ASEAN HEADLINES | CAMBODIA: ASEAN chief says Cambodia makes great strides towards fostering region’s peace, stability, economic prosperity
.Cambodia has made significant contributions to maintaining peace, stability and economic prosperity in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the past 25 years, says ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn.
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CAMBODIA: ASEAN chief says Cambodia makes great strides towards fostering region’s peace, stability, economic prosperity
Cambodia has made significant contributions to maintaining peace, stability and economic prosperity in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the past 25 years, says ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn.
In a congratulatory message to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, the ASEAN chief said 2024 marks a quarter of a century since Cambodia officially became the 10th member of the ASEAN on April 30, 1999.
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Memento Maxima Digital MarketingSINGAPORE: 2.5km underground link to be built between Changi Airport T2 and future T5
SINGAPORE – A 2.5km-long underground link will be built to connect the future Changi Airport Terminal 5 (T5) with the existing Terminal 2 (T2). It comprises tunnels for an automated people-mover system – similar to today’s Skytrain – and a separate system to handle baggage.
Part of ongoing infrastructural works at the new 1,080ha Changi East development, the T2 Connection will link T5 with Changi’s existing terminals when the mega terminal opens in the mid-2030s, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) told The Straits Times in response to queries.
New details about this inter-terminal underground link were first reported by Chinese-language daily Lianhe Zaobao on April 14.
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THAILAND: 1,300 from Myanmar flee into Thailand
BANGKOK (AP) – About 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand, officials said yesterday, as fresh fighting erupted at a border town that has recently been captured by ethnic guerillas.
Fighters from the Karen ethnic minority last week captured the last of the Myanmar army’s outposts in and around Myawaddy, which is connected to Thailand by two bridges across the Moei River. The latest clashes were triggered in the morning when the Karen guerillas launched an attack against Myanmar troops who were hiding near the second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge, a major crossing point for trade with Thailand, said police chief Pittayakorn Phetcharat in Thailand’s Mae Sot district.
He estimated about 1,300 people fled into Thailand. Thai officials reported people had started crossing since Friday following clashes in several areas of Myawaddy. The fall of Myawaddy is a major setback for the military that seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021.
Myanmar’s once-mighty armed forces have suffered a series of unprecedented defeats since last October, losing swathes of territory including border posts to both ethnic fighters, who have been fighting for greater autonomy for decades, and pro-democracy guerrilla units that took up arms after the military takeover.
The clashes, involving drone attacks from the Karen forces and airstrikes by the Myanmar military, had subsided by noon yesterday compared to the morning, but Mae Sot police chief Pittayakorn Phetcharat said he could still hear sporadic gunshots.
He said Thai authorities would move people fleeing into a safer area.
Footage from the Thai border showed Thai soldiers maintaining guard near the bridge with sounds of explosions and gunshots in the background.
People with children waded across the river with their belongings and were received by Thai officials on the river bank.
