“President U Myint Swe passed away at 8.28 am this morning,” said a junta statement, adding the 74-year-old had died in a hospital in the capital Naypyidaw. “It is hereby announced that the funeral of ...

Myanmar produced an estimated 610 tonnes in 2011, making it the world's second-biggest opium supplier after Afghanistan, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-occupied ruby mining hub killed 13 people on Saturday, according to a resident and a ...

Newly released satellite images have unveiled the shocking scale of destruction in Myanmar, following a devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck on Friday. Captured by Planet Labs and ...

A military fighter jet crashed and burned in an area that has seen intense fighting during Myanmar's civil war, with a rebel group claiming to have shot it down while state-run media reported it ...

Myanmar’s military leadership lifted a state of emergency more than four years after it took power in a coup, a necessary ...

Bangladesh said Myanmar drones and helicopters had violated its air space three times—on September 10, 12 and 14—and it had called in a top Myanmar embassy official in Dhaka to complain.