Myanmar’s military on Thursday nominally transferred power to a civilian-led interim government ahead of a planned election, with the junta chief remaining in charge of the war-torn country in his ...
Myanmar's military has announced the first phase of a general election to be held in late December, in a poll widely seen as an attempt to lend the junta legitimacy following its 2021 coup. State-run ...
The once-thriving town of Kyaukme in Myanmar’s Shan State is in shambles, an Associated Press journalist has confirmed on ...
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 ...
Myanmar’s military staged a coup in 2021, strangling democratic reforms and jailing much of the country’s civilian leadership. Three years on, the Southeast Asian nation is teetering on the brink of ...
In recent years, at least 20 hydropower dams have been proposed for the Salween River, one of Asia’s last free-flowing rivers. Southeast Asia’s second-longest river originates in Tibet, then moves ...
Washing copper ore in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of the cobalt production process. Photo courtesy of Fairphone under Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC ...