Nine OFWs home after rescue from Thai, Myanmar crime rings
At least nine overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were victims of a human trafficking syndicate were repatriated after being rescued ...
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Myanmar delegation visits Rohingya camps
A Myanmar government team arrived in Bangladesh on Thursday as part of a mooted pilot scheme to repatriate around 1,200 ...
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Six Pinoy victims of human traffic charge recruiters before the DOJ
Six Filipinos victims of human trafficking who claimed they were forced to work as cryptocurrency scammers in Myanmar have filed ...
Read moreMyanmar city cut off in ‘Mocha’ wake
KYAUKTAW, Myanmar—Tens of thousands of people in a major Myanmar port city were cut off from contact on Monday after ...
Read moreCat. 5 cyclone hits Myanmar, Bangladesh
Cyclone Mocha began to crash ashore at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border on Sunday, Bangladesh’s weather office said, uprooting trees and bringing ...
Read moreCyclone Mocha reaches top hurricane category: US weather centre
Cyclone Mocha intensified into the equivalent of a category 5 hurricane as it barrelled through the Bay of Bengal towards ...
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ASEAN ends gab with united stand on Myanmar, more work on COC
BACK FROM LABUAN BAJO. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. salutes the troops at Villamor Air Base in Pasay City on ...
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Indonesia’s Widodo says no real progress on Myanmar peace plan
Southeast Asian nations have made "no significant progress" on implementing a peace plan aimed at ending bloodshed in Myanmar, Indonesian ...
Read moreMyanmar used ‘vacuum bomb’ in village air strike – HRW
Myanmar’s military used a “vacuum bomb” in an air strike on an opposition village that killed dozens of people in ...
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Myanmar to dominate ASEAN summit as violence escalates
Junta-ruled Myanmar is set to dominate a meeting of Southeast Asian nations in Indonesia that started Tuesday, after an airstrike ...
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