Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of chocolate-coloured raw opium in each ...

Nawnghkio is strategically located on the main Mandalay-Lashio-Muse trade route linking Myanmar and China and is a gateway to ...

Resistance fighters say the regime and its allies are bolstered by improved technology, including drones, and have received ...

All those abducted were of Ta’ang ethnicity and came from Man Khite village ... in northern Shan State along the China-Myanmar border. It was founded as the Communist Party of Burma collapsed ...

Since gaining independence from British rule in 1948, Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) has struggled to ... pushing military forces back from local villages. Several of the twenty-five active ...

On a typical day, Mai Rupa travels through his native Shan ... of Burma News International, a network of 16 local, independent media organisations based inside and outside Myanmar, said the ...

The death toll from disastrous flooding in Myanmar ... and southern Shan state, Mon, Kayah and Kayin states. Local media reports suggest many of the most badly affected villages have been forced ...

It could not come at a worse time for Myanmar ... campaigns on villages, schools and hospitals, executed prisoners, and carried out massacres. Mark Farmaner, the director of Burma Campaign UK ...

This photo provided by the Kyunhla Activists Group shows aftermath of an airstrike in Pazigyi village in Sagaing Region's Kanbalu Township, Myanmar ... crisis in Burma following the February ...