Fighters from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army have seized another town on a strategic highway to China, the group and a resident said, in the latest setback for the embattled junta. Northern Shan ...

Frontier reporter Naw Betty Han remembers a friend and fellow exiled Myanmar journalist who died on October 5 in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. Like other Myanmar journalists in exile, I find ...

Death, detention and dissolution have decimated Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, easing the way for groups backed by Myanmar’s ruling military to claim victory at elections expected next year, ...

Morning traffic is common in Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial capital, where motorbikes are banned and roads are often too narrow to accommodate the multitudes heading to work. But on October 1, stalled ...

Myanmar has never ranked highly in global gender equality tables, but improvements were made during the reform years. The United Nations says patterns of abuse and gender-based violence have ...

Myanmar will send a representative to an annual regional leaders’ summit this week for the first time in three years, a diplomatic source told Agence France-Presse Tuesday, as the junta struggles to ...

Rohingya refugee Syed fled Rakhine State for a second time last month, after he was forced to fight alongside the military that drove his family out of their homeland in 2017. Syed, whose name has ...

Myanmar is a football-loving nation. But the sport is proving to be more than just fun for youths in the Thai border town of Mae Sot who have fled conflict or economic collapse. It’s giving them ...

Military regime forces are building fences and evacuating nearby villages to defend Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State. But they’re not allowing people to leave – even their own staff. One resident ...

Thousands of people who left their homes and belongings behind because of conflict have now been displaced yet again by floods. Doh Athan has heard from some of these IDPs, who are now struggling for ...

Myanmar’s embattled junta on Thursday invited armed groups opposed to its rule to stop fighting and start talks to bring peace, after three-and-a-half years of conflict. The unexpected offer comes ...

Census takers guarded by police and soldiers took to the streets of Myanmar on Wednesday for a national survey that anti-junta groups have urged people to boycott. The ruling junta is pressing ahead ...