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 ...

Even if India sources ore from KIA-held pits, processing know-how, reagents, and capital at many Kachin sites are Chinese. India is eyeing Myanmar’s armed rebel Kachin Independence Army (KIA) as a ...

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 ...

New York – Members of the Rohingya community who fled violence in Myanmar have addressed a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) conference seeking to bring attention to the suffering of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...