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A fire gutted a beach resort in southeastern Bangladesh on Saturday, killing 10 people and injuring four, an official said. The fire broke out at Tuptup Resto and Resort at Inani in Cox’s Bazar district, a popular destination for domestic tourists, Syed Mohammad Morshed Hossain, deputy assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defense in [...] The post A fire guts a Bangladeshi beach resort, killing 10 people appeared first on DVB .

Regime leader Min Aung Hlaing invited the Karen National Union (KNU), the Chin National Front (CNF), and the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) to participate in “peace talks” during a video message at a ceremony to mark the 11th anniversary of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) in Naypyidaw on Thursday. The ABSDF responded on [...] The post Myanmar regime invitation to ‘peace talks’ rejected by CNF and ABSDF as ‘ploy’ appeared first on DVB .

Zar Li Aye, a Myanmar Supreme Court advocate and human rights defender from Myanmar’s Chin State, was presented with the International Bar Association’s (IBA) 2026 Award for Outstanding Contribution by a Legal Practitioner to Human Rights during the IBA Annual Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 4-9. Grassroots Origins to International Recognition Born and raised in [...] The post Myanmar attorney Zar Li Aye wins 2026 IBA Human Rights Award in Denmark appeared first on DVB .

Iran has managed to export some liquefied petroleum gas and jet fuel since July, despite a U.S. naval blockade, shipping intelligence showed and people involved in security said. Tehran has in recent weeks been concealing such cargoes among ​a growing volume of ship-to-ship transfers by other Gulf producers off Oman, four people in maritime security [...] The post Iran ships some LPG, jet fuel to Myanmar despite US blockade, data shows appeared first on DVB .

The U.S. and Myanmar’s regime in Naypyidaw held talks in Tokyo last week, people familiar with the matter said, their second meeting in a month as Washington steps up re-engagement with the generals it shunned after their ​2021 coup. Earlier talks in Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw in mid-September focused on securing the release of an American [...] The post US holds more secret talks with Myanmar’s military-backed rulers in Tokyo, sources say appeared first on DVB .

Since signing ceasefires with the regime last year, locals say the two groups have swiftly moved to upgrade trade gates on the Myanmar-China border

A visitor finds that rising crime and forced conscription have had a chilling effect on life in Myanmar’s second-largest city