In Myanmar’s eastern Karenni State, the sleepy jungle town of Demoso has come alive with revolutionary fervour. In the burnt-red soil along the sides of the town’s main road, a transformation ...
A typical local house inside the KNU-controlled jungle. Credit: Helen Li Since gaining independence in 1948, Myanmar has faced persistent political crises and ethnic tensions. The most recent ...
Some 200 troops from Northwestern Command and Pyu Saw Htee have been raiding villages along the Monywa-Budalin road since Oct ...
At a volunteer care center on the Thailand-Myanmar border, wounded anti-junta fighters repair both body and spirit. A view of ...
Myanmar, in southeast Asia ... said he was grateful to management for being allowed to spend a month in the jungle "where there's no way you can speak to us". But he saved his biggest thanks ...
Myanmar’s military has been ramping up its use of drones, deploying a combination of retrofitted commercial drones and customized military munitions to carry out a torrent of deadly strikes ...
which was shared with Senior Superintendents of Police along the Myanmar border. The militants are said to be trained in drone bombs, missiles, and jungle warfare. Organized into 30-member units ...
BANGKOK -- The main group coordinating opposition to military rule in Myanmar rejected on Friday a surprise offer from the ruling generals to hold talks on a political solution to the country’s ...
Trained and guided by ethnic armed groups, Myanmar’s volunteer fighting forces are challenging the generals’ grip. The People's Defence Forces (PDF) have joined forces with ethnic armed groups ...
In early 2013, Karenni priest Father Saw Joseph Kureh was 46 and running a parish in the Loikaw diocese in the in Myanmar ...
A United Nations team of investigators on Myanmar is closely monitoring reports that executions in the country could be imminent, its chief said on Monday, warning such a step could constitute a ...
Sui-Lee Wee, the Southeast Asia bureau chief, reported on women who had fled Myanmar and found refuge — and the delight of ...