Bangladesh's post-election hopes for minority rights, a new Catholic church in conflict-torn Myanmar, an indigenous solar project in the Philippines, and the ongoing struggles for religious freedom ...

But the shows, which combine dance, drama and music, are also part of an effort by Myanmar’s military rulers to project a veneer of legitimacy. U Chit Myo Htike, known by his stage name Phoe Chit, ...

Myanmar's junta will form a new entity to oversee both the military and civilian administration, a move experts say will allow paramount ruler Min Aung Hlaing to become president without loosening his ...

China has executed 11 people involved in criminal gangs in Myanmar, including online scam ringleaders. Their crimes included "intentional homicide, intentional injury, unlawful detention, fraud and ...

China has executed 11 members of a notorious mafia family that ran scam centres in Myanmar along its north-eastern border, state media report. The Ming family members were sentenced in September for ...

On January 29, the three-week hearings on the merits of Gambia’s genocide case against Myanmar before the International Court of Justice came to a close. The case, filed in 2019, alleges that ...

Members of Myanmar’s Union Election Commission (UEC) count ballots after the closing of polls at a polling station in the third phase of Myanmar’s general election in Yangon on Jan 25, 2026. (Photo: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Myanmar police hand over five telecom and internet fraud suspects to Chinese ...

YANGON – A hundreds-strong crowd in Myanmar rallied on Jan 27 against the country’s prosecution for genocide, a rare public protest permitted by military authorities accused of the atrocities against ...

The first bomb to strike the remote village of Vanha in western Myanmar came from a junta warplane. It hit the only school in the hamlet, near the frontline of the civil war. The second came from a ...

Myanmar state media on January 30 reported that, as expected, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) ran away with the regime’s carefully choreographed elections. The military proxy party, ...

A polling station in Yangon, Myanmar, on January 25, 2026. SAI AUNG MAIN / AFP Myanmar's dominant pro-military party has won junta-run elections, a party source told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on ...