Officials in Myanmar have destroyed nearly $300 million worth of illegal drugs with massive drug-burning ceremonies taking ...

Pope Leo XIV also met for the first time with the order’s grand master, Fra’ John Dunlap, at the Vatican on June 23.

Myanmar has been a textbook case of the tragedies of socialism. While people are familiar with Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who tried to lead the ...

President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday evening to ban travel from several countries to the US, citing security risks.

The head of Myanmar’s military council, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, granted the clemency order to reduce the sentences in five cases against Suu Kyi in which she was convicted for violating ...

Children have been born here,” said Nido, a refugee himself who fled Myanmar nearly 20 years ago. “The situation in Myanmar now is very terrible,” he said. “A lot of conflict and fighting.

The Myanmar junta's mandatory military service law has sparked fear, ... Myanmar: Young people attempt to flee ahead of conscription order. 26 February 2024. Share Save. Kelly Ng. BBC News, Singapore.

Ming Xuechang, 69, is a former member of Myanmar’s Shan State legislature and a former member of the Kokang Leadership Committee. One of his sons, Ming Guoping, a militia squadron leader in ...

Myanmar’s military drafts thousands in first year of conscription drive. Forced conscription has failed to change the course of Myanmar’s grinding civil war, and many are refusing to serve.

Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta meets with Aung Myo Min, minister of human rights of the National Unity Government of Myanmar, in Dili, Timor-Leste, August 23, 2023.

Yangon, Myanmar — Myanmar's junta on Wednesday extended the state of emergency by six months, again delaying fresh polls it has promised to hold as it battles opposition to its coup.

Myanmar's conscription law was first introduced in 2010 but had not been enforced until on 10 February the junta said it would mandate at least two years of military service for all men aged 18 to ...