In 2024, across Singapore and South-east Asia, conversations about world affairs seem to surface more frequently in daily life – at dinner tables, with colleagues in the office or over coffee ...

Some have suggested that Myanmar, which has been at war essentially since the junta’s 2021 coup and where the military has steadily lost ground (it controls around twenty percent of the country ...

Months after announcing that the Free Movement Regime (FMR) along the Myanmar border has been entirely suspended, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has brought in fresh protocol to regulate ...

The growing territorial gains of the Arakan Army, and its seemingly undeterred momentum, have raised questions about the rebel group's ultimate goal. Since Myanmar's military staged a coup and ...

Kyaw Swar Lin, who was recently promoted to No. 3 in the Myanmar military, attended the second Russia-Myanmar anti-terrorrism committee meeting in April for talks on security, training and cooperation ...

Myanmar has been in a state of chaos since the military coup in 2021. February 1, 2025, will mark four years since the military takeover of Myanmar led by Senior General Ming Aung Hlaing. Much has ...

I was working as a journalist in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, when the military seized power. That was on 1 February 2021, and everything changed overnight. Only three months before ...

YANGON -- Housing Now, a builder of prefabricated, affordable bamboo houses in Myanmar, has been named winner of the fourth Nikkei Asia Award for its social and economic contributions to the ...

BANGKOK (AP) -- A powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar claimed Friday to have scored a major victory in the war against the ruling military, even as neighboring nations at a meeting in ...

Naypyitaw – A rebel army in Myanmar has captured a major military headquarters in the country’s west, marking the fall of the junta’s second regional command as it faces mounting setbacks ...

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 ...

Indian insurgent groups that took refuge in Myanmar and fought in its civil war have been streaming back across the border to Manipur this year, security officers said, inflaming the 19-month ...