Despite formulating a Five-Point Consensus in 2021, divisions within ASEAN continue to undermine its capacity to mount a ...
With the civil war showing no sign of ending, the country’s economic prospects will remain “bleak” in 2025-26.
In February 2024, Myanmar’s junta declared mandatory military service for men aged 18 to 35 and women aged 18 to 27. Those ...
Caught between conflict and survival, Myanmar's displaced communities are turning to poppy farming, fuelling a booming opium ...
Myanmar’s junta leader, Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, announced during a visit to Belarus that the country would hold national ...
A local resistance group fighting against the military government in Myanmar has acknowledged responsibility for the killing last week of a Buddhist monk and his disciple in the country’s eastern ...
Caught between ethnic offensives in the east and west, the regime now faces a growing threat at its industrial-military core.
Myanmar's military junta has announced plans for elections in December or January -- scheduling the first poll since it ...
Some Foreigners Pulled Out of Myanmar Scam Centres Face Struggle to Get Home By Devjyot Ghoshal and Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds of foreign nationals pulled out of scam compounds ...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds of foreign nationals pulled out of scam compounds in Myanmar during a crackdown on centres run by criminal gangs have little food, scant healthcare and filthy toilets ...
U.N. and other experts have said Myanmar’s judiciary likewise is under the influence of the ruling military. Sai Zaw Thaike, 41, was arrested in May 2023, in the Rakhine state capital of Sittwe ...
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Eighty-four Indonesians freed from scam centers in Myanmar were set to return home Friday as the repatriation of thousands of such workers after a crackdown strains ...