Myanmar’s military junta has pardoned nearly 5,000 prisoners as part of an annual new year’s amnesty, but there are no indications that prominent political prisoners like ousted leader Aung San Suu ...

The head of Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new ...

The earthquake was strongly felt in Yangon, the largest city of Myanmar. Several places in Southwest China's Yunnan province also experienced noticeable tremors.

Several Southeast Asian countries are kicking off their annual water festival holiday, an occasion for merrymaking during ...

Forced conscription has failed to change the course of Myanmar’s grinding civil war, and many are refusing to serve.

This is expected to support about 8,000 households across the country’s affected regions. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

YANGON—Myanmar’s garment manufacturers have warned that US tariffs threaten to hobble the country’s recovery from a ...

After briefings with humanitarian teams in Yangon, Mr. Fletcher travelled to Myanmar’s second largest city, Mandalay, near the epicentre of the quake, where 80 per cent of the buildings are estimated ...

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Staff at its main Yangon office began contacting colleagues and church partners in the Mandalay-Sagaing region, the epicenter of the 7.7-magnitude earthquake that hit the war-torn Southeast Asian ...

“The people need food, shelter, medicine, and all lifesaving materials,” said Bo, the archbishop of Yangon, in an interview ... “poignant scenes of men and women rushing through the roads ...

Meanwhile, the Philippine Embassy in Myanmar (Yangon) said in an advisory that they are preparing to deploy a team to Mandalay for an on-the-ground assessment of the status of Filipinos in the area.