long-term refugees from Myanmar who have been living in a string of nine camps just across the border in Thailand, some dating back to the 1980s. The move comes as the...

Interpol seizes drugs across 18 countries
The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL), in one of its biggest worldwide operations against drug trafficking, made a massive seizure of synthetic drugs valued at $ 6.5 billion, the global crime policing body said on Tuesday. The...

Manipur: Naga bodies enforce ‘trade embargo’ against India-Myanmar border fencing, FMR scrapping
Imphal, September 9 (IANS) Manipur’s apex Naga organisation, United Naga Council (UNC), on Monday enforced a “trade embargo” in all Naga people inhabited areas in protest against the fencing along the India-Myanmar border and the scrapping of the...