A vast mine run by the country's most powerful ethnic armed group roiled the global tin market when huge quantities of high grade ore were discovered in 2013. This tin has compromised the global ...

BANGKOK — Opponents of Myanmar’s military government on Wednesday welcomed the latest sanctions imposed by the European Union, the U.K. and Canada on individuals and entities supplying ...

The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar has warned that the Southeast Asian nation is in crisis, with conflict escalating, ...

In a drug treatment center in a wooden stilt house deep in the Thai jungle, young refugees from Myanmar wait patiently for the prick of an acupuncture needle. They are among the thousands who have ...

Myanmar is mired in crisis as conflict escalates, with criminal networks “out of control” and human suffering at unprecedented levels, a United Nations report has warned. UN special envoy for Myanmar, ...

YANGON (Bernama-Xinhua): Myanmar authorities seized 3.98 million ... The suspects have been charged under the country's drug laws, and further investigation is ongoing, it added.

BANGKOK (AP) — Three well-armed militias launched a surprise joint offensive in northeastern Myanmar a year ago, breaking a strategic stalemate with the regime's military with rapid gains of ...

Myanmar was once an insider tip for travelers and a symbol of the global triumph of democracy. Now it is engulfed in yet another civil war. The story of the rise and fall of a nation. A decade ago ...

Myanmar’s military has been ramping up its use of drones, deploying a combination of retrofitted commercial drones and customized military munitions to carry out a torrent of deadly strikes ...

Myanmar’s worsening violence took center stage at this week’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Vientiane, Laos, as regional leaders grappled with the inability to implement ...

Myanmar – Scattered across the lush, rolling hills of southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region, rebel fighters stationed at checkpoints inspect cars and trucks traveling towards a nearby town ...

BANGKOK--Thai authorities said on Wednesday they had detained a Myanmar tycoon suspected of drug trafficking, who three sources said was linked to the upper echelons of Myanmar’s ruling military ...