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Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Oct 03, 2025 Evening
Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Oct 03, 2025 Evening 📌📌 1. Event in New York Highlighting Voices of Strength and Resilience of Burmese Women and Minorities During the Revolution On October 3, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the National Unity...




Fears grow for missing British teen seen ‘travelling to scam compound in Myanmar’
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A British teenager missing in Thailand is feared to have been roped into a scam compound run by Chinese gangs. Lawrence Honour, 19, was...
23rd Chuseok International Sports Day Brings Together Migrants and Locals in South Korea
Annually hosted in Inchon city on the first day of Chuseok, also known as Korean Thanksgiving Day, the 23rd Chuseok International Sports Day was held on October 3, 2025, at the Namdong Neighborhood Park Stadium and Yeonsu Sports Park. The event...

From war-torn Myanmar to Mizoram’s music stage: Mary Dawngi’s journey of resilience
Aizawl, Oct 3: Mary Dawngi's journey from war-torn Myanmar to Mizoram's music scene is a story of sheer hope and survival. Fleeing Myanmar's brutal civil war in 2022, the young singer found refuge in the Mizoram capital where she found a platform...

Bihar assembly election: CEC Gyanesh Kumar arrives in Patna with his team to review poll preparations
Patna: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar arrived in the Bihar capital late on Friday for reviewing, over the next couple of days, preparations for the high-octane assembly polls, which are expected to be announced soon, an official said....

Myanmar Junta Troops Secure Kyaukme Town After Capture
Clashes continued Thursday between junta forces and the ethnic Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) after the regime recaptured Kyaukme town in northern Shan State a day earlier. A Kyaukme resident said the military conducted clearance...

Prime Minister U Nyo Saw calls for value-added production and...
Prime Minister U Nyo Saw has urged the creation of effective policies, investment opportunities, and market linkages to boost production and transition Myanmar from producing agricultural raw materials to manufacturing value-added products....

Junta Chief Unveils Country’s First ‘Handcuffs’ Election; Prefers Photo Ops to Front Line; and More
Police-State Polls Min Aung Hlaing oversees an event to mark Myanmar Police Day in Naypyitaw on Wednesday. With resistance groups nationwide denouncing the junta’s planned December election as a sham, junta boss Min Aung Hlaing chose the 61st...
World : Top News Headlines In Indonesia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam: Oct 4, 2025
INDONESIA 1.JAKARTA WEIGHS TIGHTER SCRAP STEEL IMPORTS AFTER BANTEN RADIOACTIVE LEAK -- JAKARTA GLOBE The Environment Ministry has signaled tighter restrictions on scrap metal imports after radioactive cesium-137 contamination was detected at an...
Weaponising aid in Gaza: How private contractors are blurring the line between relief and politics
LONDON, Oct 4 — Fifteen-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud Jamal Al-Attar set out to collect food from an Israeli-controlled distribution site in southern Gaza one day in August, but like many others he never made it back; he died after being shot in...

UH designer’s Myanmar-inspired fashion selected for international stage
Reading time: 2 minutesSung’s designs artfully combine her culture from the Chin state of Myanmar. Designs that blend modern fashion with the cultural heritage of the Chin culture of Myanmar have earned a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumna a...

Election Will Lack Legitimacy Unless Junta Frees Daw Aung San Suu Kyi: AA Chief
As Myanmar’s junta-appointed election commission accelerates preparations for polls scheduled in December and January, Arakan Army (AA) commander Tun Myat Naing said the regime cannot hope to win the public’s trust unless it releases detained...

Myanmar Military Retakes Important Town in Southern Shan State
Myanmar’s military has taken back control of a major district capital in Shan State, just over a year after losing it to the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), an ethnic armed group. In a report yesterday, the Global New Light of Myanmar...

Mahesh Basnet warns government against politics of retaliation
KATHMANDU: CPN-UML leader Mahesh Basnet has warned the government not to engage in politics of retaliation. In a social media post, Basnet cautioned that if investigations are driven by revenge, there would be strong resistance. He further...
Myanmar marks Int'l Day of Older Persons in Nay Pyi Taw
YANGON, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar held a ceremony to mark the International Day of Older Persons on Wednesday in Nay Pyi Taw, state-owned daily The Mirror reported on Thursday. Speaking at the event, Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and...