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

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 ...

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

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 ...

In February 2021, Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup, and the country’s economy, already hammered by the pandemic, started to buckle. Prices soared and May’s paycheck, the equivalent ...

Students of the Women’s Empowerment School run by the Karenni Women’s Association (KNWO) take part in a graduation ceremony on the border between Thailand and Myanmar’s Karenni State, March ...

An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local charity ...

Across the country, over 1,600 people were confirmed dead, as of Saturday night, and over 3,000 injured in the worst earthquake to hit Myanmar in more than a century. Many fear that the number of ...

Women in traditional dresses take part in a shinpyu ceremony in a village near the city of Myeik in the far south of Myanmar. Credit: Depositphotos Myanmar’s current conscription system is an ...

Hundreds of men and women stand in rows, divided by nationality, in the courtyard of a white-walled compound, flanked by armed guards in fatigues.