Malaysia Sun4d
Agoda's Temple Trail: Discover Southeast Asia's Iconic Spiritual Marvels
Digital travel platformAgoda shares a list of must-visit temples across Southeast Asia. As the year begins, it's an ideal ...
The New Zealand Herald21d
Borrowers bet on big interest rate cuts, as popularity of floating rates surges
Nearly half (47%) of the new mortgage debt issued by banks in November was put on floating mortgage rates – by far the highest portion since at least 2021, when the Reserve Bank of New Zealand ...
The Irrawaddy23d
Who Will Be Myanmar’s Kingmaker?
In post-independence Myanmar, the KNU came close to seizing state power when its troops reached the doorstep of Yangon in the 1950s. Now, EROs control more than half of the country and this is ...
Voice of America24d
Chinese actor’s abduction to Myanmar sign of growing diversity of scams
The recent abduction of a Chinese TV actor to Myanmar and his subsequent release is shedding new light on the lengths to which human traffickers operating online scam centers in the war-torn ...
MLB24d
That time San Diego nearly had a floating ballpark
The floating design was proposed by Boyle Engineering, a local architectural firm, to then-Chargers owner Barron Hilton. Head architect Stanley French, who would later also pitch the idea of the San ...
Eos24d
Another tailings landslide in Hpakant, Myanmar
Landslides in the jade mining area of Hpakant in Myanmar have been a regular theme of this blog over the years. This is a mining area on an epic scale, but it is also a true wild west, with poor ...
scmp.com24d
‘Scam City is growing’: how Myanmar’s cyber fraud hubs outfox efforts to shut them down
Scam factories threaded along the Myanmar border with Thailand have been thrust back under the spotlight after the rescue of a Chinese actor who says he was duped by a fake casting call into ...
The Conversation24d
From Myanmar to Gaza, Ukraine to Sudan – 2024 was another grim year, according to our mass atrocity index
Collin J. Meisel receives funding from the U.S. government, but the results and views expressed here are his own and do not represent the views of the USG. With major conflicts in Africa, the ...
Associated Press24d
A landslide in a Myanmar jade mining area kills at least 12 and leaves many missing
The accident occurred early Monday in Kachin state’s Hpakant township, a remote mountainous region at the center of the lucrative jade mining industry, about 950 kilometers (600 miles) north of ...
Al Jazeera English27d
Myanmar’s rebels liberate territory – administrating it is the next battle
Myanmar – Thaw Hti was a tiny speck amid a march of hundreds of thousands that snaked its way through the streets of Yangon in 2021, demanding a return to democracy after the Myanmar military ...
Al Jazeera English27d
At least 40 killed in Myanmar military air attack in Rakhine State, UN says
A man stands near a burning house at the site of an attack carried out by Myanmar's military on Ramree island in western Rakhine State [Handout/Arakan Army via AFP] Published On 11 Jan 202511 Jan ...
Reuters27d
Myanmar military air strike kills dozens in Rakhine village, UN says
Jan 11 (Reuters) - Dozens of people were killed in an air strike by Myanmar's military government in the western state of Rakhine this week, the United Nations said, as the Southeast Asia nation's ...