ASEAN HEADLINE: MYANMAR: Details emerge on junta’s massacre of civilians in Sagaing Region’s Myinmu Township
CAMBODIA: The National Bank of Cambodia reviews measures of housing prices
After reaching 5.3 percent in 2022, Cambodia’s annual inflation rate dropped to 2.1 percent last year and is forecast at 2.0 percent this year.
That compares with 20.0 percent in Laos and 15.5 percent in Myanmar. 4.0 percent in Vietnam, 3.8 percent in the Philippines, 3.0 percent in Singapore, 2.8 percent in Indonesia, and 2.6 percent in Malaysia. The only ASEAN members where prices are expected to rise less than Cambodia are (Brunei 1.1 percent) and Thailand (1.0 percent).
MYANMAR: Details emerge on junta’s massacre of civilians in Sagaing Region’s Myinmu Township
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Two surviving villagers from Let Htoke Taw village told Myanmar Now about the killings they witnessed, which the NUG is investigating as a crime against humanity
Kan Kaung, a 37-year-old civilian man from Myinmu Township, Sagaing Region, quickly hid under a low bed as soldiers entered the monastery where he was hiding with around fifty fellow villagers.
On that morning, May 11, a column of around 100 junta troops had initiated a raid on the township’s Let Htoke Taw village—located on the northwest bank of the Ayeyarwady and ten miles west of Myinmu—they had quickly moved towards the monastery compound, correctly guessing they would find any residents there who had not already left the village.
The village’s residents had either fled to the nearby forest or sought refuge at the monastery after hearing gunfire earlier that morning, Kan Kaung recalled.
Kan Kaung’s wife had opted to stay in the village, believing that escaping to the forest would put their infant child at risk. Although Kan Kaung. . .
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Myanmar-born fish farmer, 39, graduates with aquaculture polytechnic diploma in Singapore
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In 2019, when the manager at the Changi fish farm he was working for left, Mr Soe was thrust into managing the coastal farm. While doing deliveries for the farm previously, he had assisted the former manager when needed.
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SINGAPORE: Singapore Science Park set to get 300-unit condo as first residential project
SINGAPORE – Technology and development hub Singapore Science Park is set to get its first residential project, a 300-unit condominium.
The planned condominium, on a site of about 0.7ha, will be linked to Kent Ridge MRT station via Geneo, an integrated development that will fully open in 2025, said the business park’s master developer and operator CapitaLand Development (CLD).
On May 17, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) published a proposed masterplan amendment to rezone a plot of land next to one of Geneo’s five buildings from business park use to residential use with a plot ratio of 4.1, and other ancillary uses.
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