Myanmar’s jade mines may yield great wealth—but they leave a long trail of death. An exclusive report By Hannah Beech/Hpakant | Photographs by adam dean When the earth collapsed, as it does ...

The Rohingya were once counted as a part of the Mrauk-U (Mrohaung) kingdom in Arakan which stood independent of both the Burman kingdoms in the Irrawaddy delta and central Burma as well as Bengal ...

Nawadegyi and Natshinnaung were our great poets of the Toungoo dynasties, and the pandit Binnyadala has left us an exciting prose chronicle of the long struggle between the Burmese King of Ava and ...

The Rohingya people in Myanmar are trapped in a dehumanising system of state-sponsored discrimination and racial segregation. This is apartheid – a crime against humanity as defined by international ...

Myanmar’s farms are well diversified, with most farms producing rice paddy during the monsoon season and other crops such as beans, pulses, oilseeds and maize, during the cool and dry seasons. The ...

Women in Myanmar have been tortured, sexually harassed and threatened with rape in custody, according to accounts obtained by the BBC. Five women who were detained for protesting against a ...

A paradigm shift is needed to understand Myanmar’s politics and why the people’s revolution continues to make progress on the ground without any significant support from the international ...

Myanmar’s worsening violence took center stage at this week’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Vientiane, Laos, as regional leaders grappled with the inability to implement ...

Myanmar – Scattered across the lush, rolling hills of southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region, rebel fighters stationed at checkpoints inspect cars and trucks traveling towards a nearby town ...

But a new report out Wednesday shows that internet freedoms in China’s neighbor Myanmar are now just as lacking. The report from Freedom House, a US government-funded NGO, found that global ...

Jade Thirlwall is ready for her solo time in the spotlight. The former Little Mix star has spent this year preparing for the release of her debut solo album with lead single “Angel of My Dreams ...