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 ...

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

The death of Kim Jong Il is causing some unease in Southeast Asia about how the transition now under way in North Korea might affect its military ties to Myanmar.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The team is still on the ground in Myanmar.It was first reported by PBS.. The source explained that these people work when needed but if the contracts are ended, as is now taking place, quickly ...

Myanmar’s military chief, Min Aung Hlaing, called for elections on March 27, 2025 – a day before an earthquake devastated the country. ... Northern Illinois University ...