"Myanmar’s military regime struggled harder to maintain a charade of normalcy this year as its territorial control shrank in the face of relentless resistance advances." ...

Weightlifting, karate drills and tug-of-war contests are all activities at the facility in a country that produces huge ...

A Vietnamese monk who became an internet hit last year is going international.Thich Minh Tue, 44, is on a 1,650-mile barefoot ...

While the amnesty included around 600 political prisoners, it should not be taken as a sign of conciliation on the part of ...

Beaten and arrested during a 1968 student protest, he was later instrumental in efforts to define Buddhist social engagement.

The first foreign country I ever heard about as a child was Burma, which was renamed Myanmar in 1989. This was because my dad ...

More than a hundred shaven-headed men pour out of their Yangon hostel around 6 am for a day of weightlifting, karate drills, ...

A Vietnamese monk who became an internet hit last year is going international. Thich Minh Tue, 44, is on a 2,700-kilometer (1,650-mile) barefoot pilgrimage across Thailand and Myanmar to Buddhist ...

Malaysia's coast guard escorted away from its waters two boats carrying almost 300 undocumented Myanmar migrants found in a state of exhaustion for lack of food and water, a top agency official said.

Malaysia said Saturday it expelled two boats ferrying about 300 undocumented migrants from Myanmar from the country's waters.

Myanmar's embattled junta government on Saturday said it would release almost 6,000 prisoners as part of an annual amnesty to ...

Malaysian police on Friday detained almost 200 migrants "believed to be Rohingya" from Myanmar after their boat ran aground on the northern resort island of Langkawi.