Numerous migrant jade prospectors continue to search slag stacks for pieces of the valuable gems amidst unsafe conditions throughout the monsoon season in Myanmar’s Hpakant mining location, despite a deadly mudslide that eliminated approximately 200 scavengers in early July. Heavy rains set off the collapse of big stacks of muddy waste referred to as tailings […]

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North Koreans who stop working to wear masks deal with a minimum of 3 months of “disciplinary labor” with harsher charges for people captured slipping into China under tough new COVID-19 avoidance measures, authorities in the nation informed RFA Thursday. The penalties, to be imposed by trainees conscripted into facemask patrols, were presented today in […]

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Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chair of the Senate health committee, urged President Donald Trump on Sunday to wear a mask “from time to time” and to leave coronavirus health and medical suggestions to the experts. “I wish the president would wear a mask when it’s appropriate because millions of Americans admire him, and they would […]

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Cambodia’s top human rights body stated Wednesday that the nation does not wish to lose preferential trade status in the European Union but is not able to adhere to the bloc’s requirements on rights reforms to keep those benefits, mentioning its status as a sovereign country. The EU in mid-February revealed strategies to suspend tariff-free […]

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To prop up the economy throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Congress passed the most sweeping growth of unemployment insurance coverage because the program started. Now, Democrats say the Trump administration is attempting to damage the brand-new benefits. Independent specialists and gig workers such as Uber drivers are expected to be qualified for benefits under the Coronavirus […]

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Thai cops apprehended and later on launched 300 migrant workers as they headed to the border to return home to Myanmar on Thursday amid the spread of the extremely infectious coronavirus, part of an exodus covering throughout Southeast Asia as factories in Thailand that depend on foreign labor shut down, a labor activist, an embassy […]

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The coronavirus pandemic is leaving lots of workers in Vietnam and Laos jobless as organisations have actually been closed down to avoid the spread of the lethal infection, while Myanmar has a hard time to handle great deals of returning migrant workers who lost their tasks in surrounding Thailand and China. Southeast Asia had actually […]

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The Myanmar federal government on Friday assured people that food materials are sufficient and prompted individuals not to panic over the coronavirus pandemic, amid rumors about the spread of extremely infectious infection in the nation, which has yet to see any validated cases. The Myanmar President’s Office bought all state and local federal governments to […]

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