Anonymous-linked hackers bring down Thai prison websites
Bangkok PostCategory: Latest NewsNewsRegionalCredit - anonymousforjustice/FacebookExactly two weeks after knocking offline almost 300 Thai Courts of Justice websites, hackers associated with the...
View ArticleThailand says 100 held in trafficking blitz on seafood industry
AFPCategory: Latest NewsNewsRegionalA Thai fishing boat on its way to fishing operations at Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, 19 January 2016. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPAThai police said Monday over 100...
View ArticleRescue operation frees 29 Myanmar people from human traffickers
MizzimaCategory: Latest NewsNewsRegionalPhuket island, Thailand. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPAThai authorities have rescued nearly 30 Myanmar victims from alleged human traffickers’ hands in Phuket...
View ArticleThai junta push Google, Facebook and Line to scrub web
AFPCategory: Latest NewsNewsRegionalBangkok, Thailand, 28 January 2016. Photo: Narong Sangnak/EPAThailand's junta is ramping up pressure on internet giants Google and Facebook -- and the popular...
View ArticleSeveral dead after Taiwan quake topples buildings
AFPCategory: Latest NewsNewsRegionalRescuers search for survivors from a collapsed building following a 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck the area in Tainan City, Taiwan, 06 February 2016. Photo:...
View ArticlePush on to unite the Zo tribes on Myanmar-India border
BNICategory: Latest NewsNewsRegionalZo tribes. Photo: Zogam.orgMizoram State’s Information & Public Relations Minister Lal Thanzara told the 124th anniversary Chin-Lushai Conference held in...
View Article26 Indonesians die after drinking bootleg alcohol
AFPCategory: Latest NewsNewsRegionalIndonesian officers destroy alcohol in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday 21 September 2006. East Jakarta Police and the municipal administration bulldozed Thursday...
View ArticleHong Kong police ‘fire warning shots’ in street clash
AFPCategory: Latest NewsCATE_005NewsRegionalBaton-wielding Hong Kong riot police fired warning shots and tear gas early Tuesday after a riot erupted in a busy district when officials tried to shift...
View ArticleUS urges Thais to hold election as military drills begin
AFPCategory: Latest NewsCATE_005NewsRegionalThai soldiers line up after an amphibious assault joint military exercise of Cobra Gold 2012 at a military base in Chonburi province, Thailand, 10 Febuary...
View ArticleThais register 70,000 foreign workers in scandal-mired seafood sector
AFPCategory: Latest NewsCATE_005NewsRegionalThai authorities have registered more than 70,000 previously undocumented foreign workers in its fishing industry, navy officials said Thursday, part of a...
View ArticleUS tells citizens to avoid Laos province after deadly attacks
AFPCategory: Latest NewsCATE_005NewsRegionalPhoto: WikipediaThe United States issued a warning Friday urging Americans to avoid a central Laos province popular with adventure travellers after a sudden...
View ArticleThai clergy scuffle with soldiers as race for top monk gets ugly
AFPCategory: Latest NewsNewsRegionalThai Buddhist monks confront soldiers during a protest at Buddha Monthon in Nakhon Pathom province, Thailand, 15 February 2016. Thousands of Thai Buddhist monks...
View ArticleMyanmar strategic opportunity for both India, China: Former Indian ambassador
Subir BhaumikCategory: Latest NewsNewsRegionalPreet Malik, the former Indian ambassador to Myanmar, says the country presents a 'strategic opportunity' for India and China.In his recently published...
View ArticleMyanmar worker killed, 15 hurt in van crash in Thailand
Bangkok PostCategory: Latest NewsNewsRegionalThai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot. Photo: Hong Sar/MizzimaA woman was killed and 14 other Myanmar workers and a baby injured when a passenger van...
View ArticleIndonesia sinks 27 foreign boats to stop illegal fishing
AFPCategory: Latest NewsNewsRegionalIndonesia Navy blows up a foreign fishing vessel caught fishing illegally in Indonesian sea, at Batam Sea, Indonesia, 22 February 2016. Photo: M URIP/EPAIndonesia...
View ArticleTransnational crime booming across SE Asia: UN
AFPCategory: Latest NewsNewsRegionalOpium poppies ready to be processed into heroine at a poppy field near Pekon township, southern Shan State, Myanmar, 20 December 2015. Photo: Hein...
View ArticleAustralia warns of ‘advanced’ Indonesia terror threat
AFPCategory: Latest NewsNewsRegionalIndonesian police officers stand guard at the site of the 14 January terrorist attack in Jakarta, Indonesia, 18 January 2016. Photo: Bagus Indahono/EPAAustralia on...
View ArticleSouth East Asian mission to track movement of refugees at sea launched
MizzimaCategory: Latest NewsNewsRegionalMyanmar and Bangladeshi Rohingya migrants arrive on a boat of local fisherman in Kuala Langsa, East Aceh, Indonesia, 15 May 2015. Photo: Hotli...
View ArticleIndia’s Manipur State could lose territory to Myanmar
MizzimaCategory: NewsRegionalMoreh in Manipur State at India-Myanmar Friendship gate. Photo: Hong Sar/MizzimaManipur is likely to lose a large chunk of its land to neighbouring Myanmar if the...
View ArticleTasty Bangladesh food promoted by embassy
MizzimaCategory: NewsRegionalThe Bangladesh embassy recently displayed their country’s culinary diversity at a Pitha Utsab held at the Chancery premises in Yangon.A range of 200 guests from the Yangon...
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