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Natural resources are bestowed by the Earth and seem a blessing for human beings. However, an abundance of natural resources is not necessarily a blessing if the country cannot manage its endowments properly. [1]

Yangon — Myanmar’s military says Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) troops opened fire five times on military investigators studying the death of a civilian in Kyaukme Township in northern Shan State. [2]

YANGON—The British government on Monday imposed sanctions on the Myanmar military’s commander-in-chief and his deputy for alleged human rights abuses against the Rohingya people in Rakhine State and other groups in the country. [3]

YANGON—Myanmar’s Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture has ordered the removal of sitting Buddha statues donated by members of the country’s former military regime, as the stone idols were sculpted according to occult practices that go against Th... [4]

AFP Myanmar’s junta and anti-coup guerillas battled over the country’s jade mining hub Friday, a combatant and a local said, displacing desperate civilians as they vied for supplies of the precious stone. [5]

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[1] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2020-07-13 · 100% match

Myanmar’s Jade-Rich Hpakant Caught in a ‘Winner’s Curse’

Natural resources are bestowed by the Earth and seem a blessing for human beings. However, an abundance of natural resources is not necessarily a blessing if the country cannot manage its endowments properly.

[2] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2020-07-17 · 100% match

Myanmar Military Claims its Investigators Attacked in Shan State

Yangon — Myanmar’s military says Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) troops opened fire five times on military investigators studying the death of a civilian in Kyaukme Township in northern Shan State.

[3] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2020-07-07 · 100% match

UK Imposes Sanctions on Myanmar Military Chief, Deputy for Abuses Against Rohingya, Others

YANGON—The British government on Monday imposed sanctions on the Myanmar military’s commander-in-chief and his deputy for alleged human rights abuses against the Rohingya people in Rakhine State and other groups in the country.

[4] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2020-07-07 · 100% match

Myanmar Ministry Orders Monastery to Remove Buddha Statues Designed Using Occult Practices

YANGON—Myanmar’s Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture has ordered the removal of sitting Buddha statues donated by members of the country’s former military regime, as the stone idols were sculpted according to occult practices that go against Th

[5] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-06-21 · 49% match

Myanmar junta battles guerillas for control of jade hub in Kachin State

AFP Myanmar’s junta and anti-coup guerillas battled over the country’s jade mining hub Friday, a combatant and a local said, displacing desperate civilians as they vied for supplies of the precious stone.

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2019-03-21 · 41% match

Kachin Gov’t Set to Reject Mongolian Mining Proposal

YANGON—The Kachin State government has decided to shelve a Mongolian company’s proposal to conduct a feasibility study on the extraction of gold and other minerals in Myanmar’s largest national conservation area, a sanctuary nearly triple the size of

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2020-06-15 · 40% match

Malcolm Turnbull argues Australia can withstand China's pressure

SINGAPORE -- Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has urged his successor, Scott Morrison, to stay the course even as Beijing ramps up pressure on Canberra to soften its China policy.

[8] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-05-05 · 37% match

Spring Revolution Daily News for 5 May 2024

The National Unity Government (NUG) - In Magway Region, a junta soldier from (368) Heavy Weapons Unit, along with weapons, defected to Gantgaw District People’s Defence Force (PDF). Reportedly, he was rewarded 50 lakh MMK.

[9] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-11-24 · 36% match

Are Chinese private armies entering the fray in Myanmar?

RFA Between the high-level visits of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Naypyidaw and Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing’s trip to China, the neighbors struck one piece of business – a deal to allow the deployment of Chinese private military corpo

[10] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-11-20 · 33% match

Hong Kong court jails 45 democracy campaigners, drawing condemnation

AFP Western governments and rights groups condemned Tuesday the jailing of 45 pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong in the city’s largest national security trial.

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