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• Retno: ASEAN should be flexible and efficient
• The Age of Blowback Terror
• Mercedes Benz leaves the competition in the rear view mirror
• Nation’s first elephant hospital under way but needs funds
• MP proposes better deal for nurses
• Forestry officer killed, one injured
• Thousands of refugees bear the brunt of war in Kachin State
• 29 bodies, including 8 children, retrieved from plane crash
• 208 Myanmar workers arrested in Thailand
• Lawyers decry court refusal of bail for Voice editor, satirist

Retno: ASEAN should be flexible and efficient Posted: 08 Jun 2017 03:27 PM PDT INDONESIAN Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said that ASEAN must be moderate, flexible and efficient with a stronger secretariat to maintain its relevancy in an uncertain world.

The Age of Blowback Terror Posted: 08 Jun 2017 03:04 PM PDT World powers have often been known to intervene, overtly and covertly, to overthrow other countries' governments, install pliant regimes, and then prop up those regimes, even with military action. But, more often than not, what seems like a good idea in the short term often brings about disastrous unintended consequences, ...

Mercedes Benz leaves the competition in the rear view mirror Posted: 08 Jun 2017 02:57 PM PDT If money is not a problem, the world of luxury cars has now opened its doors in Myanmar.

Nation’s first elephant hospital under way but needs funds Posted: 08 Jun 2017 02:52 PM PDT The country's first hospital for sick and aging elephants is being built in Taungoo, Bago Region, but needs more funding, according to U Zaw Min Oo, manager of elephant sector of the Myanmar Timber Enterprise (MTE), under the Forest Department.

MP proposes better deal for nurses Posted: 08 Jun 2017 02:50 PM PDT A MOTION to improve working conditions and promotions for the nursing profession has been submitted to the Pyithu Hluttaw.

Forestry officer killed, one injured Posted: 08 Jun 2017 02:49 PM PDT A Forestry Department officer was killed and another injured after unknown assailants in the Magwe Region attacked them.

Thousands of refugees bear the brunt of war in Kachin State Posted: 08 Jun 2017 02:46 PM PDT SIX years after government troops and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) began fighting on June 9, 2011, tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced and now lived in misery in IDP camps in Kachin state and along the Myanmar-China border.

29 bodies, including 8 children, retrieved from plane crash Posted: 08 Jun 2017 02:42 PM PDT Hundreds of people gathered on a beach in southern Myanmar on Thursday desperately waiting for news of their loved ones as the first bodies arrived from the wreck of a military plane that crashed with more than 120 people on board.

208 Myanmar workers arrested in Thailand Posted: 08 Jun 2017 02:40 PM PDT MORE than 200 Myanmar migrants who were working in a chicken factory in Htamakan town in Thailand's Kachanaburi Province have been arrested for working without permits, according to a Myanmar embassy official and a Thailand-based migrant aid organisation.

Lawyers decry court refusal of bail for Voice editor, satirist Posted: 08 Jun 2017 02:37 PM PDT Defendant lawyers said the decision of Bahan township court to deny bail for editor-in-chief of the Voice newspaper and a satirist was an unreasonable ruling that is not in line with the legal frameworks.

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