Although many might regard it as an irrelevant backwater, it’s an emergency that should command the world’s attention ...

In many Asian cultures, the Lunar New Year is a celebration marking the arrival of spring and the start of a new year on the ...

Coming home from a shopping trip, the young man was beaten, forced into a car, and sold into conscription for 5 million kyats. Only at the last minute did he give his captors the slip.

Recent truces declared by ethnic armies show that China is still the only outside power that can intervene in Myanmar, but ...

The cargo ships carrying goods from Yangon to the Teknaf land port have been detained at the mouth of the Naf River by the ...

Yangon's most bustling Chinese New Year festive market in the Chinatown has not been held for years. This year, it will be held from Jan. 25 to Jan. 31, with lion and dragon dances, various ...

A Myanmar military guard of honour marches during a ceremony to mark the 71st anniversary of Martyrs’ Day in Yangon in 2018 [File: Ye Aung Thu/AFP] Al Jazeera: How are you trying to convince ...

Yangon. It’s a region where sporadic fighting has broken out between the Myanmar army and ethnic guerrilla forces. Tarlin Mg, a resident near the accident area, told The Associated Press that the ...

BANGKOK (AP) — An overnight landslide at a jade mining area in northern Myanmar ... about 950 kilometers (600 miles) north of Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon. It’s a region where sporadic ...

The area on the Thai-Myanmar border has been wracked with instability ... The Japanese Embassy in Yangon is trying to confirm a report from a Thai civic group that Japanese are among those press ...