Until Thursday, Myaing, a small town in central Myanmar, was best known for its production of thanaka, a bark that is ground for use as a cooling cosmetic.. But in the late morning of March 11 ...

BAGAN, Myanmar - The rising sun streaked a light blanket of fog with pink and yellow. Suddenly, pagodas popped out from the mist, some grand and intricate, others squat and modest, some crumbling ...

A conversation with a veteran Myanmar watcher and geopolitical analyst about the deteriorating situation in Myanmar. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Armed groups in Myanmar are striving to work together to repel the junta after rebels took control of a crucial trading-post town last week.

BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's City Mart Holdings has embarked on an ambitious expansion of its convenience store business, taking advantage of the opportunity afforded by the vacuum left after ...

PAUKTAW: Gutted buildings, vacant windows and blocks bombed to rubble show the price paid by the western Myanmar town of Pauktaw for victory against the junta in the country's civil war. Fighters ...

Myanmar's borderlands are home to many armed ethnic groups who have battled the military since independence from Britain in 1948.

Rescuers are racing against time to locate survivors as Myanmar's death toll from Friday's 7.7-magnitude earthquake soared to 1,644, with at least 17 more killed in neighbouring Thailand. The ...

Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, sits on the eastern bank of the Irrawaddy River, around 400 miles north of Yangon. With a population of roughly 1.2 million, it’s a place of deep ...

Thai citizens, officials and visitors were left reeling from a deadly shooting at a popular mall in Bangkok, and asking what a nation with one of Asia’s highest rates of gun ownership can do.

Fried Korean chicken and tacos are coming to the Capital City Mall, just in time for back to school shopping. ... the Philippines, Singapore, Cambodia, Myanmar, Australia, Vietnam and the U.S.

Around 14 per cent of Myanmar’s total trade via land borders between April 2023 and March 2024 – totalling about US$1.15 billion – went through Myawaddy, according to government data.