Myanmar is one of the poorest nations in Southeast Asia – a country of more than 50 million people, 45 percent of whom are younger than 25. A former province of British India, Myanmar’s more ...

Among them is a student from Myanmar, who was admitted to a graduate program at an Ivy League school he was set to attend this fall. The student spoke to Morning Edition under the condition of ...

The class-action lawsuit against Meta, Facebook’s parent company, was brought by a Rohingya woman in Illinois on behalf of the 10,000-plus Rohingya refugees who have resettled in the United ...

Nearly $300 million worth of confiscated illegal drugs were destroyed in Myanmar’s major cities on Thursday to mark the ...

YANGON, Myanmar – About 20,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks and nuns on Sunday mounted the largest anti-government protest in Myanmar since a failed 1988 democratic uprising, shouting support for ...

MACOMB, Ill. (AP) - A group of teachers and administrators from Myanmar has wrapped up a month-long visit to Illinois. Twenty-six educators participated in the Educational Leadership Institute, a ...

With all eyes on Ukraine, the sorry anniversary of Myanmar’s coup passed too quietly. The two crises aren’t dissimilar; both involve fragile sovereignty, perpetually threatened. But as Ukraine fears ...

The House on Friday overwhelmingly supported a measure condemning the military coup in Myanmar that ousted the country’s civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. But some conservative Republicans didn ...

North Korea's Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun (4th R) visits the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar July 29, 2010 (Soe Zeya Tun/Courtesy Reuters). Over the past five years, as North Korea’s few ...

ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) -- It's Sunday afternoon at Baker Memorial United Methodist Church, and while most of its halls and rooms have emptied since the morning's services, the building ...