Kayin farmer Khaw Mying looks up to the dark, cloudy sky as she attaches a bamboo panel onto the side of her makeshift hut in the temporary camp for displaced people at the edge of a rubber tree ...

BANGKOK--Myanmar’s military regime appealed to the international community on Sunday to take back hundreds of foreigners who have been detained in a crackdown on scam centers in the country’s eastern ...

YANGON: Landslides in Thandaunggyi Township, Kayin State, have claimed the lives of 11 persons and damaged about 30 houses, as several persons remain missing, according to local residents. A local ...

Displaced families face the devastating consequences of armed conflict every day, including the loss of their homes and livelihoods, along with limited access to essentials like food, water, education ...

Coming down the steps of the Ya The Byan cave, I see a tuk-tuk full of backpackers roll up to the entrance. They get down, their white skin lashed red from the strong sun, blond hair matted with a ...

Floods after heavy monsoon rains displaced more than 16,000 people in Myanmar, local media reported on Thursday. A total of 16,792 people were displaced by floods -- which began over the weekend in ...

YANGON: Six people, including two children, lost their lives in an artillery shell explosion in Kawtbaw village, Kyongdoe Township, Kayin State, according to the Information Team of the State ...

Hundreds of ethnic Kayin have sought refuge in camps to avoid renewed fighting between Myanmar's military and the Kayin National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the country's south-east. Some 300 Kayin ...

Today's headlines: Blaze destroys textile market in Dhaka; China and the United Arab Emirates conclude the first yuan transaction; Rahul Gandhi's two-year prison sentence suspended until at least 13 ...

Swe Zin Htet (Front) waves after winning the crown of Miss Universe Myanmar 2019 in Yangon, Myanmar, May 31, 2019. Swe Zin Htet, from Myanmar's Kayin state, was crowned the title of "Miss Universe ...