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Union Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday said the ambitious Kaladan project between India and Myanmar, aimed at reducing the Northeast's distance from the rest of the country, will be oper ...
Elephants are playing important roles in the country’s civil war, but the conflict casts a dark shadow over their future.
Myanmar’s civil war is unwinnable under the circumstances. Supporting Kachin independence could secure rare earth supplies, ...
Myanmar’s military junta has further extended a temporary ceasefire in order to facilitate earthquake relief and reconstruction efforts, following a call from the Association of Southeast Asian ...
Well, since China and Russia actively back the puppet war criminals, it is in fact remarkable that the Myanmar opposition and ethnic forces have done as well as they have. Don’t be delusional. A ...
A year into Myanmar military’s conscription drive, thousands of young men and women have done much the same, either heading for rebel-held borderlands out of the military regime’s reach or ...
The team was sent to Myanmar a day after a deadly 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit the country’s central region, killing more than 3,500 people and leaving thousands injured or missing.
Notably absent from the aftermath of the earthquake in Myanmar: the uniquely skilled, well-equipped and swift search-and-rescue teams and disaster-response crews from the United States.
Myanmar Now spoke with resistance figures in Sagaing and Mandalay, as well as in surrounding Karenni, Shan, and Chin states, to understand the mindset of the resistance after the catastrophe. As the ...
The Friday earthquake originated near Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city of about 1.5 million, from rubbing tectonic plates along the Sagaing fault, which runs through the center of the ...
Before her trip, Thailand announced that it had shut off electricity to the other side of the border, something it had done briefly in 2023 as well. China’s vice minister of public security came ...
The remittances these migrants send home provide the main source of income for 7.5 percent of Myanmar households. “Recent migration flows highlight the precarious state of Myanmar’s economy, as well ...