NEW YORK (NEWS10) — Nearly two years have passed since the military coup in Myanmar. Burmese civilian forces continue to fight against the rule of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and his junta. While ...

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s parliament on Tuesday elected Htin Kyaw, a 70-year-old confidant of Aung San Suu Kyi, as the country’s first civilian leader in more than half a century. The key ...

August 8 is a date etched in blood. On this day in 1988, Myanmar’s military turned its guns on thousands of peaceful protesters in what is now remembered as the 8888 uprising. Although it was by no ...

Heckler & Koch firearms have played an unheralded and destructive role in the civil wars that have consumed the country since its independence. History suggests that resistance will not end when the ...

Myanmar’s civil war has been one of the most complex and enduring conflicts in the history of modern warfare. It is a tragic saga defined by ethnic strife, authoritarian rule, civil dissent, and ...

(The Conversation) — This pattern of persecution goes back to 1948 – the year when the country achieved independence from their British colonizers. (The Conversation) — Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, ...

Sunset gathering at the ancient Shwedagon Pagoda, which have been a key meeting place in Yangon (and Burma!) for thousands of year. Cartdrivers close to the red pagoda of Mingun, upstream along the ...

Myanmar's jade industry is worth far more than previously thought and could be "the biggest natural resource heist in modern history," according to a new report published Friday. The report, the ...

With international relief efforts barely touching down in cyclone-devastated Myanmar, campus experts say the disaster in that Southeast Asian country is both a natural and man-made one. Kyaw Tha Paw U ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover international security, conflict, history and aviation. On Monday morning, soldiers from Myanmar’s armed forces, the ...

This article was originally published in The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar, and is edited and republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Poet Khet Thi was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (NEWS10) — Nearly two years have ...