In a workshop in an infamous refugee camp in Beirut, Palestinian women practice an ancient art form — as a livelihood, and ...

Kyu Kyu Hla’s billion-kyat collection of Hermès, Prada, Louis Vuitton, and Yves Saint Laurent handbags exposes the opulent ...

Myanmar’s military government has released over 6,000 prisoners in a mass amnesty to mark the country’s 77th Independence Day, state media reported on Saturday. The release, which comes amid ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia said Saturday (Jan 4) that it expelled two boats ferrying about 300 undocumented migrants from Myanmar from the country's waters. The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency ...

In 2024, across Singapore and South-east Asia, conversations about world affairs seem to surface more frequently in daily life – at dinner tables, with colleagues in the office or over coffee ...

Some have suggested that Myanmar, which has been at war essentially since the junta’s 2021 coup and where the military has steadily lost ground (it controls around twenty percent of the country ...

As of 2024, Myanmar has diplomatic ties with 126 countries and missions in 37 countries. However, the junta’s top brass, including its boss Min Aung Hlaing, can only travel to a handful of countries.

Myanmar has been in a state of chaos since the military coup in 2021. February 1, 2025, will mark four years since the military takeover of Myanmar led by Senior General Ming Aung Hlaing. Much has ...

YANGON -- Housing Now, a builder of prefabricated, affordable bamboo houses in Myanmar, has been named winner of the fourth Nikkei Asia Award for its social and economic contributions to the ...

Opas said drugstores, community leaders and Myanmar health volunteers would monitor for suspected cholera cases and would report their findings to the forward EOC. The EOC would dispatch officials ...

BANGKOK (AP) -- A powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar claimed Friday to have scored a major victory in the war against the ruling military, even as neighboring nations at a meeting in ...

Naypyitaw – A rebel army in Myanmar has captured a major military headquarters in the country’s west, marking the fall of the junta’s second regional command as it faces mounting setbacks ...