After Ajib Bahar's six-month-old son fell sick last year in Myanmar's war-torn Rakhine state, the 38-year-old Rohingya mother said she had no medicine or food to give him. The boy died in her arms.

Hunger is rising in Myanmar, the impoverished Southeast Asian country that has been ravaged by conflict since a 2021 military coup ousted an elected civilian government.

Some 3.6 million people are displaced across the war-torn nation, according to the United Nations, and a lack of funding has left millions of vulnerable people without life-saving humanitarian support ...

The Right Livelihood Award was awarded Wednesday to activists from Sudan and Myanmar, where military and political violence devastates communities, to the Pacific Islands, where climate disaster ...

Around 1,450 Myanmar migrant workers were abruptly fired by an electronics firm in Thailand’s Phetchaburi Province this week after being pressured to sign away their jobs, labor rights activists say.

Laos has joined Cambodia and Myanmar in the bottom-tier three category on the 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report released in Washington overnight, which blamed corruption, complicity, and even ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The Ming family ran “scam parks” from a Myanmar town near the Chinese border that fueled billion-dollar fraud and other crimes, where those who tried to escape were beaten or killed.

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres on Tuesday warned that the crisis in Myanmar threatens the stability of the region and the rights of millions, Anadolu Ajansi reported.

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.