The passing of Myanmar’s acting president last week provides an occasion to contemplate his life and Myanmar’s future, say ...

YANGON: UN investigators say they have recorded "systematic" torture in Myanmar's military-run detention facilities including ...

The junta’s murderous repression, hare-brained economic policies, and forced subscription have drained the country of its most precious resource: its young people.

YANGON: An air strike on a Myanmar civilian supply convoy trapped between junta troops and anti-coup rebels battling outside ...

State bordering China harbors rich deposits of rare earth minerals, essential for making everything from electric cars to defense systems.

The Myanmar junta has beaten, strangled, electrocuted and raped people held in detention facilities in a campaign of “systematic torture,” United Nations investigators have alleged.

Myanmar's authorities have seized 171.6 kg of heroin in central Myanmar's Mandalay region, the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control said on Thursday.

Myint Swe, who became Myanmar's acting president under controversial circumstances after the military seized power from the ...

A figurehead leader, he had little real power but did endorse measures that allowed the country’s generals to extend their ...

One of Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic groups pledged on Monday to block elections in areas it controls, rejecting polls the ...

In April 2025, the World Food Programme was forced to cut aid to one million people nationwide. Read more at straitstimes.com ...