The rarest gemstone in the world is considered to be a transparent mineral of reddish-orange color, of which only one ...

The world's rarest gemstone is made of kyawthuite, a transparent reddish-orange mineral that’s known from just one sample ...

Myanmar was once an insider tip for travelers and a symbol of the global triumph of democracy. Now it is engulfed in yet another civil war. The story of the rise and fall of a nation. A decade ago ...

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 ...

The scale at which the Burmese python is able to decimate the native wildlife population in South Florida continues to astonish biologists studying to eradicate the invasive species. Researchers ...

On the agenda: How to break the impasse in Myanmar, where fighting between the military and pro-democracy forces is intensifying. Myanmar sent a representative to the summit for the first time in ...

SYDNEY – Global efforts to stop Myanmar’s civil war are “clearly not working”, a UN expert warned on Oct 10 as he urged leaders to starve the ruling junta of “money, weapons and ...

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 ...

The failure of Myanmar’s junta to end the country’s violence, allow humanitarian assistance and implement other elements of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ “Five-Point ...

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 ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Three well-armed militias launched a surprise joint offensive in northeastern Myanmar a year ago, breaking a strategic stalemate with the regime's military with rapid gains of ...