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Myanmar hilsa targets Indian market
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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August 12, 2025
This image captures the commercially valued Myanmar hilsa in the international market. Myanmar’s Fisheries Department stated that India is likely to bring in a large volume of Myanmar’s hilsa. Myanmar’s hilsa is primarily exported to India,...
Myanmar celebrates 2025 International Youth Day
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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August 12, 2025
August 13, 2025 Myanmar News Agency 18 Union Minister Jeng Phang Naw Taung delivers a speech at the International Youth Day 2025 ceremony in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. A ceremony to mark the International Youth Day 2025 took place at Hotel Max in Nay...
Myanmar to face defending champions Philippines in final group match
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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August 12, 2025
Myanmar women’s footballers are seen bravely. PHOTO: MFF The final day of Group B matches in the 2025 ASEAN Women’s Championship in Vietnam takes place today, with Myanmar facing defending champions the Philippines. Both Group B matches will kick...
Investigators record systematic torture on detainees at Myanmar detention facilities: UN report
New Age Bangladesh
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Agence France-Presse . Yangon, Myanmar 13 August, 2025, 13:15 United Nations investigators say that they have recorded ‘systematic’ torture in Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities including beatings, electric shocks and gang rape. Myanmar...
Can Myanmar’s 2025 Quake Data Predict the Next Big One?
Latestly
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August 13, 2025
Scientists say earthquake prediction is impossible but studying the 2025 Myanmar earthquake may help forecast when, and where, the next big tremor could strike.During the midday prayers on March 28, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central...
World Reuters Myanmar military chief calls for heightened security ahead of election
Yahoo News
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(Reuters) -Myanmar's military chief has called for increased security for political party members and candidates as a newly formed interim government proceeds with a planned election in December and January that has been dismissed in the West as a...
Statues of Gen Aung San Disappear as Myanmar Junta Gears for Election
The Irrawaddy
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August 13, 2025
The military regime removed a statue of Myanmar’s late independence hero General Aung San—the father of jailed civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi—in downtown Bago at midnight on Friday, residents told The Irrawaddy. Residents said they were not...
UN says Myanmar junta using ‘systematic’ torture, sexual violence in detention
Malay Mail
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August 13, 2025
YANGON, Aug 13 — UN investigators say they have recorded “systematic” torture in Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities including beatings, electric shocks and gang rape. Myanmar has been consumed by civil war since the military deposed the...
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Myanmar: Children among those tortured by security forces, says UN report
Firstpost
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August 12, 2025
Children were among those tortured, often detained as stand-ins for missing parents. Some torture resulted in death, according to the 16-page report released Tuesday read more United Nations investigators say they have uncovered extensive evidence...
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Myanmar’s Rakhine faces rising hunger amid US aid reductions and civil war blockades
Firstpost
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August 12, 2025
The UN’s World Food Programme has warned of a “dramatic rise in hunger” in Myanmar’s conflict-hit Rakhine state after US aid cuts pushed by President Donald Trump. Blockades, ongoing fighting, and reduced international funding have left over half...
Move to send peace mission to Myanmar
Daily Star
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August 12, 2025
Bangladesh, Malaysia, and several other Southeast Asian countries will send a joint peace mission to Myanmar in the coming weeks to advocate for peace and humanitarian aid for the Rohingya population and other communities in the country. To ensure...
Joint ASEAN team to visit Myanmar to push for peace: Malaysian PM
The Business Standard
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August 13, 2025
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has announced that a joint ASEAN delegation, coordinated by Malaysia's foreign minister alongside counterparts from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand, will visit Myanmar in the coming weeks in a bid to...
Myanmar region sees hunger rise after aid cutbacks
New Age Bangladesh
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Agence France-Presse . Yangon 13 August, 2025, 00:57 One of Myanmar’s most conflict-ravaged regions has witnessed a ‘dramatic rise in hunger’ after US aid cuts pushed by president Donald Trump during a punishing civil war, the World Food Programme...
Myanmar security forces involved in systematic torture, U.N. report says
Japan Times
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August 12, 2025
GENEVA – United Nations investigators said on Tuesday they have found evidence of systematic torture by Myanmar security forces and identified some of the most senior perpetrators. The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), formed...
Myanmar region sees 'dramatic' hunger rise after aid cutbacks
The Hindu
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August 12, 2025
One of Myanmar's most conflict-ravaged regions has witnessed a "dramatic rise in hunger" after U.S. aid cuts pushed by President Donald Trump during a punishing civil war, the World Food Programme said on Tuesday (August 12, 2025). Western Rakhine...
Ma Khaing Yin Mon: From business success to grassroots resistance in Myanmar
Global Voices
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August 13, 2025
Ma Khaing Yin Mon. Photo from Exile Hub, content partner of Global Voices. Exile Hub is one of Global Voices’ partners in Southeast Asia, emerging in response to the 2021 coup in Myanmar, focusing on empowering journalists and human rights...
Myanmar region sees ‘dramatic’ rise in hunger after aid cutbacks
The Straits Times
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August 12, 2025
Yangon - One of Myanmar’s most conflict-ravaged regions has witnessed a “dramatic rise in hunger” after US aid cuts pushed by President Donald Trump during a punishing civil war, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Aug 12. Western Rakhine state...
Myanmar: Rights investigators reveal ‘systematic torture’, sexual violence
UN News
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August 12, 2025
In its annual report released on Tuesday, the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) said it had made “important progress” documenting crimes and identifying those responsible, including commanders of security forces overseeing...
Myanmar army detaining two-year-olds as proxies for parents, witnesses tell UN
The Guardian
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August 12, 2025
Children as young as two years old have been detained by Myanmar’s military, often as proxies for their parents, and held in prison facilities where there is systematic torture, UN investigators have warned. The Independent Investigative Mechanism...
Myanmar security forces involved in systematic torture, including of children, UN report says
The Globe and Mail
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August 12, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar formed in 2018 to analyze evidence of serious violations of international law.Thein Zaw/The Associated Press United Nations investigators said on Tuesday they have...