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World : Top News Headlines In Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam: July 30, 2025
INDONESIA 1.PRABOWO PRAISES MALAYSIA’S PEACE BROKER ROLE IN CAMBODIA-THAILAND CONFLICT -- JAKARTA GLOBE President Prabowo Subianto praised Tuesday Malaysia’s peace broker role in the deadly border clash between ASEAN members Cambodia and Thailand....

Trump’s Surprise Overture To Myanmar
Following the coup, most western democracies led by the then US President Joe Biden and the EU, slapped tough sanctions on the generals and called for the restoration of democracy and respect for the people’s mandate. While the West withdrew,...

MoIP, India sign MoU for Myanmar’s digital ID pilot programme
The MoU signing event between the Ministry of Immigration and Population on pilot cooperation in Myanmar’s Digital Identity Programme in progress yesterday. A signing ceremony for the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on pilot cooperation in...

400 books on Myanmar and earthquake risk donated to Info Ministry libraries
Union Minister U Maung Maung Ohn accepts the donated books in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. A donation ceremony of books, Myanmar and Earthquakes, Earthquake Risk Reduction in Myanmar, written by Professor (Retd) Sayagyi Dr Thein, Head of the Geology...

DPM MoFA Union Minister receives UNHCR Representative in Myanmar
The UNHCR Representative in Myanmar calls on Deputy Premier MoFA Union Minister U Than Swe in Nay Pyi Taw. U Than Swe, Deputy Prime Minister and the Union Minister for Foreign Affairs, received Ms Noriko Takagi, UNHCR Representative in Myanmar,...

Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Jul 29, 2025 Evening
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Jul 29, 2025 Evening 📌📌 1. Experts from Various Sectors Contributing Ideas for Restructuring the National Unity Government July 29 According to U Nay Phone Latt, spokesperson for the Office of the Prime Minister,...

Myanmar Military News Updates – Jul 29, 2025 Evening
Myanmar Military News Updates – Jul 29, 2025 Evening 🚩🚩 1. Junta Forces Fired a Total of 274 Artillery Shells and Dropped 6 Bombs in Mu Township Villages July 29 According to the Karen National Union (KNU), in a single day on July 25, 2025, the...

Myanmar Regime Sets More Traps to Guarantee Election Win
Myanmar’s military regime on Monday promulgated a second amendment to the Political Parties Registration Law, allowing the dissolution of any party accused of electoral fraud or unlawful conduct during voting. Observers say the move is designed to...

The Smell of Myanmar and All of Its Juxtapositions
LONDON — It has been almost 10 years since the writer and editor Kathleen Baird-Murray Skyped with the perfumer Frank Voelkl — the nose behind Le Labo’s Santal 33, Phlur’s Father Figure and Glossier’s You — about creating her own fragrance brand....

Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Jul 29, 2025 Morning
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Jul 29, 2025 Morning 📌📌 1. Flooding in Tachileik and Southern Shan State Causes Casualties July 28 Radio NUG According to local reports, flooding has occurred in Tachileik, located in eastern Shan State, as a result...

Myanmar Military News Updates – Jul 29, 2025 Morning
Myanmar Military News Updates – Jul 29, 2025 Morning 🚩🚩 1. Three Military Vehicles, Including a Jummer, Hit by Landmine Attack in Monywa July 28 Radio NUG The Golden Peacock Attack Force has announced that it carried out a landmine attack on a...
Myanmar holds post-quake technical forum to strengthen reconstruction
YANGON, July 29 (Xinhua) -- A two-day Post-Earthquake Technical Forum opened on Monday in Nay Pyi Taw to review post-earthquake construction and renovation processes and prepare for potential technical challenges in the future, the state-owned...

Airstrikes in Myanmar Continue To Spread Fear, Devastate Lives
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Myanmar Navy fleet attacked on Irrawaddy River in Kachin State’s Shwegu
Residents in Kachin State told DVB that the Myanmar Navy fleet travelling upstream on the Irrawaddy River was attacked by resistance forces in Shwegu Township on Sunday. Shwegu is located 181 miles (291 km) south of the Kachin State capital...

In Rare Earth Talks, Another Troubling Sign of a US Pivot on Myanmar
If, as reports suggest, US President Donald Trump is interested in Myanmar’s rare earth deposits, he may have to make a phone call or two to Kachin leaders and ethnic armies based along the border with China. Make a deal with them and that will no...

Why Myanmar Junta’s Face-Saving Counteroffensive is Doomed to Fail
Mobye, in Southern Shan State, is one of several towns recaptured by Myanmar junta counteroffensives this month. A strategic gateway linking Karenni State on the eastern border with the junta’s capital, Naypyitaw, Mobye had been held by the...

Russian Steel Mill in Myanmar to Be Up and Running ‘Soon’
A Russian-backed steel plant in southern Shan State will be fully operational by November next year, the junta claimed last Saturday. The pledge came at a ceremony marking the trial run of the factory’s air compressor that was attended by Industry...

Myanmar Military News Updates – Jul 28, 2025 Evening
Myanmar Military News Updates – Jul 28, 2025 Evening 🚩🚩 1. NUG’s Ministry of Human Rights Releases Detailed Statement on Junta’s Drone Bombing of IDP Site at Kyaukgyi Hill Pagoda near Myatshu Village July 28 On July 26 at 10:45 AM, the terrorist...

Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Jul 28, 2025 Evening
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Jul 28, 2025 Evening 📌📌 1. Magway Federal Unit Parliament Presents and Discusses First Draft of Interim Plan July 28 On July 27, 2025, at 1:00 PM, the Magway Federal Unit Parliament convened a meeting via Zoom to...

Drugs worth Rs 28 cr seized in Assam, Mizoram; Myanmar nationals among 4 held
Guwahati: In a significant breakthrough in the ongoing crackdown on drug trafficking in the North Eastern Region (NER), the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized drugs worth approximately Rs 28 crore in two separate operations...