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South Ayrshire councillors facing toughest ever budget this week

South Ayrshire Council faces a £37.8m financial shortfall over the next three years, but is using new PPP guidance to ease impact.

Daily Record

Calls to limit boat traffic to protect wildlife on restored Welsh canal

Conservationists say boats with propellers could destroy floating water-plantain on Montgomery canal

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Reversing Myanmar's internal strife

This month marks two anniversaries of ongoing conflicts in Europe and Southeast Asia, namely 12 months after Russia invaded Ukraine and two years since Myanmar's military seized power by toppling a democratically elected and civilian-led government under Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Asean and Myanmar: The next moves

Last week, the new Asean chair, Indonesia, convened the first two important meetings -- the Asean Coordinating Council and Asean Foreign Ministers' Retreat -- to discuss and follow up on ongoing and emerging issues that have to do with the relevancy of Asean and its centrality.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar's military takeover falters

Global news headlines this month will be focused on the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which falls on Feb 24. This external aggression, where a bigger state unilaterally takes territory from a smaller neighbour by force, can be juxtaposed to an internal subjugation in Myanmar, where a military…

Bangkok Post

Respect for refugees

On Feb 1, 2021, the world was shocked as the Myanmar military staged a coup, pushing the country formerly seen as a new poster-boy of democracy back to an Orwellian state.

Bangkok Post

Asean and the Myanmar morass

Two years ago, on Feb 1, the day that Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy were set to sit in a new parliament, the Myanmar military shocked the world by staging a deeply unpopular coup.

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EE masts blunder is an 'embarrassment and disgrace' for South Ayrshire Council, says Bob Shields

The Ayrshire Post columnist and Independent councillor, who long argued against the demolition of the Riverside flats, has slammed the farcical fallout now enveloping County Buildings.

Daily Record

Change tack on Myanmar

2023 will be a year of reckoning for Myanmar. In August next year, the country will hold an election, which many believe will be a one-horse race. Such a result will certainly be a headache for the international community, especially supranational bodies like the United Nations.

Bangkok Post

Confronting tragic fragmentation

As much as Russia's invasion of Ukraine created a "before and after" reality in western politics, the Feb 1, 2021, coup has also created such a new reality for Myanmar. The coup was a massive miscalculation by the senior general of Myanmar. Almost two years into the conflict, it is…

Bangkok Post

Celtics, NBA Twitter react to Boston’s 122-104 blowout of the Sacramento Kings

With the win, the Celtics improved to 15-4 overall while consolidating their grip on the top spot in the league's Eastern Conference standings.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Fashion brands grapple with greenwashing: ‘It’s not a human right to say something is sustainable’

While business imperatives for making sustainability claims are clear, being able to prove them has become a stumbling block for the industry

The Guardian - AU

China, Russia, India enabling Myanmar’s military rule: Report

Group of international legislators call on world to move beyond ASEAN’s ‘failed’ peace plan and recognise Mynamar’s NUG.

Al Jazeera

Massive 750 home development at risk over bizarre horse bridge demand in Ayrshire

Councillors rejected a second attempt by developers at Corton in Ayr to remove a requirement for a horse bridge over the A77.

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Time for Myanmar to face the music

Since its inception in 1967, Asean has survived a myriad of challenges -- some it has passed with flying colours, others less so.

Daily Record

Concerns for Ayr deer left out in bitter cold as council fail to rebuild shelter

A sign outside the animal compound said work on the shelter would begin in August.

Daily Record

Ayr's iconic Gaiety Theatre in plea to council for £450,000 cash

The Ayr Gaiety Partnership has provided details of its work over the last 12 months, as it prepares for decision on request for £450,000 in council support.

Daily Record

Council set to pay more than 700 South Ayrshire care workers' registration fees

South Ayrshire Council worked with the trade unions to develop proposals that would see registration fees of between £25 and £80 paid.

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UN envoy and SAC: more than tit for tat

When the United Nations Secretary-General's special envoy met recently with the military junta leader of a pariah state, the expectation was probably that it would start with an exchange of pleasantries and then be followed by some serious discussion. Of course, nobody would know what the two touched upon during…

Al Jazeera

‘Survival at any cost’: Myanmar generals move to cement power

Min Aung Hlaing firing military chiefs, senior politicians and moving against tycoons amid chaos triggered by 2021 coup.

Bangkok Post

Asean hardens position on Myanmar

The crisis in Myanmar has dominated this year’s Asean annual ministerial meeting in Phnom Penh due to Nay Pyi Taw’s growing intransigence as well as frustration among the bloc’s key members.

Al Jazeera

Myanmar generals banned from ASEAN until peace plan progress

Foreign ministers express disappointment at military administration’s failure to implement crisis plan.

Al Jazeera

Why is the Myanmar crisis such a challenge for ASEAN?

ASEAN ministers meet a week after the military hanged four activists, but look unlikely to take a tougher line.

Bangkok Post

When the environment gets sidelined

Myanmar's human, social and natural capital have been "rapidly diminishing" after the 2021 military coup, explains Win Myo Thu, a respected environmental campaigner who, for over three decades, has been working with local communities for better access to land, forest, water, food and a clean environment.

Chicago Tribune

Blackhawks form partnership with Sac and Fox Nation that includes language preservation and scholarships — but name concerns still linger

CHICAGO — Robert Williamson didn’t know what to make of the Chicago Blackhawks at first.

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