In the scramble for access to the nation’s rare earth deposits, a non-state armed group holds the cards. Cadets of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) preparing for military drills at the group’s ...

Police have detained a Myanmar national on suspicion of murdering his wife at a house in Kampung Kuala Kuang, Chemor, near Ipoh. Ipoh police chief Abang Zainal Abidin Abang Ahmad said the 37-year-old ...

The 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday. A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday, resulting in mounting casualties and flattened ...

Among Myanmar’s diverse demographic groups, the young generation has been one of the most adversely affected cohorts of the 2021 military coup. Heightened insecurity, the crippled economy, shrinking ...

CHIANG MAI -- Myanmar's military has deployed drones, ships and armed soldiers using motorized paragliders to safeguard the operations, output and expansion of two Chinese-run mines, according to ...

India is eyeing Myanmar’s armed rebel Kachin Independence Army (KIA) as a potential new partner to source heavy rare-earth elements, Reuters reported earlier this month. State-owned Indian Rare Earths ...

A Chinese court sentenced 16 people linked to a notorious Myanmar-based telecoms fraud group to death on Monday for crimes including fraud, drug trafficking and prostitution. According to state ...

BANGKOK, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Myanmar civil society groups said on Tuesday they are suing the Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor, alleging it shared customer data with the Southeast Asian nation’s ruling ...

YANGON - After the 2017 expulsion of the Muslim minority Rohingya from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the military destroyed villages and mosques and repurposed their lands for security outposts, according ...

Oct 1 (Reuters) - Hunger is rising in Myanmar, the impoverished Southeast Asian country that has been ravaged by conflict since a 2021 military coup ousted an elected civilian government. Some 3.6 ...