Four years ago today, a military junta in Myanmar seized power from the country's democratically elected government. They sent tanks into the streets and detained the country's president, as well as ...

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Myanmar's military has conducted air raids and used heavy artillery on a rebel-held area near the border with Thailand, and compelled hundreds of people to flee across a river into the neighbouring ...

We have managed to evacuate at least 54,000 people so far, our aim is to relocate the victims from the active volcanic sites, and we are succeeding,' Moussa told VOA. Residents are now getting into ...

The landscape of Myanmar’s conflict has dramatically changed since then. The coup makers’ State Administration Council (SAC) has been losing territory to various ethnic groups and resistance forces.

The armed wing of the long-established, powerful ethnic national organisation Karen National Union (KNU) has been battling a breakaway group near the city of Dawei in Myanmar’s southernmost region ...

However, some destinations still require UK passport holders to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) or obtain a Visa on Arrival (VOA).

The means of trafficking people into these compounds is increasingly changing,” Jason Tower, the Myanmar country director at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), told VOA. “This shows ...

Landslides in the jade mining area of Hpakant in Myanmar have been a regular theme of this blog over the years. This is a mining area on an epic scale, but it is also a true wild west, with poor ...

Scam factories threaded along the Myanmar border with Thailand have been thrust back under the spotlight after the rescue of a Chinese actor who says he was duped by a fake casting call into ...

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These include abduction and forced recruitment of children and members of ethnic and religious minorities and the Burmese military’s indiscriminate aerial bombardments that kill and injure civilians ...