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China to support his family after losing his job during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March, a job offer to teach Chinese cooking at a restaurant led him into a cyber scam compound in Myanmar, where he was instead ordered to lure Chinese into giving up their savings for fake investment schemes via social media platforms. Zhang is one of tens of thousands of people, mostly but not all Chinese, who have become ensnared in cyber scam networks run by powerful Chinese criminal syndicates in Southeast Asia. Regional and Chinese authorities have netted thousands of people in a crackdown, but experts say they are failing to root out the local elites and criminal networks that are bound to keep running the schemes.

earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter scale jolted Myanmar on Monday morning, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. According to the NCS, the earthquake struck at 06:29:16 IST on Monday, at a depth of 90 kilometers.

China's decision against inviting Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing to the third Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) forum in Beijing this week was part of its diplomatic optics to avoid global criticism. It however sent invitation to Junta Deputy Prime Minister and Transport and Communications Minister General Mya Tun Oo for attending the forum.

Guwahati: In poll bound Mizoram the Assam Rifles has arrested a Myanmar national and seized a huge cache of drugs, valued at Rs 45 crore from his possession. Assam Rifles personnel, acting on secret information, arrested the Myanmar national and recovered 15 kgs of methamphetamine tablets, valued at Rs 45 crore, from him in Zokawthar area in the border Champhai district on Saturday night. The Election Commission, during its recent visit to Mizoram and subsequently, issued several directives to the Central and state law enforcing agencies to further step up their efforts to prevent smuggling from the neighbouring countries or to seize the illegally imported drugs, contrabands and nab the smugglers.

NEW DELHI : India may sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with its key diplomatic partner Indonesia to sell up to 1 million tonnes (mt) of white rice annually, two government officials said. India’s 20 July ban on non-basmati white rice exports comes even as Indonesia plans to safeguard food security against disruptions caused by the El Nino weather pattern and difficulties with supplies from Vietnam, the current major supplier. Although Indonesia is self-sufficient in rice production, it procures rice through MoUs when there is uncertainty in meeting its domestic demand.

Manipur Government to suit Meitei communal interests while conveniently ignoring the historical facts. The letter highlighted the representation submitted earlier by the Ojha Sanajaoba Memorial Trust (OSMT) and explained how the Memorial Trust's demand for the insertion of protective clause under Article 3 and amendment of Article 37 IC (1) & (2) of the Indian Constitution is myopic and communal, and portrayed the exclusive mindset of the Meitei community at large.

Moreh in Manipur following the attempts to encroach abandoned houses. Additional security forces including the Rapid Action Force (RAF) rushed to the area. Moreh, just 4 km to the west of Myanmar’s largest border town Tamu, saw large-scale violence in July. The Tengnoupal district administration has also suspended daytime curfew relaxation in the border town until further order.

Manipur cancelled the daily curfew relaxation in the Indo-Myanmar border town of Moreh. An order issued by the District Magistrate of Tengnoupal Krishan Kumar on Monday said that daily curfew relaxation from 6 am to 5 pm to facilitate the general public to purchase essential items including medicines and food is «cancelled with immediate effect till further orders as there is a likelihood of gathering of public.» However, curfew relaxation in the rest of the district will remain from 6 am to 5 pm, it said.

Myanmar's Kachin State, among them women, children and the elderly, local media reports and sources in the area said on Tuesday. Reuters could not immediately verify the reports. The Kachin media and local sources said the incident took place close to midnight on Monday, a few kilometres from a military camp run by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), which is in conflict with Myanmar's ruling military.

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arsonists setting at least two houses on fire, news agency PTI reported, citing the inputs received from police personnel. Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels. Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here! The incident was reported in New Keithelmanbi in Patsoi police station area around 10 pm on October 4, the police officials reportedly said.

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Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Sunday said that the current crisis in Manipur is not a clash between ethnic group and not a law-and-order issue of the state, but purely a war against the Indian Union by Myanmar and Bangladesh based Kuki militants in collaboration with militant groups operating in Manipur. Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF), an apex body of tribals in Manipur, on Sunday night called an indefinite shutdown in Churachandpur district in protest against the “abduction of 7 Kuki-Zo people including two minors”. The Chief Minister said that the current crisis was instigated by a group of people who want to disintegrate the state, but shown as ethnic or communal clash, or religion based, or between majority and minority, however, with the voice of people, the real cause has come up Recalling the statement made by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Parliament and by External Affairs Minister S.

