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Vietnam coast guard holds rare live fire exercise
The drills are aimed at strengthening combat readiness amid rising tension in the South China Sea.
Shortages in Myanmar lead to ‘socialist-era’ economy
2024-09-16Yangon residents line up for cooking oil and can’t get basic medicines.
Flooding from typhoon swamps northern Laos, Myanmar’s Inle Lake area
2024-09-16Asia’s biggest storm of the year has left scores of people dead and missing.
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Myanmar’s junta presses ahead with census before proposed election
But opponents say the census will only count about half the population because rebels control so much territory.
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