Myanmar plunges deeper into economic crisis
After nearly two years of military rule, Myanmar remains trapped in conflict, facing increasing political instability and a growing humanitarian crisis. While businesses and the labour market had already been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, post-coup instability has done even more damage to…#myanmar #centralbankofmyanmar #singapore #hongkong #theinsein #kachinstate #rakhinestate #thailand #sagaing #magway (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Myanmar Junta Stops Issuing Passports
Myanmar’s military regime has suspended issuing passports since last week, dismaying many job seekers planning to work overseas away from the social and economic turmoil in Myanmar. Labor rights activists say that the junta’s move is politically motivated. The regime suspended issuing passports in…#myanmar #peoplesdefenseforces #dawthuzarmaung #malaysia #unitednations #thailand #korea #umoejoe #maesot #jointactioncommittee (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Myanmar ’s Russia reliance a dangerous double-edged sword
CHIANG MAI – When Myanmar’s military regime drops bombs and launches air strikes on civilian populations, a rising component of its intensifying war against anti-coup and ethnic rebel groups, the aerial assaults owe largely to Russia. In recent months, Myanmar’s Air Force has used Russia-made…#myanmar #airforce #yak130 #russian #kamov #sagaing #sukhoi #sac #moscow #ukraine (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The World Ignores Myanmar ’s Plight at Its Peril
At the end of a conversation with a Ukrainian official a few months after Russia’s invasion, I asked what her greatest worry was. She replied without hesitation: “That we will be forgotten.” That will sound only too familiar to the opponents of a brutal regime thousands of kilometers away, in…#myanmar #southeastasias #minaung #minaunghlaing #suukyi #muslim #suukyis #unitednations #cambodian #praksokhonn (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Philippine authorities rescue alleged victims of'Crypto Trafficking Ring' where the victims would have worked in call centers to scam people on social media …
Philippine authorities say that they have rescued alleged victims of a “crypto trafficking ring” who were recruited to work in a call center in Cambodia and scam people out of their cryptocurrencies. The authorities are also investigating government employees who may have assisted crypto…#philippine #cambodia #tceu #bureauofimmigration #phnompenh #tansingco #danasandoval #myanmar #propublica #fbi (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
JPMorgan Chase Claims Deception by Founder of College Financial Planning Company
JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, has made a shocking claim that it was deceived by the founder of a college financial planning company called Frank, which they had acquired for $175 million in September 2021. In a lawsuit, the bank stated that the founder, Charlie Javice, had…#jpmorganchase #charliejavice #frank #jpmorganchases #franks #thailand #myanmar #poverup #whartonschool #goldmansachs (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nobel laureate Maria Ressa ’s acquittal is a rare win for press freedom in Southeast Asia | Semafor
Press freedom is deteriorating across Southeast Asia. In the most recent World Press Freedom Index, released by not-for-profit organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), three Southeast Asian countries — Myanmar, Vietnam, and Laos — ranked among the worst for press freedom on the list of 180…#southeastasia #philippines #myanmar #rsf #laos #southeastasian #vietnam #humanrightswatch (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Indonesia Tells Myanmar to Let ‘Qualified People’ Run Government
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Source: Reuters: Health - January 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Israel's Cognyte won tender to sell intercept spyware to Myanmar before coup -documents By Reuters
Israel's Cognyte Software Ltd won a tender to sell intercept spyware to a Myanmar state-backed telecommunications firm a month before the Asian nation's February 2021 military coup, according to documents reviewed by Reuters. The deal was made even though Israel has claimed it stopped defence…#unitednations #eitaymack #suukyi #myanmar #mpt #sumitomocorp #israeli #meta #kenya #singapore (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
From Ukraine to Syria to Myanmar, It ’s a World of Refugees
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Source: Reuters: Health - January 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pakistan seeks change to U.S. world finance control as Cuba leads U.N. bloc
Pakistan's envoy to the United Nations has expressed the need to establish alternatives to the current U.S.-dominated global financial system as he handed over the chair of a massive bloc of developing nations to Cuba. Speaking to a small group of journalists ahead of the Group of 77, or G77,…#statedepartment #nedprice #latinamerica #unitednations #african #iran #zimbabwe #pakistani #myanmar #globalsouth (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Thais Nab $50m off Myanmar Crony, Avoid Army Chief ’s Assets
Thai police have seized assets worth about $50 million since the arrest of a Burmese tycoon for drug trafficking late last year. The arrest of Tun Min Latt in Bangkok also exposed his close links to Myanmar’s senior general Min Aung Hlaing and two of his adult children. Tun Min Latt Tun Min Latt…#matthewsmith #avoidarmy #suukyi #belle #mullchipcurbs #tunminlatts #aungpyaesone #thailand #jimpollard #unitednations (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
You don ’t want to know where your shrimp comes from
If you rang in the new year with some shrimp cocktail in hand, you weren’t alone. Shrimp is the most popular seafood among Americans, with industry groups reporting that we eat about five pounds of shrimp each year, per person. We hear a lot about the negative effects of industrial animal…#virginia #kevinbales #wegmans #burma #thailand #modernslavery #sophie #cellmeat #singapore #southkoreas (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Big Tech transparency reports are a big mess
There’s just one problem: Transparency reports aren’t all that transparent, according to a new analysis by academics Aleksandra Urman at the University of Zurich and Mykola Makhortykh at the University of Bern. Transparency reports are meant to act as ways to keep tech platforms honest, with…#ethiopia #google #reddit #universityofzurich #googledocs #makhortykh #myanmar #transparencyreports #tiktok #twitter (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Indonesia to set up office of ASEAN special envoy on Myanmar
JAKARTA -- Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Wednesday said she will head an office that the country is establishing to spearhead how ASEAN deals with the crisis in Myanmar. Indonesia this year holds the rotating chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.#retnomarsudi #indonesian #asean #indonesia #myanmar #jakarta (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
