Rare-earth mining in Myanmar is polluting the Mekong River with toxic metals, threatening ecosystems, food security, and water supplies across mainland Southeast Asia.Ecologists are warning that ...

Far from stemming flow of weapons to ethnic armies fighting its ally, the junta, Beijing’s intervention will supercharge Chinese smuggling syndicates.

Children were killed and injured at the boarding school in Kyauktaw Township in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state, the U.N.

The Myanmar military has recently launched a new offensive in different parts of the country, determined to claw back territory it has steadily lost since the coup of Feb 1, 2021. These operations, ...

Myanmar’s Kachin state, near the border with China, is a global hub for rare earth minerals. But the dearth of regulations over mining these resources has come at a steep cost to the area’s ...

Robert Mickens has been reporting and commenting on the Vatican and the Catholic Church the past four decades through his ...

Myanmar's junta acknowledged Monday its long-promised election would not be held in about one in seven national parliament ...

Refugees exist in a precarious gray zone – tolerated but not recognized, caught between India’s domestic politics and Myanmar’s internal conflicts.

An armed group and local media reports say Myanmar’s military has conducted an airstrike on two private schools in a village, ...

China’s oil and gas pipelines across Myanmar enrich Beijing and the junta, but villagers along the route face threats to their livelihood and live in a climate of fear.