The number of people employed in alluvial gold mining has increased drastically in Myanmar due to soaring gold prices, ...

A steep decline in the number of students taking the annual matriculation exam points to an education system in collapse ...

Yet another trusted general assumes a top position in parliament, tightening the junta’s grip ahead of a planned “civilian” transition ...

Tensions between the two groups came to head over the weekend, with the Kokang MNDAA taking full control of Kutkai ...

Troops under the command of Bo Letyar, the new defence minister, have been accused of torturing and killing a local ...

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) captured the town of Kutkai from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army ...

Army troops had lost control of a village police station to Karen anti-junta fighters and their allies in Myanmar’s south and ...

Forces led by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) overran two security outposts near Indawgyi Lake manned by junta soldiers and members of the Shanni Nationalities Army (SNA) ...

The legislature convenes for the first time in five years, with junta allies filling key posts in the wake of military-orchestrated elections ...

The base in Thayetchaung Township fell after an intensive, month-long offensive that resulted in heavy casualties, sources ...

The attack is just the latest by the regime targeting detention centres holding captured members of its own armed forces ...

Junta troops had detained the civilians during a series of raids on villages in Bago Region’s Nyaunglebin Township late last ...