Nearly half of Myanmar’s people now live in poverty, according to the World Bank. This calamity has forced a new cadre of women in Myanmar into sex work: doctors, teachers, nurses and other ...

Women in Myanmar have been tortured, sexually harassed and threatened with rape in custody, according to accounts obtained by the BBC. Five women who were detained for protesting against a ...

The scene may not be uncommon in many parts of Asia, but was until recently rare here in isolated Myanmar, where economic desperation is increasingly pushing young women into a sex trade that ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Women in Myanmar are upending cultural norms by enlisting in the fight against the military junta that took control of the country in 2021. More from News Women in ...

Myanmar's military government will release more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates' sentences as part of a mass amnesty to mark the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain.

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's coast guard escorted away from its waters two boats carrying almost 300 undocumented Myanmar migrants found in a state of exhaustion for lack of food and water, a top agency ...

Malaysian police on Friday detained almost 200 migrants "believed to be Rohingya" from Myanmar after their boat ran aground on the northern resort island of Langkawi.