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BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has arrested a Japanese business executive, along with dozens of local businessmen, for allegedly selling rice at prices well above the officially regulated ones, state-run media said Monday.
BANGKOK -- Two reports issued in the past fortnight have confirmed that international efforts led by the U.S. to prevent the military regime in Myanmar from importing jet fuel have failed at a time when bombing of civilians in rural areas has risen dramatically.
BANGKOK/YANGON -- The detention of a Japanese executive and several others accused of selling rice at inflated prices in Myanmar underscores the military regime's efforts to contain the surging price of food and fend off public backlash over the country's economic struggles.
Operation 1027 has resumed in northern Myanmar, eight months after the rebel offensive dealt a surprise hammer blow to the coup-installed State Administration Council (SAC) military regime.
BANGKOK (Reuters) -- Major Thai banks defended themselves on Thursday against criticism that they facilitated weapons purchases by the Myanmar junta, saying they lacked the capacity to investigate all transactions that might be used for such purchases.
YANGON (Kyodo) -- A Japanese executive of a local supermarket joint venture in Myanmar was indicted Thursday after being detained recently for allegedly violating rice pricing rules, according to a judicial source.
BANGKOK -- Myanmar's army is learning a bitter lesson in military logistics in its faltering campaign against determined insurgents on multiple fronts. Forces under Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the military leader whose coup in 2021 rekindled civil war, are having to scrounge for increasingly costly supplies of gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel to feed their military machine.
BANGKOK (AP) — New fighting has broken out in northeastern Myanmar, bringing an end to a Chinese-brokered cease-fire and putting pressure on the military regime as it faces attacks from resistance forces on multiple fronts in the country’s civil war.