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Myanmar authorities busted a massive online scam operation in Shan State and grabbed 28 Chinese nationals who were running telecom fraud and gambling schemes. Security forces found a whole compound near Taunghteik village with multiple buildings set up as hostels, offices, and warehouses, plus...

Myanmar authorities just wrapped up a three-day crackdown on sketchy trade operations and pulled in contraband worth over 375 million kyat. The haul came from raids across multiple regions where joint task forces nabbed everything from unlicensed motorcycles and fishing boats to dodgy electrical...

Myanmar cops busted some major drug hauls worth around 474 million kyat total across a couple of townships. The biggest grab happened when anti-drug officers stopped a Honda Odyssey near a village in Tangyan and found over 13 kilos of ketamine, some Happy Water liquid, and thousands of Erimin-5...

Myanmar just sent its canoe and kayak squad to Thailand for the 33rd Southeast Asian Games. The crew flew out early to get some extra training time at the actual competition venue before things kick off. Coach U Thet Lwin Win says they shipped their boats ahead by container, and the team is...

Kenya's ICT Cabinet Secretary William Kabogo pitched the idea of dropping a Kenya Village cultural hub in major Chinese cities, where people could check out Kenyan food, crafts, music, and tourism spots. He floated this during the launch of the fifth volume of Xi Jinping's governance book in...

President Ruto showed up at the National Police College in Embakasi and watched 1,837 chiefs plus assistant chiefs grab their certificates after finishing courses on paralegal work and security management. This marks the third batch from a program that has pushed almost 6,000 grassroots...

Africa's Voices of Change Film Festival is hitting Silverbird Galleria in Victoria Island for two days and bringing movies focused on kids' rights, disability advocacy, health equity, and environmental stuff. The whole setup mixes screenings with panel talks from people who actually work on...

Malta Guinness launched a campaign asking people to shout out their real ones while cracking open their drink on camera. Participants need to film themselves thanking someone authentic in their life, drop a line about how the beverage matches that energy, and post it with tags pointing at the...

Swedish eyewear designer Anna-Karin Karlsson hit up the University of Lagos Faculty of Creative Arts for a session set up by her Nigerian retail partner, Polo Avenue. Students threw together a wild performance with music and visuals before she broke down her journey into luxury design and...

Amma Abena dropped her second EP and basically turned it into a seven-track therapy session about whether any of us actually know where we're headed. Paddle to Your Resting Place kicks off with someone literally sprinting toward an unclear finish line while wondering if heaven even wants them...

President Mnangagwa gave Emmanuel Matatu his full General stripes and told him to keep tabs on global security shifts since warfare keeps changing with tech advances and terrorism threats. The commander-in-chief said Matatu needs to transform the Zimbabwe Defence Forces into a world-class outfit...

John Muyambo's kid, Nigel Tendai, is planning to keep the legendary drummer's whole vibe alive after the old man eventually hangs it up. The son works as a prison officer and plays drums for the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service Band, and he's teaming up with colleague Mthokozisi Ncube...

Spirit of Praise packed out ZIEC Hall 3 in Bulawayo with over 5,000 gospel heads showing up for the Next Level Tour and the local drop of their Volume 11 project. The South African crew brought heavy hitters like Ayanda Ntanzi, Dumi Mkokstad, Zaza Mokhethi, and Sindi Ntombela, while Zimbabwean...

Police locked up two security guards after a fatal shooting near DGL5 Mine in Bubi District left a 31-year-old man dead and another person wounded. Thabo Ngwenya got hit three times in the chest while walking past the mine to hit up a shop, and Nkosikhona Moyo caught a bullet in the arm after...

Bulawayo threw its annual Carols by Candlelight thing at the Amphitheatre, and around 500 people showed up to kick off the holiday season with singing and charity vibes. Deputy Mayor Edwin Ndlovu repped for Mayor David Coltart and mentioned the tradition has been running for almost 70 years...

The head honcho from the World Intellectual Property Organization landed in Zimbabwe for the first time and promised to help craft a national IP strategy. Director General Daren Tang met with President Mnangagwa at State House in Harare, and they talked about protecting homegrown innovation...

Bulawayo poultry farmers are getting squeezed by a day-old chick shortage right before the holiday rush, and some shady suppliers are allegedly making smallholder operations buy feed just to access the birds. The Competition and Tariffs Commission called out the practice as a market distortion...

This entrepreneur-slash-academic guy, Tedious Ncube, wrote about how China basically flipped the script on the whole development model that Western powers spent decades pushing on everyone else. He points out that lifting 800 million people out of poverty while building advanced tech systems on...

Kelvin Kaindu just wrapped the wildest coaching year after bouncing from Highlanders to Dynamos mid-season and somehow pulling off a cup win. The guy started with Bosso but ditched them when things got messy, and everyone figured his career was cooked. Instead, he kept Dynamos from getting...

Chicken Inn is riding high after three of their players made the Warriors provisional squad for the Afcon camp. Captain Xolani Ndlovu, vice-captain Donovan Bernard, and midfielder Joseph Tulani got the nod alongside other home-based talent like Andrew Mbeba, Washington Navaya, and Kevin Moyo...