Police had seized the massive contraband in November last year. It was found on a trawler with six Myanmarese crew members on ...

More than a hundred shaven-headed men pour out of their Yangon hostel around 6 am for a day of weightlifting, karate drills, ...

The fall of Mansi to KIA-led forces on Wednesday is expected to bring an intensification of clashes for control of Bhamo ...

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Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the leader of Myanmar’s military regime, granted pardons for 5,864 domestic prisoners and 180 foreign nationals, who will be deported, according to state-run MRTV.

A Japanese filmmaker sentenced to 10 years in jail in Myanmar has backed calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed. Toru Kubota, who was arrested while covering a protest in Yangon and whose case led ...

Lost' young men - Aung, 32, who asked for his full name not to be used for professional reasons, had qualified as a doctor and was running his own clinic when he tried meth for the first time. Three ...

Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers wants to play all 17 games this season and his desire to keep playing allowed him to set an NFL record on Sunday afternoon. Gregory Rousseau sacked Rodgers for the 566th ...

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Min Aung Hlaing, the junta's leader, partied with coursemates from the 19th intake of the Defense Services Academy just days after his regime's Western Command in Rakhine State ...

An Independent TV documentary published today, entitled Cancelled: The Rise and Fall of Aung San Suu Kyi, lays bare her fall from grace. She is no longer the heroic figure she was in the long ...

Also this week, the Air Force chief urged escalation of a campaign that has killed over 1,000 civilians, and the ...

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