BANGKOK (Reuters) -A Chinese-backed militia is protecting new rare earth mines in eastern Myanmar, according to four people ...

Beijing is heavily reliant on Myanmar for the rare earth metals and oxides needed to produce them. Read more at ...

A satellite image of Hkakabo Razi, the tallest peak in Myanmar. Credit: NASA, Landsat 8 ETM + Hkakabo Razi is an intimidating ...

Ethnic armed groups must choose between remaining resource gatekeepers for China or using their mineral wealth to pursue ...

"The UWSA functions as a key instrument for China to maintain strategic leverage along the Myanmar-China border and exert influence over other ethnic armed groups," he said. Some of those fighters ...

Myanmar junta chief Senior General Min Aung ... Ultimately, it has become a symbolic instrument in need of reform rather than outright abandonment. A new ceasefire, a new opening The civil war ...

Whether it is Pakistan, China, Bangladesh or Myanmar, the unfinished business of history haunts the region every day ...

Myanmar is on “a path to self-destruction” if violence in the conflict-wracked Southeast Asian nation doesn’t end, the U.N.