A 1,400-kilometre transform fault runs through Myanmar and connects the Andaman spreading centre to a collision zone in the ...

In the aftermath of the magnitude 7.7 and 6.4 earthquakes that struck central Myanmar on March 28, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned of a series of rapidly rising health threats for tens of ...

The junta that ousted Myanmar’s last freely elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is now seeking to hold sham polls to entrench ...

However, there are many parts of Myanmar where the junta has been less successful. Armed resistance groups control most of ...

"Published to accompany the exhibition 'Burma to Myanmar' at the British Museum from 2 November 2023 to 11 February 2024"-- From colophon. "From influential superpower to repressive regime, ...

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Thailand’s foreign minister on Friday said he urged Myanmar’s military authorities not to violently respond to its army’s loss of an important border trading town to its ...

After retaking a strategic junction linking Mandalay Region to northern Shan State, Myanmar junta troops are now pressing ...

How the explorer and historian Alex Bescoby raced to recognise veterans from a largely forgotten chapter of WW2 ...

In 1945, after three long years of war, the fight between the Allied forces and Japan over Burma finally ended. Japan was pushed out of Burma and ultimately lost World War II. Yet the end of the war ...

Following Myanmar's military raids on scam centres in October 2025 that prompted over 1,000 people to flee to Thailand, ...

As the U.S general election approaches, the one certainty is that a new president will occupy the Oval Office in January 2025, regardless of which party’s candidate wins. Over the past three and a ...

[NOTE: The junta that runs the country imposed a systematic name change several years ago, decreeing that Burma was to be called Myanmar and the capital Rangoon was to be Yangon. The opposition has ...