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World : Top News Headlines In Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam: July 4, 2025
Bernama
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July 4, 2025
INDONESIA 1.INDONESIA AIMS FOR MORE COMPETITIVE US TARIFFS THAN VIETNAM’S 20 PCT DEAL -- JAKARTA GLOBE The Indonesian government is seeking lower import tariffs from the United States than those recently granted to Vietnam, in an effort to improve...
Fencing Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur gathers pace
Nagaland Post
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July 3, 2025
Survey of India team to help BRO finalise border alignment In spite of objections raised by various civil society organisations (CSOs), the Centre has stepped up work on fencing the Manipur sector of Indo-Myanmar border. New Delhi has also...
Arakan Army in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
The Kathmandu Post
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Since December 2024, the Arakan Army (AA) has been entrenching itself in the Rakhine state after the fall of the Western Regional Military Command at Ann Township in central Rakhine. As the military arm of the United League of Arakan (ULA), a...
Daw Kyu Kyu Hla, wife of the SAC Chairman, PM, attends Myanmar Women’s Day celebration 2025
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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July 3, 2025
A ceremony to mark Myanmar Women’s Day 2025 took place at Thiri Yadana Hall of the Myanmar Women’s Affairs Federation in Dekkhinathiri Township of Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning, attended by Honorary Patron of MWAF Daw Kyu Kyu Hla, wife of the...
Regime forces retake Moebye in southern Shan State; UN Special Envoy on Myanmar visits Russia
Democratic Voice of Burma
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July 4, 2025
Regime forces retake Moebye in southern Shan State Sources on the frontline in southern Shan State told DVB that pro-regime forces, including the Pa-O National Organization (PNO), took control of Moebye town, Pekon Township, on Wednesday. Moebye...
Myanmar Military News Updates – Jul 03, 2025 Evening
MoeMaKa
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July 3, 2025
Myanmar Military News Updates – Jul 03, 2025 Evening 🚩🚩 1. Kyaukse District Battalion 2 Rejoins MOD Command and Apologizes to Authorities July 3 The Kyaukse District Battalion 2 in Mandalay Region, which had previously submitted a request to...
Myanmar plans low-interest capital financing for quick business recovery after earthquake
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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July 3, 2025
An advertisement of a financial institution to provide capital-financing low-interest loans to micro, small and medium enterprises. Chairman of the State Administration Council Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said that among the quick business...
People-centred rebuild required in Myanmar months after deadly earthquake
Church Times
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July 3, 2025
RESIDENTS of Myanmar are still living in tents or temporary shelters, three months after the earthquake that struck the country on 28 March. It has claimed the lives of at least 3700 people, and thousands more have been injured. People are...
Nay Pyi Taw to host International Copyright Conference 2025
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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July 1, 2025
The International Conference on Intellectual Property 2025 is scheduled to take place on 3 and 4 July at the Jasmine Naypyitaw Hotel. The conference aims to strengthen Myanmar’s copyright ecosystem, fostering innovation, economic development, and...
Myanmar Regime Leader Rejects World Bank Economic Forecast as Inaccurate
The Irrawaddy
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July 3, 2025
Myanmar military junta boss Min Aung Hlaing, who frequently claims that data and information from global organizations like the UN is inaccurate and incomplete, is now insisting that the World Bank’s economic forecasts for Myanmar lack...
Myanmar Construction Industry Report 2025 Output To Register An AAGR Of 3.9% During 2026-2029, Supported By Investments In Renewable Energy, Infrastructure Projects, And Manufacturing Activities
MENAFN
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July 3, 2025
(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Dublin, July 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Myanmar Construction Market Size, Trends, and Forecasts by Sector - Commercial, Industrial, Infrastructure, Energy and Utilities, Institutional and Residential Market...
Fencing work on India-Myanmar border picks up pace, border haats planned
India Today
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July 3, 2025
The work of fencing the India-Myanmar border is progressing rapidly, with a key focus on preventing Rohingya infiltration and curbing smuggling. India is constructing a 1,643-kilometre-long fence along the porous international border, of which...
37 Years and Counting: Why Has Myanmar’s Democracy Struggle Taken So Long?
The Irrawaddy
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July 3, 2025
It has been 37 years since the 1988 Democracy Uprising. For more than three decades, the people of Myanmar have been fighting to restore the democracy stolen from them by military dictators. And yet, after all this time, true democracy remains out...
Myanmar woman sues Tokyo-based ramen shop operator over unpaid wages
The Mainichi
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A Mitsuyado Seimen restaurant where the woman from Myanmar worked is seen in this photo taken June 17, 2025. (Mainichi/Kumiko Yasumoto) TOKYO -- A woman from Myanmar who had worked for a ramen restaurant in Japan has sued its Tokyo-based operating...
Myanmar Junta Blacklists Scam Warlord Saw Chit Thu in Currency Crackdown
The Irrawaddy
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July 1, 2025
Myanmar’s junta has blacklisted a company owned by Saw Chit Thu, a notorious warlord and chief of the regime-aligned Karen State Border Guard Force, for failing to deposit foreign currency export earnings into a junta-controlled bank. Chit Linn...
Post-Earthquake Myanmar Faces ‘Immense’ Suffering, Cannot Be Forgotten
Inter Press Service
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July 3, 2025
Aid, Armed Conflicts, Asia-Pacific, Development & Aid, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Aid Teacher U Aung San standing in the ruins of his classroom, which was...
Myanmar Junta Blacklists 200 Firms for Dodging Hard Currency Grab
The Irrawaddy
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July 2, 2025
The Central Bank of Myanmar has backlisted nearly 200 companies and their directors for violating foreign exchange regulations designed to line the regime’s pockets with hard currency. A total of 197 companies, mostly trading firms in Yangon, were...
CBM to circulate currency notes featuring General Aung San next...
Eleven Myanmar
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The Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM) will issue the currency notes featuring the image of General Aung San in 2020, said Soe Thein, the Deputy Governor of the CBM yesterday. The CBM held a press conference on its undertakings in the third-year tenure...
Chinese company brings smart grid technology to 110 countries, regions
People's Daily Online
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Photo shows Xu Neng, regional director for South Asia at Hexing Electrical Co., Ltd. based in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. (People's Daily Online/Wang Liwei) In recent years, Hexing Electrical Co., Ltd. based in Hangzhou, east China's...
World : Top News Headlines In Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam: July 3, 2025
Bernama
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July 3, 2025
INDONESIA 1. PRABOWO IN SAUDI TO TACKLE HAJ ISSUES -- THE JAKARTA POST Indonesia’s haj management is set to become a key focus of President Prabowo Subianto’s first state visit to Saudi Arabia this week, officials have confirmed, as Jakarta faces...