The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

A shrine perched on an extinct volcano in Myanmar once thronged with the bustle of pilgrims praying to flower-eating spirit Popa Maedaw, but civil war has cut the complex off from the faithful.

Learn about Myanmar's military junta leader taking over as interim president amid civil war and humanitarian crisis, with 18.6 million people in urgent nee...

Myanmar’s military government has held a wreath-laying ceremony in the country’s largest city to mark the 77th anniversary of the assassination of the country’s fallen independence heroes, including Gen. Aung San, the father of the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi

Urban areas in Venezuela, Pakistan and Myanmar come with a safety warning

An Iranian man and his Thai wife were found murdered at their Iranian restaurant in Pattaya on Tuesday, and the prime suspect is a missing Myanmar employee.

Crimes against humanity are occurring with impunity around the globe; from Myanmar to Sudan, Ukraine and elsewhere. And yet, unlike international treaties for the crimes of genocide, torture, apartheid and forced disappearances, there isn’t a treaty specific to crimes against humanity.

Recently renewed combat in northeastern Myanmar between troops of the military government and ethnic minority militias has in the past few days become more complicated, as two minority groups not previously involved in the fighting stepped into the fray

Myanmar's military government has arrested Hiroshi Kasamatsu, an executive with a Japanese supermarket chain with several stores in the country, for selling rice above the maximum price set by the government. In total, the government arrested 62 people for selling rice above the official price. Kasamatsu and 10 others face…

Residents of Kyaukme in northern Myanmar are counting their dead and picking through rubble following fresh fighting that shredded a Beijing-brokered ceasefire between the junta and an alliance of armed ethnic groups.