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Myanmar's embattled military government extended a state of emergency on Wednesday (July 31) for another six months, state media said, as the junta struggles to maintain its grip on power with fighting flaring on multiple fronts and the economy in crisis.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations released $100 million on Friday for humanitarian emergencies in 10 countries in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Caribbean.
BANGKOK (AP) — The bodies of three foreign workers who were trapped for days in a railway tunnel in northeastern Thailand that collapsed during construction have been retrieved after an intensive rescue effort, Thai officials said Friday
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Thailand plans to acquire advanced Saab Gripen E/F fighter jets to upgrade its air defense and reinforce its military modernization efforts amid spillover from the Myanmar civil war and rising US-China competition for influence in Southeast Asia.
BANGKOK -- Myanmar's cash-strapped military regime has intensified its scrutiny of the nation's 580 labor agencies in a bid to make more money from overseas workers' remittances to address its foreign currency shortage and stabilize the economy.
BANGKOK (AP) — A military court in Myanmar has given a life prison sentence to a local journalist and sentenced one of his colleagues to 20 years after convicting them under a counterterrorism law, their editor said Wednesday.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Britain circulated a wide-ranging United Nations resolution on Myanmar urging renewed peace efforts, condemning attacks on civilians — especially by the Myanmar military — and calling for a halt to illicit arms transfers.