Feb 25 (Reuters) - A retired general from an army-backed party that swept Myanmar's election is set to take the powerful role ...

The executions are part of broader crackdown by Beijing on centres across Southeast Asia, which are built on an industrial scale and hunt scam victims across the globe, as well as running kidnapping, ...

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said the people of Myanmar "face a deepening crisis", five years after the country's democratically-elected government was overthrown by the military. The coup, ...

Hundreds of Myanmar residents of Japan held a rally in Tokyo on Sunday, exactly five years after Myanmar's military seized power in a coup. On February 1, 2021, Myanmar's military detained ...

The Myanmar military’s proxy party has been declared the overwhelming winner of the country’s recent election, ensuring that it will form the country’s next government and tighten the army’s hold on ...

Beijing has continued to clamp down on Myanmar-based telecom scams with another set of executions. The fraud operations reportedly involve cryptocurrency investments and also have links to drug ...

Associate Professor Emma Palmer is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Australian Discovery Early Career Award (project number DE250100597) funded by the Australian Government. The views ...

Burma, or Myanmar as the dictatorship prefers to call it, has passed a grim milestone: the fifth anniversary of the coup in which Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing seized power, triggering the most ...

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Remember the Church in Myanmar. This Southeast Asian country has been mired in civil war since 2021. Believers don’t escape these realities.