With the military mostly absent from post-earthquake rescue and recovery, ordinary people have taken it upon themselves to spearhead reconstruction efforts. People sit outside in the open air after ...

The scam industry in Myanmar is morphing and heading into the jungle rather than disappearing since a crackdown began.

FILE PHOTO: Resistance fighters rescue civilians trapped amid airstrikes in Myanmar (This Dec. 17 story has been corrected to change the consultant's employer in paragraph 30) (Reuters) - Generals ...

A United Nations-backed investigator has revealed disturbing evidence of “systemic torture” inside Myanmar’s detention centres, describing electric shocks, strangulations, gang rape and the burning of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amnesty International researcher, Joe Freeman, explains what life is like inside Myanmar today as the military junta cling to ...

One works as a teacher. Others pretend to be students and shopkeepers. In Myanmar, their day jobs help mask their real profession as journalists. With the space for independent journalism all but ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s army chief blamed ethnic Kokang rebels for shelling attacks in southwestern China that he said aimed to damage relations between China and Myanmar, state media ...

BANGKOK — It was the noise that first alerted Chit Thae Thae Zaw that something might be wrong. On the 5th floor of her university dormitory building, she wasn't used to the rumbling sound coming from ...

In thick jungle, in southern Myanmar, two soldiers cover a freshly dug pit with tree trunks. The floor of the emerging air-raid shelter, which will fit a dozen people, is already covered with rattan ...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Generals from Myanmar's junta held peace talks in June near the border with China with representatives of three powerful ethnic armies. They sat across a wide table covered with ...