Sunseeker has issued a statement to clarify its position on its 'temporary' layoff of workers prior to Christmas 2024. The ...

By Carolyn CowanGerald Flynn 2024 was a year marked by a COP climate summit so dismal that many governments and analysts ...

In Bagan, the ancient art of lacquerware is alive and well. Skilled artisans paint layer upon layer of lacquer (tree sap) ...

Despite China’s calls for it to stop fighting against the Myanmar junta, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has reopened an offensive front in the country’s northernmost Putao District, Kachin State, ...

BANGKOK - A Myanmar ethnic rebel group said on Dec 17 it had recaptured its headquarters from the Myanmar military, almost 30 years after it was forced out. Karen National Union (KNU) fighters had ...

The tree in question is teak. Teak trees (Tectona grandis) are deciduous hardwood trees native to tropical South and Southeast Asia, with the largest forest concentrations in Myanmar. In the past ...

Myanmar's junta has lost control of its border with Bangladesh to the Arakan Army (AA), impacting India's strategic interests. The AA's control extends to areas near the India-funded Sittwe Port and a ...

BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar people displaced within their own country are expected to increase by about 30% to 4.5 million next year, according to a United Nations projection, as the conflict there ...

Bangkok will this week host two separate consultations that will attempt to break the deadlock on Myanmar. Don’t expect any dramatic progress. The Thai government has confirmed more details ...

Myanmar’s ruling junta has suppressed information about a severe food crisis gripping the country by pressuring researchers not to collect data about hunger and aid workers not to publish it, a ...

By Sui-Lee Wee After seven years of medical school in Myanmar, May finally achieved her goal of becoming a doctor. But a month after she graduated and found a job, her dreams started unraveling.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service sent fewer criminal cases to federal prosecutors in the 2024 fiscal year than at any point in more than 40 years, according to a review of federal data by the ...