YANGON, Myanmar – Other nations and relief organizations are moving to help Myanmar cope with floods that have caused 69 deaths and affected another 260,000 people after more than a month of heavy ...
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. independent investigator on Myanmar said Wednesday that “hardened” troops are being deployed from a number of border areas in northern Rakhine state to some cities, ...
In late January, a close friend from Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar, sent out a message over Viber: “The Event” was about to occur. That was the code word for what we’d been dreading—a military ...
U.S. government officials stopped Myanmar’s military from moving $1 billion they had at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The sources said that ...
The following text is extracted from a letter from Stuart Chapman, Chair of the Myanmar Working Group, to Secretaries of the Network Executive Team and the Conservation Committee and provides an ...
BANGKOK — The jungle-covered hills of Shan state in Myanmar might seem an unlikely outpost along global trade routes. But it is the remote region, wracked by ethnic conflict and undisturbed by normal ...
In ways big and small, Asia is still living with the tainted legacy of imperialism. Consider the debate now underway in Myanmar. Because the imperial tongue found it difficult to pronounce Myanmar, ...
YANGON, MyanmarYANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar began transferring some political prisoners from remote jails to facilities closer to their families on Wednesday, according to a security official, but there ...