In a riverine battleground in western Myanmar, an entrepreneur hunts for reception using a makeshift bamboo antenna, his ...

Myanmar’s regime has recaptured the key town of Mobye in Pekon Township, southern Shan State, after a major offensive. The town on the main highway to Karenni (Kayah) State was seized by the Karenni ...

Elephants are playing important roles in the country’s civil war, but the conflict casts a dark shadow over their future.

The Ta'ang National Liberation Army is reporting repeated airstrikes on Kyaukme town in northern Shan State as the regime ...

Methamphetamine seizures across East Asia surged to 236 tons last year, a 24% jump from 2023, with the bulk of the ...

Methamphetamine and synthetic drug trafficking are exploding across Southeast Asia, with record-breaking seizures exposing ...

Three months after a devastating earthquake hit central Myanmar, hundreds of thousands of people in the country are still struggling to rebuild their lives and meet their basic daily needs. According ...

Officials in Myanmar have destroyed nearly $300 million worth of illegal drugs with massive drug-burning ceremonies taking ...

Myanmar burned down drugs worth nearly $300 million to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, ...

The drug burnings came nearly a month after U.N. experts warned of unprecedented levels of methamphetamine production and trafficking from Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle region and Myanmar’s eastern ...

BANGKOK, June 12 (Reuters) - A Chinese-backed militia is protecting new rare earth mines in eastern Myanmar, according to four people familiar with the matter, as Beijing moves to secure control ...

Extraction of gold in Shan State has surged in the years since the 2021 military coup in Myanmar; more recently, mounting evidence suggests rare earth mining is also expanding across the state.