Over one million Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Myanmar, have fled military persecution fin multiple waves of displacement.
Frontier areas in Myanmar have historically been major areas for drug production, especially the region where its borders meet with those of Laos and Thailand, known as the Golden Triangle.
The confluence of the Ruak and Mekong rivers sits in a sleepy, broad plain that runs through a historically lawless section of highland Southeast Asia. It marks the three-way border between ...
Myanmar, a resource-rich multi-ethnic state of 55 million people and eight major ethnic groups, has been beset by violence and military rule. Between 1962 and 2011, the Beijing-backed military ...
A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was detained by the authorities just hours after he was released from prison under an amnesty ...
Christians make up about 6% of Myanmar’s overwhelmingly Buddhist population, but about 34% of Kachin's estimated 1.7 million population. Human rights groups said minority religions including ...