Myanmar emergency overview map: Number of people displaced in South East since Feb 2021 and remain displaced (As of 08 August 2022)

August 11, 20220

In the South-East, the number of IDPs increased from 273,100 last week to 277,500 this week. Most of the new IDPs were verified in Tanintharyi and Bago Region (East).In Tanintharyi, 2,400 people from several villages in Yebyu Township were displaced wi…

CTED to brief Security Council meeting on Secretary-General’s latest report on threats posed by ISIL/Da’esh

August 5, 20220

The United Nations Security Council will hold a briefing on 9 August 2022 on the Secretary-General’s latest biannual report on the evolving and global threats posed by ISIL/Da’esh.Mr. Weixiong Chen, Acting Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Co…

Police chief oversees probe into Ubon Ratchathani shootings, one arrested

August 4, 20220

Thailand’s national police chief, Pol Gen Suwat Jangyodsuk, flew to the north-eastern province of Ubon Ratchathani today (Thursday) to oversee the investigation into last night’s shootout in a department store parking lot, which left two dead and seven…

Anti-Junta Forces in Myanmar Rely on Homemade Weapons

July 31, 20220

YANGON, MYANMAR — Opposition People’s Defense Forces in Myanmar are battling the ruling junta’s military with locally produced weapons, members of the PDF told VOA in recent weeks.The PDF members, mostly students and farmers with no previous weapons ma…

Tourist missing after fall from a raft on rapids in Chiang Mai

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July 23, 20220

Rescue workers resumed their search of a stretch of rapids in Mae Taeng district of Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Mai today (Saturday), looking for a Belgian tourist who went missing after he fell from a raft yesterday afternoon.It is reported…

The Rolls-Royce bribery scandal that sent Thai national airline into nosedive

July 23, 20220

A bribery scandal involving Thailand’s national airline and British jet engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce is back in the media spotlight after the Thai anti-graft agency concluded that their engine procurement deal three decades ago was “unlawful”.The Na…

Malaysia, Thailand to set up ‘strong villages’ for border security

July 22, 20220

BANGKOK, Malaysia and Thailand will set up ‘strong villages’ along the border with the aim of strengthening border security cooperation as well as boosting the local population’s socio-economic development.Malaysian Army Chief Gen. Zamrose Mohd Zain sa…

ASEAN Risk Monitor and Disaster Management Review (ARMOR) – When Disasters and Pandemic Collide: What does it mean to ASEAN, now and into the future? (3rd Edition)

July 21, 20220

With the publication of the third edition of the ASEAN Risk Monitor and Disaster Management Review (ARMOR) – titled When Disasters and Pandemic Collide: What does it mean to ASEAN, now and into the future? – the AHA Centre continues to provide well-res…

DES minister accused of having been unfaithful to his wife during censure debate

July 20, 20220

Pheu Thai MP Chanok Chanthathong took a swipe at Digital Economy and Society Minister Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn during the second day of the censure debate today (Wednesday), accusing him of being unfaithful to his wife.Chanok said that Chaiwut had been …

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