With hundreds of thousands dead, a shortage of body bags and 1.7 million people displaced, the overwhelming devastation caused by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami remains forever imprinted on the minds of ...

The three non-state ethnic armed groups that have expanded their control in Shan state—the Brotherhood Alliance comprising the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, or TNLA; the Myanmar National ...

“All parties should respect Myanmar’s national conditions and ... prioritize people’s livelihoods,” Sun said. At the Dec. 19 meeting, Than Swe, Myanmar’s deputy prime minister and ...

Elsewhere, hundreds of local-level People’s Defense Forces, or PDFs, affiliated with the exiled National Unity Government formed by lawmakers deposed in the coup have escalated their armed resistance.

Last month, two key members of the anti-junta Brotherhood Alliance – Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) – said they were willing to ...

Some, including the KIA, Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and Ta'ang National Liberation Army, have given shelter and training to newer "People's Defence Forces" that sprang up to battle ...

Based on the statements of the crew, the vessel’s owner, a Myanmar national residing in Ranong province in Thailand, hired them to get the vessel from Surat Thani province in Thailand to bring ...

In August this year, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, another force in the rebel alliance, was the first group to seize a regional command headquarters, in the city of Lashio in the ...

The Arakan Army is part of the anti-junta group called Three Brotherhood Alliance (the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and the Ta'ang National Liberation Army are the other two).

Myanmar's junta-appointed foreign minister briefed officials from five neighbouring countries on the military's repeatedly delayed plans to hold elections, Thailand's foreign minister said on ...

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