BJP leaders in Manipur in a letter to BJP president J P Nadda stated that public anger and protest is now slowly turning the tide, putting the sole onus of this prolonged disturbances solely into the failure of the government in dealing with the situation. The state unit of BJP has sought all possible help and support to release Moirangthem Anand Singh who was arrested by the NIA in connection with the recent crisis in the state. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Moirangthem Anand Singh in a case related to a transnational conspiracy by Myanmar based leadership of terror outfits to wage a war against the Government of India by exploiting the current ethnic unrest in the State of Manipur. The case was registered suo moto by the NIA at New Delhi.

NIA) on Saturday arrested Seiminlun Gangte in a case related to a transnational conspiracy by Myanmar and Bangladesh based leadership of terror outfits to wage war against the Government of India by exploiting the current ethnic unrest in Manipur. The case was registered suo moto by the NIA on 19.07.2023 at New Delhi. NIA stated investigation of RC 24/2023/NIA/DLI by NIA revealed that, Myanmar and Bangladesh based militant groups have entered into a conspiracy with a section of militant leaders in India to indulge in incidents of violence with an intention to drive a wedge between different ethnic groups and to wage war against the Government of India.

Manipur BJP MLA Rajkumar Imo Singh has sought fencing of the India-Myanmar border in Mizoram similar to to what is done on the Manipur side to control the influx of illegal immigrants from Myanmar. Imo Singh who is son in law of Chief Minister N. Biren Singh stated in X, “One of the main causes of this conflict in Manipur, the issue of Illegal Migrants from Myanmar, and the State of Mizoram has stated that it will ignore the Home Ministry’s directive to safeguard against illegal migrants in the region, which will also help to protect all indigenous people of the country." «It will have far reaching consequences across the North Eastern States, changing the demography of the whole region.

India imports most of its tur dal, also called arhar, from two African nations, Mozambique and Malawi, and Myanmar, and is the third largest importer of tur dal in the world, only behind the United States and Canada. Also Read: Pulses supplies to remain constrained till Diwali What has happened? Over the past month, the average market price of tur dal has risen by Rs 10 per kilogram, reaching Rs 149 per kilogram. The prices of tur are being bolstered by several factors, including the constrained availability of domestic stocks, delays in the sowing of the kharif crop, and a sluggish pace of imports. Tur dal in India is boiling at record-high prices and to prevent hoarding and elicit its continuous release, the Central government on September 25 significantly reduced the stock limit for tur, and also urad dal, held by wholesalers and large retail chains from 200 tonnes to 50 tonnes.

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S Jaishankar has said efforts are on in Manipur by the state and the central governments to find a way by which a sense of normalcy returns and there is adequate law-and-order enforcement. "...I think one part of the problem in Manipur has been the destabilising impact of migrants who have come," he said Tuesday at the Council on Foreign Relations in response to a question on the situation in the northeastern state in India. «But there are also tensions which obviously have a long history which precede that. And today, I think the effort is on the part of the state government and the Union government to find a way by which a sense of normalcy returns, that arms which were seized during that period are recovered, that there is an adequate law-and-order enforcement out there so that incidents of violence don't happen,» the minister said. Earlier this month, a group of United Nations experts said they are «appalled» by reports and images of violence in Manipur targeting women and girls, and urged the Indian government to take robust action to investigate the incidents and hold the perpetrators to account. The experts raised an alarm on reports of serious human rights violations and abuses in Manipur, including acts of alleged sexual violence, extrajudicial killings, home destruction, forced displacement, torture and ill-treatment.

Kuki Inpi Manipur or KIM, the apex body of the Kuki tribes said that the ceaseless violence in Manipur is unmistakably part of the well-designed plan of the majority Meitei's «War of Independent Country» to secede from the Union of India. This, according to the Kuki Inpi Manipur, can be proven by the revelation of Moirangthem Anand Singh, who was recently arrested by the National Investigation Agency in a case related to a Transnational Conspiracy by Myanmar-based leadership of terror outfits to wage a war against the Government of India by exploiting the current ethnic unrest in Manipur. Moirangthem Anand Singh (45), son of (L) Achou Singh of Singjamei Makha Sorokhaibam Leikai is initially a trained People's Liberation Army (PLA) cadre who later joined the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) Noyon group. According to Manipur Police, Moirangthem Anand Singh was arrested six times in 1997, 2001, 2002, 20024, 2005, and 2009 while he was with the PLA, and he was once again arrested after joining the KCP (Noyon) group in 2010. Recently, on September 16, he was arrested along with four others with sophisticated weapons, but released on bail a few days later a lot with the four others.