Tachileik, Myanmar, the border town opposite Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai, flooded roads and walkways with ankle-deep water ...

Myanmar's largest river. Also hit were Shan State in the north-east and Mon, Karenni and Kayin states, which lie to its south. A civil war has engulfed the country since early 2021, when the army ...

This story appears in the May 2006 issue of National Geographic magazine. I've always believed the best way to know a river is to paddle it, to feel its undercurrents and speed, to take in the ...

Many analysts had speculated the Chin and Shan states would break free at the outset of the Myanmar conflict, but with the ...

The Ta'ang National Liberation Army and Danu People’s Liberation Army say large numbers of regime troops are being killed ...

A pair of Irrawaddy dolphins — an extremely rare river species — were recently rescued along the coast of Myanmar. The two animals — a mother and her offspring — were discovered on Oct. 5 ...

as appears to be the case in the opium-producing regions of Shan and Kachin in eastern and northern Myanmar. That does not necessarily mean production has plateaued, said the U.N. experts.

A farmer tills the soil by the Moei River that divides Thailand and Myanmar. (Photo: Luke Hunt) That, according to a farmer from Inle Lake in the northern Shan Hills — who declined to be identified ...

VIENTIANE -Myanmar’s ongoing crisis was raised as a possible hindrance to regional cooperation to save the Mekong River, as other countries along the important waterway pledged on Wednesday to ...

In Kayah State, south of Shan State along the border with ... important town of Tigyaing on the Irrawaddy River. PDFs are very active around Myanmar's second-largest city of Mandalay.