More than a million people have fled Myanmar’s brutal civil war to seek shelter and work in neighbouring Thailand, where ...

In February 2024, Myanmar’s junta declared mandatory military service for men aged 18 to 35 and women aged 18 to 27. Those ...

Despite formulating a Five-Point Consensus in 2021, divisions within ASEAN continue to undermine its capacity to mount a ...

UN food agency to cut aid for 1 million people in Myanmar - World Food Programme has said funding shortfall would mean cuts ...

Sandar Khin, chairperson of the Myanmar Cultural Heritage Trust, which organized the competition, said it was being held to highlight the culture of thanakha and help bring it to world attention.

Despite an ongoing civil war and political instability, young Japanophiles of Myanmar sang their hearts out at Utacon 2025, a ...

The implementation of the People’s Military Service Law will allow the military to increase its control over women’s lives and bodies.

The recent ‘A Sound for Myanmar’ event in Brussels organized by the EU’s Myanmar office was tone deaf and squandered funds that would have been better spent elsewhere.

If Myanmar's people drive Gen. Min Aung Hlaing and his brutal military regime from power, as they seem about to do, the first thing they should do afterward is take a page from Costa Rica’s book and ...

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