AOL14d
Online banks vs. traditional banks: Comparing rates, features and banking experience
While a 2024 J.D. Power study reveals that customers of online-only banks are more satisfied overall than those of traditional brick-and-mortar banks, not all digital institutions get stellar ...
Daily Post Nigeria15d
Benin Traditional Council bans wearing of Oba, queens’ costumes at ceremonies
The Benin Tradition Council has banned the wearing of chieftaincy traditional costumes specifically meant for the Oba of Benin, Oba’s wives, the royal family and titled chiefs by members of the ...
The Irrawaddy24d
Who Will Be Myanmar’s Kingmaker?
The landscape of Myanmar’s conflict has dramatically changed since then. The coup makers’ State Administration Council (SAC) has been losing territory to various ethnic groups and resistance forces.
Voice of America24d
Chinese actor’s abduction to Myanmar sign of growing diversity of scams
The recent abduction of a Chinese TV actor to Myanmar and his subsequent release is shedding new light on the lengths to which human traffickers operating online scam centers in the war-torn ...
Eos25d
Another tailings landslide in Hpakant, Myanmar
Landslides in the jade mining area of Hpakant in Myanmar have been a regular theme of this blog over the years. This is a mining area on an epic scale, but it is also a true wild west, with poor ...
PCGamesN25d
Genshin Impact outfits - available skins and costumes
Want to know what Genshin Impact outfits are available? The outfits system was introduced in the Genshin Impact 1.6 update, following months of pleading from the community. These outfits give you ...
scmp.com25d
‘Scam City is growing’: how Myanmar’s cyber fraud hubs outfox efforts to shut them down
Scam factories threaded along the Myanmar border with Thailand have been thrust back under the spotlight after the rescue of a Chinese actor who says he was duped by a fake casting call into ...
The Conversation25d
From Myanmar to Gaza, Ukraine to Sudan – 2024 was another grim year, according to our mass atrocity index
Collin J. Meisel receives funding from the U.S. government, but the results and views expressed here are his own and do not represent the views of the USG. With major conflicts in Africa, the ...
Associated Press25d
A landslide in a Myanmar jade mining area kills at least 12 and leaves many missing
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BANGKOK (AP) — An overnight landslide ...
The Star27d
6,000-plus held captive in Myanmar’s human trafficking networks, says international report
Chinese transnational criminal syndicates reportedly exploit this area with support from local armed groups, including Myanmar’s Karen Border Guard Force (BGF), previously known as the ...
Nikkei Asia27d
Myanmar mobile carrier Mytel now on U.S. sanctions list
BANGKOK/YANGON -- U.S. authorities placed Myanmar mobile carrier Mytel on a sanctions roster due to its financial ties to the country's military. The U.S. Commerce Department added Mytel to its ...