This shows a supermarket of Aeon Orange in Yangon, Myanmar in July 2024. (Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese business executive has returned home from Myanmar following his release from more ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh will buy 100,000 tonnes of rice from Myanmar, putting aside a rift over the Rohingya refugee crisis as the government races to overcome a shortage of the staple food for ...

A worker carries bags of rice from a cargo boat at a jetty in Yangon, Myanmar, March 11, 2025. Myanmar's exports of rice and broken rice in the first 11 months of the 2024-25 fiscal year reached over ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese business executive who was detained in Myanmar for more than a month has been released after being convicted of violating rice pricing rules, officials said Tuesday. Hiroshi ...

Aug 25 (Reuters) - Myanmar is planning to temporarily restrict rice exports to control rising domestic prices, an official of its rice industry body said on Friday, joining India, the world's biggest ...

YANGON (Xinhua): A total of 1,002.71 tons of reserved rice was being distributed through the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve program to flood-affected areas in Myanmar, according to the ...

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When Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, also known as Burma, on May 2 and 3, a 12-foot wall of saltwater and heavy rains soaked the low-lying delta region, which produces about a third of the country’s ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — Small quantities of drinking water, food, tents and other vital supplies reached Myanmar’s devastated Irrawaddy Delta region Wednesday, as bodies floated uncollected in swollen ...

THAR YAR SU, Myanmar (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Opening the lid of her rice cooker, a luxury bought when power finally came to their village in central Myanmar three years ago, Tin Aye scooped out ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese business executive has returned home from Myanmar following his release from more than a month of detention after being convicted of violating rice pricing rules, his company ...

TOKYO — A Japanese business executive who was detained in Myanmar for more than a month has been released after being convicted of violating rice pricing rules, officials said Tuesday. Hiroshi ...