Kolkata: The Asiatic Society, established on Jan 15, 1784, by William Jones in Calcutta and home to over 50,000 ancient ...

The Burmese python is a nonvenomous constrictor snake that relies on its muscular body to overpower and squeeze prey before swallowing it whole. Joe McDonald / Getty Images Non-Floridians may not ...

A large alligator was recently caught on video towing an enormous Burmese python through the water in the Florida Everglades. The video, shot from the observation tower at Shark Valley by ...

Burmese pythons may be the most destructive foreign animal in Florida Everglades history. The invasive snake was first recorded in the Everglades National Park in 1979 and quickly put a stranglehold ...

An opium poppy farm in Pekon Township in Shan State, Myanmar, in November.Credit...Adam Ferguson for The New York Times Supported by By Hannah Beech Reporting from Shan and Karen states in Myanmar ...

In a twist worthy of a script itself a Chinese actor has vanished without a trace on the Thai-Myanmar border amid people ...

There are even reports that the Arakan Army now commands areas inside Bangladesh. In the ferocious civil war between ethnic rebel groups and the junta (military) in Myanmar, the Arakan Army, the ...

A Myanmar ethnic rebel group has captured a military regional command in Rakhine state, it said, in what would be a major blow to the junta. The Arakan Army had "completely captured" the western ...

Thailand yesterday hosted the first of two days of meetings aimed at breaking the political deadlock in war-torn Myanmar. Yesterday’s “informal consultation” was attended by foreign ...