The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

The United States on Thursday condemned the Myanmar military authorities' arrest and detention of a Christian religious leader and called for his immediate release and for all charges against him to be dropped.

Negotiations on a code of conduct (COC) for the South China Sea will be intensified this year, Indonesian and Chinese officials said on Wednesday, as the region frets over China's assertiveness in the strategic waterway.

CHIANG RAI: The first Thailand-Myanmar friendship bridge, linking Mae Sai district and Tachilek, was reopened on Monday morning nearly three years after it was closed because of the Covid-19 epidemic, much to the delight of people on both sides of the border.

Since the February 2021 military takeover in Myanmar, landmines planted by all sides of the conflict have become responsible for skyrocketing civilian casualties, including children increasingly as victims

The revival of opium production in the Golden Triangle comes on top of a booming synthetic drug industry.

Myanmar's pro-democracy forces want the United States to issue stronger sanctions against the junta that seized power in the country two years ago and increase funding for pro-democratic forces, the parallel civilian government's foreign minister told Reuters on Friday

Experts say reduction would be ‘catastrophic’ for hundreds of thousands living in Bangladesh camps.

Dr Cynthia Maung, the founder and director of the Mae Tao clinic in Tak's Mae Sot district and an ethnic Karen born in Myanmar, has applied for Thai citizenship after helping to provide health services for patients along the border for three decades.

Although it will not lead to a no-confidence vote, the general debate in Thailand's parliament this week has further weakened the coalition government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, undermining its chances of re-election as the next general election looms. Among the many bombshell allegations of corruption, cronyism and sheer incompetence…