Four years after seizing power in a dawn coup that ousted an elected civilian government, Myanmar's embattled ruling generals are making their most concerted effort to gain legitimacy - by pushing to hold another election.
Myanmar marks four years of a bloody civil war on Saturday with anti-regime forces holding the upper hand on battlefields across the country amid growing hopes that the junta led by Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing will buckle and be defeated, perhaps by the end of the year.
A freeze on foreign assistance programs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump has led to cuts in services to refugees from war-torn Myanmar, including the shutdown of hospital care in camps in Thailand where more than 100,
A rickety wooden boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims landed Wednesday in Indonesia as the northernmost province of Aceh continued to receive the refugees fleeing persecution and political unr
Chinese ministry team visits Thailand to seek ways to tackle at least 36 major cyber scam gangs, days ahead of Thai leader’s China trip.
Drawing on leaked financial records, the monitoring group Justice For Myanmar (JFM) traced the fuel supplier Goldpetrol’s links to the Singapore-based Interra Resources and its politically exposed sha
Healthcare centres serving tens of thousands of refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border have been ordered shut after U.S. President Donald Trump froze most foreign aid last week, forcing Thai officials to transport the sickest patients to other facilities.
Myanmar’s junta now only controls 21% of the country. Even if the regime can be ousted, there are increasing fears the country will split along ethnic lines.
Chinese and Thai security authorities visited border areas in Tak province on Wednesday to work out measures to help victims of Chinese scam gangs based in Myawaddy across the border in Myanmar.The visit came a day after the provincial police commander removed the police chiefs of three districts in Tak - Mae Sot,
Cross-border trade between Bangladesh and Myanmar through Teknaf Land Port is in disarray as the Arakan Army, a Myanmar-based rebel group, disrupts ship movement along the Naf river estuary.
Kournikova, who stays mostly out of the spotlight, has been with singer Enrique Iglesias since 2001. Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the Agriculture Department, had told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House fired her Friday.
Chinese authorities have detained a key suspect in human trafficking cases linked to online scam networks in Myanmar.