Survivors of the deadly Myanmar earthquake are sleeping outdoors in tents or under tarps bracing for aftershocks. The devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Myanmar’s second-largest city, Mandalay, on March 28. In its aftermath, more than 3,600 lives …
WEST WORCESTERSHIRE MP Dame Harriett Baldwin has welcomed a Government commitment to ensure UK aid will help people affected by the earthquakes in Myanmar. The Disaster Emergency Committee has launched an appeal for funds to support the international …
Myanmar’s junta and a key opposition group have indicated they would extend a ceasefire to support more aid efforts after a devastating earthquake, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday, following rare high-level talks with the ruling …
Malaysian Prime Minister and ASEAN chair Anwar Ibrahim said Friday he had urged Myanmar’s junta leader to respect a post-earthquake ceasefire in backroom talks in Bangkok. Junta officials have been barred from summits of the 10-country Association of …
In a move that could have implications for the Naga peace process, the son of National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) or NSCN (I-M)’s late founding leader Isak Chishi Swu, Ikato Chishi Swu, has announced that he is joining dissident NSCN (I-M) …
Donald Trump’s stop-start trade war continues. The Financial Times explains how China’s record trade surplus helped trigger the tariff war with the US president, and The Washington Post provides a live tracker of all the tariffs that Trump has enacted, …
BANGKOK, Thailand — Malaysian Prime Minister and ASEAN chair Anwar Ibrahim said Friday he had urged Myanmar's junta leader to respect a post-earthquake ceasefire in backroom talks in Bangkok. Junta officials have been barred from summits of the 10- …
By Wan Muhammad Aslah Wan Razali KUALA LUMPUR, April 18 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s proactive diplomacy in facilitating a pledge to extend the ceasefire in Myanmar has been described as “highly significant” by leading geopolitical expert Prof Dr James Chin, …
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