Before the last emperor was overthrown in the 20th century, it resisted European colonization longer ... identity of what is known today as Myanmar. Although the state and its territory remain, Burma ...

Seventy years ago in April 1955, twenty-nine delegations representing countries in Africa and Asia convened in the city of ...

In these mountains the only money is opium,” General Tuan Hsi-wen (段希文), leader of the KMT’s 5th army, famously told a British journalist in 1967 ... three-way border region between Thailand, Myanmar ...

British taxpayers are set to swallow a loss of just over £10bn on the 2008 rescue of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as the government prepares to confirm that it has offloaded its last-remaining ...

The French authorities have seized a British ship accused of fishing without a licence in the country’s waters (Picture: Library image by Gerard Bottino/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ...

KATHMANDU, – A British climber beat his own record on Sunday for the most climbs of Mount Everest by a non-Sherpa, making his 19th ascent of the world’s highest mountain, a hiking official said.

New water analyses are to be carried out at Lady’s Mile beach on Monday after high levels of enterococci bacteria were detected in the area’s seawaters over the weekend, prompting the British ...

The use of e-gates by British holidaymakers in the European Union is still not guaranteed, a minister has indicated. Following six months of talks, Sir Keir Starmer unveiled his post-Brexit trade ...

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Naypyitaw [Myanmar], May 19 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 3.9 on the Richter scale jolted the country of Myanmar late Sunday, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) stated. As per NCS ...