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In a riverine battleground in western Myanmar, an entrepreneur hunts for reception using a makeshift bamboo antenna, his ...
An anti-military resistance organization says that it shot down a Myanmar military fighter jet in a combat zone in the ...
Myanmar's ruling junta said on Friday it has already discharged 93 minors from military service, responding to a United Nations report last month accusing it and its allies of recruiting over 400 ...
The junta’s jury-rigged “peace forum” with a handful of regime-aligned or noncommittal groups is solely aimed at gaining ...
Chinese meddling and internecine squabbles threaten the existence of the Federal Political Negotiation and Consultative Committee, an alliance of Shan State’s armed groups.
Some priests celebrate Masses under trees as they have abandoned their parish church, fearing junta bombardment ...
Myanmar’s civil war is unwinnable under the circumstances. Supporting Kachin independence could secure rare earth supplies, ...
On March 28, 2025, a major earthquake with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.7 struck Mandalay, central Myanmar (referred to as ...
Elephants are playing important roles in the country’s civil war, but the conflict casts a dark shadow over their future.
"To date, only 18 suspected minor cases remain pending verification," a government-run committee said in a statement published in the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper. It is unclear when the 93 ...
In recent years, people in Myanmar have endured a military coup, civil war, enforced conscription, aerial bombardment and a devastating earthquake. A new hardship landed Thursday morning, as ...
Southern Shan State, Myanmar – Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of chocolate-coloured raw opium in each hand like a human weighing scales.