Washington’s decision came after junta leader General Min Aung Hlaing sent a letter, dated July 11, to Mr. Trump seeking a ...

The head of Myanmar’s military government made a rare appearance at a ceremony on Saturday honoring General Aung San, an ...

October 22, 2010 - Cyclone Giri hits Myanmar leaving at least 27 people dead and close to 75,000 homeless. November 7, 2010 - Myanmar holds its first elections in 20 years.

Here are some key facts about Myanmar, a resource-rich former British colony that has spent most of its post-independence history under authoritarian military dictatorships.

Myanmar rescuers search for survivors of Friday’s earthquake beneath a damaged building in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo) ...

The occasional rescue may have helped to keep hope alive over the weekend, but they were the lucky ones. Building after building in Myanmar's second largest city, Mandalay, and beyond lie in ruins.

News World News Earthquake compounds Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis as death toll passes 2,000 The 7.7 magnitude quake hit Friday, with an epicenter near Myanmar’s second-largest city of Mandalay.

Three years ago, Myanmar's military escalated its persecution of the Rohingya -- a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority -- with a sustained, violent campaign of murder, rape and beatings that cleared ...

Nearly half of Myanmar’s people now live in poverty, according to the World Bank. This calamity has forced a new cadre of women in Myanmar into sex work: doctors, teachers, nurses and other ...

A major, 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Myanmar on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. At a depth of about six miles, the quake was relatively shallow, which made it ...

Unemployment: 4% (2017 est.) Other Facts: Prono: MEE'-an-mar Myanmar shares borders with China, India, Laos, Bangladesh and Thailand. The United States officially still calls the country Burma.