Some workers who toil away at a municipal dump in Bangkok have found a novel way of reducing Thailand’s waste and helping the environment, while pocketing a little extra cash from collecting garbage.
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Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, has made significant strides since its tumultuous birth in 2002, but unemployment and poverty remain challenges for many citizens, a stark contrast to the early aspirations for prosperity. benarnews.org/english/news/i…

Border traders throughout Myanmar are grappling with rising commodity prices and shortages of goods as fighting between the junta and forces battling to end military rule disrupts trade, an independent think tank said.
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Police in the Philippines in recent weeks have arrested three men suspected in the killing of community radio broadcaster Juan Jumalon, who was gunned down while broadcasting live on Facebook. benarnews.org/english/news/p…

The Philippines said that Chinese coast guard vessels fired water cannons at two of its ships on Tuesday, causing some damage in the latest confrontation near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. benarnews.org/english/news/p…

Police in the Philippines have arrested three men suspected in the killing of community radio broadcaster Juan Jumalon, who was gunned down while broadcasting live on Facebook. benarnews.org/english/news/p…

Burmese junta forces have lost townships to rebel groups nationwide – most notably in Myanmar’s Kachin state along the northern border with China, Rakhine state on the western border with Bangladesh, and Kayin state on the eastern border with Thailand. benarnews.org/english/news/b…

Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara, Thailand’s erstwhile foreign minister, said Monday that he resigned because he could not have performed his diplomatic duties effectively after the prime minister dropped him as a deputy PM through a cabinet shuffle. benarnews.org/english/news/t…

Solomon Islands’ Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, who gained international prominence after agreeing to a secret security pact with China in 2022, said Monday he would not seek reelection when Parliament votes for a new leader later this week.
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Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Friday brushed off an American professor as a “mediocre scholar” after the academic controversially claimed that the country backed another Holocaust. benarnews.org/english/news/m…

China has expressed “grave concern” about the possibility of Japan joining the AUKUS security pact, saying it would undermine peace and stability in the region and the world.
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Myanmar shut a main border crossing with Thailand early Friday as junta forces carried out airstrikes in nearby areas, Thai officials and nearby residents told Radio Free Asia, a news service affiliated with BenarNews.
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About 200 people remain in Cemarajaya, a village in West Java province where sea waters have eroded the coastline, destroyed homes and livelihoods, and forced more than 1,000 of their neighbors to flee during the past two decades.
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'[T]he number of Filipino boats has decreased, because of the fear that they’re going to get bullied or intimidated by Chinese vessels.” bit.ly/4dgWTh6