HEADLINES: MYANMAR: Myanmar armed ethnic groups claim key northern town
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CAMBODIA: $466 million from rice exports in 2023
China remains Cambodia’s top rice export destination. File PhotoCambodia had exported 656,323 tonnes of milled rice in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 3 percent, the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) said in a news release on Friday.
The Southeast Asian country earned a total revenue of $466 million from the export of the commodity, up 13 percent year-on-year, the news release said, adding that the kingdom’s rice had been shipped to 61 countries and regions.
China remained the top buyer of the commodity.
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MYANMAR: Myanmar armed ethnic groups claim key northern town
A view of Laukkaing city in Shan state, Myanmar. PHOTO: AP
BANGKOK (AFP) – An armed alliance of ethnic minority groups in Myanmar claimed late on Friday to have captured a northern town notorious for online scam operations in another blow to the embattled junta.
The military is facing its biggest threat since seizing power in a 2021 coup after three armed ethnic groups – known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance – launched a sweeping October offensive in northern Shan state.
Since November, people have been fleeing Laukkai town, located in a district bordering China run by a Myanmar military-aligned militia and notorious for gambling, prostitution and online scams run out of compounds staffed by thousands of people, many trafficked.The alliance – made up of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the Arakan Army (AA) and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) – said the town was now under their control.
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Myanmar’s junta confirms key city seized by armed ethnic alliance
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it withdrew its forces from a key city on the northeastern border with China after it was taken over by an alliance of ethnic armed groups it has been battling for months. The Three Brotherhood Alliance took control of Laukkaing late Thursday after Myanmar military forces
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SINGAPORE: Woman found dead in Bukit Batok flat: Man, 65, to be charged with murder of neighbour; knife seized
At about 11.30am, a man covered in full white protective gear, to preserve forensic evidence, was escorted to a police car. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG
SINGAPORE – A 65-year-old man was arrested and will be charged with the murder of his neighbour, a 43-year-old woman, who was found lying motionless in a flat in Bukit Batok on the morning of Jan 6.
The woman’s son, a five-year-old boy, was injured and taken conscious to the National University Hospital.
The police said in a statement in the afternoon on Jan 6 that they received a call for assistance at about 8.20am. The woman they found in the flat at Block 460B, Bukit Batok West Avenue 9, was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics from the Singapore Civil Defence Force.
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