Regime deputy Soe Win orders progress on Kyaukphyu SEZ-port before June deadline despite onslaught by Arakan Army.

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 ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A local resistance group fighting against Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged responsibility for the killing last week of a Buddhist monk and his disciple in the country’s ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

A Catholic church in Chin, Myanmar's only Christian-majority state, has been bombed and destroyed amid an ongoing conflict between the military junta and resistance forces that continues to ...

Myanmar Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing, during his visit to Belarus, announced that his country's election is slated for ...

YANGON, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) - Myanmar's police have destroyed 20 acres of opium poppy fields in Panglong town in Loilem township of Shan state, state-run daily Myanma Alinn reported on Thursday. The ...

MAE SOT, Thailand — A new crackdown on online scam centers has led to over 7,000 people from around the world being held in a Myanmar border town awaiting repatriation, and those helping them say the ...

The council also said it would establish at least 16 township-level administrative subdivisions in the Karenni territories—including Shan State’s Pekhon Township—where the junta and previous Myanmar g ...

The Arakan Army (AA), the ethnic armed organization for the Arakan (Rakhine) people, has now seized control of almost all of Myanmar’s Rakhine State, with the notable exceptions of the capital of ...

(250218) -- YANGON, Feb. 18, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 17, 2025 shows law enforcers processing arrested illegal foreign entrants in Myawady township of Kayin State, Myanmar. (Some ...