I n four years of civil war, Myanmar’s ruling junta has suffered a slew of humiliating military reversals. But this year it ...

Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing has promised to transfer power to whoever wins the election, but there are many reasons to be ...

BANGKOK--The head of Myanmar’s military government has charged that a major offensive in the country’s northeast by an alliance of armed ethnic minority organizations was funded in part by ...

Since October, a blend of ethnic armies have joined ... said The Economist. "Myanmar is hugely diverse": it’s home to some 135 ethnicities, whose rivalries were accentuated by the British ...

BANGKOK--A powerful ethnic minority armed group battling Myanmar’s army in the country’s west claimed Monday to have taken hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major ...

Myanmar's junta chief will attend a regional summit in Bangkok next week, a spokesman said Thursday, a rare foreign trip ...

Zaw Wai Soe also says it's important that Myanmar preserve its ethnic cultures. "Since ours is a diverse nation made up of 135 ethnic groups, we must allow students to receive education in their ...

They are a stateless, Muslim ethnic group with a population of about 1 million in Myanmar, who are based mostly in Rakhine state (on the border with Bangladesh). The Rohingya are not among the 135 ...

Myanmar's government refuses to recognize the Rohingya as one of the country’s 135 lawful ethnic minorities, instead calling them Bengalis, with the implication that their native land is in ...

They fought one another and waged incessant military campaigns against the big minority groups. (Only two-thirds of the Myanmar population are ethnic Myanmar, and the soldiers see their job as keeping ...

(Only two-thirds of Myanmar’s population are of ethnic Myanmar descent, and the soldiers see their job as keeping the other ethnicities down). If students and other civilians dared to protest ...

Bangladesh has extended the power of commissioned army officials to enforce law and order amid the absence of police forces after the fall of Sheikh Hasina's autocratic government on August 5, 2024.