Houses burned. Neighbours killed. Hope vanishing.” With those stark words, General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock opened a high-level UN conference on Tuesday, as alarm rises over the impact of ...

By Vibhu Mishra"Houses burned. Neighbours killed. Hope vanishing." With those stark words, General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock opened a ...

Since 2017, Myanmar’s military has killed tens of thousands of Rohingya and exiled hundreds of thousands more to neighboring Bangladesh; in early 2025, the junta cut off food and supplies to the ...

The group of swimmers was pulled over the edge of the Ohn Chaw Waterfall in Myanmar during a river surge on Monday, Sept. 29 ...

Bloody fighting between Myanmar's army and a separatist movement is proving an "insurmountable barrier" to the return of the country's displaced Rohingya minority, a UN official warned Tuesday.

Bertil Lintner reviews new books about U Thant, the Burmese schoolmaster who helmed the UN during its heyday, and about Vladimir Putin’s desperate attempts to find support in the East.

Cadets of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) preparing for military drills at the group’s headquarters in Laiza, Kachin State, Myanmar, October 2016. An American businessman based in Yangon recently ...

Cambodia and Thailand engaged in five days of deadly fighting in July and tensions remain high two months later, but images and clips shared online alongside claims it shows "Cambodian troops ...

Myanmar was hit by a 4.7 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday at a shallow depth, following a 3.2 magnitude tremor on Monday. The nation's location between four tectonic plates and the active Sagaing Fault ...

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 ...

Second earthquake being 3.2 magnitude in the same day shook Myanmar on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS). As per the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 60km. In a ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 struck Myanmar on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. As per the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 10km, making it ...