#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The job advertisement promised a fat salary in a modern metropolis. Fisher, a 27-year-old Ethiopian who had studied electrical engineering, convinced his father to sell the family farmland — where generations had grown mangoes, avocados and teff, an ancient grain — to pay…
#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In famine-stricken Sudan, soup kitchens that feed hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in a war zone have shut down. In Thailand, war refugees with life-threatening diseases have been turned away by hospitals and carted off on makeshift stretchers. In Ukraine, residents on…
#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The medical student was showering near his dormitory in the jungles of eastern Myanmar when he heard military jets flying overhead. Wearing only undershorts, he raced to a bomb shelter. But there, he faced another danger: a black snake. Grabbing a stick, he…
Myanmar-Thailand border – At a secret gathering above a cafe in a town on the Myanmar-Thailand border, Ko Aye examined the inside of an Android phone alongside 10 fellow defectors from Myanmar’s military and police forces. The trainer, an ex-captain in the Myanmar army, guided the group through the process…
Climate hazards helping to double the number of displaced people to 120 million, UNHCR reports. Climate change is helping to drive a rising refugee crisis, adding to the huge numbers already displaced by conflict, according to a United Nations report. Three-quarters of the world’s forcibly displaced people live in countries…
UNDP says without urgent action, 95 percent of the population will regress into survival mode. Myanmar‘s war-ravaged Rakhine state could face imminent famine according to a new United Nations report, which estimates that more than two million people could be at risk of starvation. “Rakhine’s economy has stopped functioning,” said…
Ninety-six Rohingya refugees, including seven children, are stranded on Sumatra island after escaping on a rickety boat. Six people have died as nearly 100 Rohingya landed by boat in Indonesia’s Aceh province in the latest wave of arrivals from Myanmar in recent days. Miftach Tjut Adek, chief of a local…
Myanmar – Scattered across the lush, rolling hills of southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region, rebel fighters stationed at checkpoints inspect cars and trucks traveling towards a nearby town still under the control of the Myanmar military – their adversary. While this is a familiar sight in the region, where the struggle…
Melbourne, Australia – Myanmar’s remote jungle hills may be a world away from sun-soaked Australia, but the two countries share an insidious bond – crystalline methamphetamine. Otherwise known as “ice” or “crystal meth”, crystalline methamphetamine is a highly addictive substance which has permeated Australia’s suburbs. The Australian Federal Police estimates…
Surprise call comes with the generals, who seized power in 2021, under major pressure from their opponents. Myanmar’s military coup leaders have urged their opponents to put down their weapons and start political dialogue, in a surprise move that was swiftly rejected. The State Administration Council (SAC), as the military…
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