BANGKOK--Recently renewed combat in northeastern Myanmar between troops of the military government and ethnic minority militias has in the past few days become more complicated, as two minority ...

In 1784, the Konbaung dynasty of the kingdom of Burma—a Buddhist realm dominated by the Bamar ethnic group, which today makes up 68 percent of Myanmar’s population—conquered Arakan.

Palestinians have strongly rejected the idea, calling it forced displacement. Human Rights Watch and other organisations have labelled the plan as ethnic cleansing.

Four years ago, the Mizos, the dominant ethnic tribe of the northeastern state of Mizoram, were liberal in allowing the Chin refugees of Myanmar to cross the border and settle in the state. The Chin ...

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she ...

A construction company owned by Myanmar junta boss Min Aung Hlaing’s son is among those that will rebuild Naypyitaw after Min Aung Hlaing ordered the reconstruction of the country’s quake-devastated ...