Myanmar says it has commissioned Russian helicopters and Chinese airplanes into its air force as the two nations continue to ...

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A boat carrying Rohingya refugees has sunk near the Thailand-Malaysia border. At least seven people have died and 13 have ...

In Myanmar, the deported refugees live in hiding. In India, their families wait from day to day for their loved ones or to be ...

Junta chief orders ‘smooth transition’ from poverty, eyes nuclear rule – plus a PR scam blitz, arresting election dissenters, ...

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

As the junta prepares for heavily rigged polls to be held in parts of the country, Bertil Lintner looks back at Myanmar’s troubled record of elections—which have rarely been free or fair.

Sri Lanka has invited a representative of Myanmar's junta to a meeting of Asian foreign ministers but denied on Wednesday that its gesture endorsed the country's military coup, condemned globally over ...

As we collectively reflect on the complex challenges in Tanzania, I would like to engage Nigerian women by posing a few critical questions: How ...

Aung San Suu Kyi has been a prisoner in her own home for years. Now she may lose it after a legal suit brought by her U.S.-based brother ...