Myanmar and Taiwan activists awarded Sweden’s Right Livelihood Prize

Civic technologist and former Taiwan digital minister, Audrey Tang, has been presented the 2025 Right Livelihood award. Photo: Right Livelihood. The 2025 Right Livelihood Award has been presented to activists from Myanmar and Taiwan as well as...

Business News | Helping Small Businesses in Southeast Asia Tap into AI: ASEAN Foundation and AVPN Introduce Local Partners for AIM ASEAN Programme

PRNewswire Singapore, October 3: Small businesses are the backbone of Southeast Asia's economy. But in today's fast-changing digital landscape, many Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) risk being left behind, especially when it comes to...

Pastor in Thailand uses fair trade to intervene to end sex trafficking, serve orphans

Visit to Thailand cements members' commitment Claudia Hamilton displays some of the Thai crafts she sells. By Mary Stamp Claudia Hamilton is coordinating the booth for the Prachakittisuk Orphanage at the Jubilee International Fair Trade...

Helping Small Businesses in Southeast Asia Tap into AI: ASEAN Foundation and AVPN Introduce Local Partners for AIM ASEAN Programme

SINGAPORE, Oct. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Small businesses are the backbone of Southeast Asia's economy. But in today's fast-changing digital landscape, many Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) risk being left behind, especially when it...

Myanmar refugees now eligible for work

PUBLISHED : 3 Oct 2025 at 06:10 Myanmar nationals residing in refugee camps can now register for a permit that will allow them to work legally in the country, the Ministry of Labour announced. The move came after the cabinet on Aug 26 passed a...

Top News Headlines In Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam: Oct 3, 2025

CAMBODIA 1.KOREAN TRAINING FOR BUREAUCRATS -- FRESH NEWS About 30 government officials will participate in training programs organised by the Korea International Cooperation Agency this month. These programs will focus on enhancing the capacity of...

World : Top News Headlines In Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam: Oct 3, 2025

CAMBODIA 1.KOREAN TRAINING FOR BUREAUCRATS -- FRESH NEWS About 30 government officials will participate in training programs organised by the Korea International Cooperation Agency this month. These programs will focus on enhancing the capacity of...

EWEC Fair – Da Nang 2025 boosts regional trade, tourism, investment promotion

Da Nang (VNA) - The 2025 Eastern-Western Economic Corridor (EWEC) International Trade, Tourism, and Investment Fair – Da Nang 2025 is taking place in the central coastal city. The six-day fair, which opened on October 1 evening, features more than...

Myanmar marks Int'l Day of Older Persons in Nay Pyi Taw

YANGON, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar held a ceremony to mark the International Day of Older Persons on Wednesday in Nay Pyi Taw, state-owned daily The Mirror reported on Thursday. Speaking at the event, Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and...

Regime forces retake Shan State’s Kyaukme; Justice for Myanmar awarded ‘alternative Nobel Prize’

Regime forces retake northern Shan State’s Kyaukme Pro-regime media reported on Thursday that regime forces recovered 61 bodies of “terrorists” after recapturing northern Shan State’s Kyaukme town from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) on...

Myanmar Military News Updates – Oct 02, 2025 Evening

Myanmar Military News Updates – Oct 02, 2025 Evening 🚩🚩 1. Three Civilians Killed and Six, Including Children, Injured in Junta Airstrikes on Namatu and Mantong October 2 The PSLF/TNLA Information and Public Relations Department reported that...

Myanmar Junta Recaptures Kyaukme After 21-Day Offensive

The Myanmar military regime said Thursday it had regained full control of the district-level town of Kyaukme in northern Shan State from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), following a 21-day counteroffensive. Regime military columns...

Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Oct 02, 2025 Morning

Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Oct 02, 2025 Morning 📌📌 1. Over 500 Lakhs Awarded as Recognition Grants to CDM Education Staff in Khan U Township In Khan U Township, Shwebo District, Sagaing Region, the Township People’s Administration Committee...

Myanmar Military News Updates – Oct 02, 2025 Morning

Myanmar Military News Updates – Oct 02, 2025 Morning 🚩🚩 1. One civilian injured in Momeik due to Military Council airstrike PSLF/TNLA reported that one man was injured when the Military Council carried out an aerial bombing attack on Yet Htut Gyi...

India-Asean meet next week on trade pact review

Trade negotiators from India and 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will meet in Jakarta on Monday, just days ahead of a ministerial meet to advance the review of their goods trade agreement. The work on the review of the...

India-Asean officials to meet next week in Jakarta to resume goods trade pact review

New Delhi, Oct 2 (PTI) Trade negotiators from India and the 10-nation ASEAN bloc will meet in Jakarta from Monday to push forward the review of their goods trade pact, an official said. The official said that the work on the review of the...

Qatari Delegation Meets Myanmar Junta Ministers for Energy, Mining Talks

As Myanmar’s military regime tries to drum up foreign investment in its struggling energy sector, a Qatari delegation led by former defense minister and deputy prime minister Mohammed Al Attiyah met junta ministers in Naypyitaw on Tuesday to...

asia Myanmar's war-torn Rakhine faces a hunger catastrophe, aid groups say

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh — After Ajib Bahar's six-month-old son fell sick last year in Myanmar's war-torn Rakhine state, the 38-year-old Rohingya mother said she had no medicine or food to give him. The boy died in her arms. "My children cried all...

India and Japan: Why the perfect economic alliance is still underperforming on FDI

As countries go, Japan and India are studies in contrast. Japan is a small, modern, developed country. It is safe and clean, largely homogenous in language and ethnicity, with a population that is known to be orderly and civic minded. India, on...

Factory owner who dismissed 1,450 Myanmar migrant workers agrees to pay 10,000 baht each in...

The Myanmar Labour Attache Office has announced that the owner of Cal-Comp Electronics factory has been reached agreement with 1,450 Myanmar migrant workers to pay 10,000 baht indemnity for each worker in addition to severance pay. The Labour...