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'Alarming' hunger crisis in Myanmar's Rakhine, WFP warns Around 16 million people in Myanmar are acutely food insecure, WFP says Rohingya are arriving in Bangladesh in much poorer health, aid group ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military has taken back control of a major district capital in Shan State more than a year after losing it to an armed ethnic minority rebel group, state media reported on ...

ousted an elected civilian government. Some 3.6 million people are displaced across the war-torn nation, according to the United Nations, and a lack of funding has left millions of vulnerable people ...

In the scramble for access to the nation’s rare earth deposits, a non-state armed group holds the cards. Cadets of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) preparing for military drills at the group’s ...

A Chinese court sentenced 16 people linked to a notorious Myanmar-based telecoms fraud group to death on Monday for crimes including fraud, drug trafficking and prostitution. According to state ...

CHIANG MAI -- Myanmar's military has deployed drones, ships and armed soldiers using motorized paragliders to safeguard the operations, output and expansion of two Chinese-run mines, according to ...

Report details systematic destruction of Rohingya villages Myanmar military denies genocide in Rakhine operation Private firms aided military in bulldozing villages, report says IIMM faces funding ...

The 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday. A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday, resulting in mounting casualties and flattened ...

Among Myanmar’s diverse demographic groups, the young generation has been one of the most adversely affected cohorts of the 2021 military coup. Heightened insecurity, the crippled economy, shrinking ...

JOHOR BAHRU - Scam centres in Myanmar are pushing their “employees” to the brink by forcing them to achieve daily targets of up to US$50,000 (S$64,000) or face severe punishments, said the Malaysia ...

GENEVA – UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on Thursday completed a three-day visit to Myanmar, where he witnessed the grave consequences of unrelenting violence and conflict that have ...