A military air strike in central Myanmar 's Mandalay region killed five people and injured two others on Aug. 9, according to ...

Myanmar Thursday said it would look into incendiary comments by the country’s most notorious hardline monk who branded a UN envoy a “whore” after strong condemnation from the United Nation ...

Myanmar's firebrand Buddhist monk Wirathu has openly endorsed President Thein Sein's ruling party in the Nov. 8 general election, saying Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party was "full of themselves ...

Myint Swe, the figurehead acting president handpicked by the military junta that seized power from Myanmar's democratically ...

Despite the danger, women have been at the forefront of the movement, rebuking the generals who ousted a female civilian leader. A protester offered roses to the police in Yangon, Myanmar, last ...

Amid Myanmar's unrelenting crisis, it is women who are quietly reshaping the nation's future. As the country reels from military violence, institutional collapse, and humanitarian catastrophe ...

Muslims make up about 4% of Myanmar’s 54m people. Some claim to be Bamar, the country’s main ethnic group. Others are the descendants of immigrants from India during the British colonial period.

Naw Susanna Hla Hla Soe is the minister of Women, Youths and Children Affairs in the National Unity Government, the organization that the European Parliament recognizes as the legitimate government of ...

Myanmar's U.N. Ambassador Kyaw Tint Swe said many of those detained had now been released. "To date ... a total of 2,095 people, including 722 monks, have been released," he said.

If women’s voices are not part of this process, the outcome may further entrench the already deeply unequal status of women. Take for instance the ever-complicated issue of land rights in Myanmar.

Myanmar women discuss discrimination Home News News Detail 08/30/2019 SUNY Cortland hosted two women activists from Myanmar on Thursday, Sept. 5, for a day of conversations about the collision of ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s former president Thein Sein has shed his formal attire and his hair to join the Buddhist monkhood. Thein Sein’s ordination as a monk took place Monday, offic… ...