Beijing’s envoy has urged the KIA and AA to stop fighting the junta in Bhamo and Rakhine State for better ties with China.

YANGON, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Over 1,000 households have been displaced in northern Myanmar's Kachin state due to the rising Ayeyarwady River, according to the Myanmar Fire Services Department on Monday.

The KIA is seeking leverage against neighbouring China, which supports the junta and has invested heavily in rare earths mining in Myanmar's Kachin state, according to two people familiar with the ...

Myanmar is caught in a scramble for minerals. Their exploitation is causing deaths and environmental harm in the country's ...

Second, KIA forces have also sought to extend their area of control to include the towns along the border with China. Third, the KIA has attempted to seize possession of the major mining areas in ...

State-run media in Myanmar report that a military helicopter has crashed in a combat zone in the country’s north while returning from a mission to deliver supplies to army outposts.

The letter comes as China-hawk Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has been tapped to be President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of state. Rubio's appointment still needs to be confirmed by the Senate.

Samuel Paparo, the U.S. Indo-Pacific commander, described in stark terms the increasing risk of war over Taiwan, and the declining state of U.S. preparedness to deter China from resorting to ...

BANGKOK, March 28 (Reuters) - When armed rebels seized northern Myanmar's rare-earths mining belt in October, they dealt a blow to the country's embattled military junta - and wrested control of a ...