1, 2021, the revolution that began with peaceful demonstrations has escalated into a full-blown armed struggle, now about to end its fourth year. The landscape of Myanmar’s conflict has dramatically ...

The armed wing of the long-established, powerful ethnic national organisation Karen National Union (KNU) has been battling a breakaway group near the city of Dawei in Myanmar’s southernmost region ...

The recent abduction of a Chinese TV actor to Myanmar and his subsequent release is shedding new light on the lengths to which human traffickers operating online scam centers in the war-torn ...

Landslides in the jade mining area of Hpakant in Myanmar have been a regular theme of this blog over the years. This is a mining area on an epic scale, but it is also a true wild west, with poor ...

"The Fighting Seabees" was nominated for one Oscar. Starring Errol Flynn ("The Charge of the Light Brigade"), "Objective, Burma!" tells the fictitious story of a group of U.S. WWII paratroopers ...

The impressive collection included the Distinguished Flying Cross, the 1939-1945 Star, the Atlantic Star, the Burma Star, the Defence Medal, the War Medal, the Coronation Medal and the 2nd Class ...

Collin J. Meisel receives funding from the U.S. government, but the results and views expressed here are his own and do not represent the views of the USG. With major conflicts in Africa, the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BANGKOK (AP) — An overnight landslide ...

A joint statement urged the military regime and all armed actors in Burma to de-escalate violence, respect international human rights laws, protect civilians, and allow full, safe, and unimpeded ...

To find the trade-off between communication and sensing (C&S) in the system, we formulate a multi-objective optimization problem (MOP) to maximize the total network utility and the localization Cramér ...

Chinese transnational criminal syndicates reportedly exploit this area with support from local armed groups, including Myanmar’s Karen Border Guard Force (BGF), previously known as the ...

BANGKOK/YANGON -- U.S. authorities placed Myanmar mobile carrier Mytel on a sanctions roster due to its financial ties to the country's military. The U.S. Commerce Department added Mytel to its ...