No one remains in the villages on the east bank of the Sittaung River in Myanmar’s Shwegyin township.Over the past two weeks, junta troops have fired heavy artillery and shells at the 10 tracts in Bago region and threatened their residents, following c…

Ohnmar Myint is in her 20s and doesn’t think she can pursue her dreams – or make much of a living – in Myanmar anymore.So she’s applying for a passport in hopes of moving to Japan, where she hears there are many jobs – away from the political and econo…

Authorities in northeast India’s state of Manipur have detained at least 170 refugees from villages along the border with Myanmar since the start of the year, according to the refugees and an aid group, causing others to shelter in the jungle or return…

Military junta officials were transported from Myanmar into Bangladesh aboard United Nations boats on which UN markings had been removed, according to an email from the UN’s resident coordinator in Myanmar, a move that could put humanitarian workers at…

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen accused unnamed foreigners of “a campaign to slander” his country amid claims a Chinese-funded expansion of a prominent southern naval base is in fact establishing a foreign base for Chinese forces.A report by The Wall …

It was a “lucky” lottery, the men assembled were told.Flanked by recent soldier recruits, the local administrator told them that eight “lucky” men from each of the town’s wards would be chosen to join a pro-junta militia group that had terrorized villa…

None of the five political parties that meet the criteria to take part in a general election in Myanmar can mount a challenge to the military’s grip on power, an opposition official said Tuesday, urging the groups to boycott any junta-led ballot.So far…

Three people have been seriously injured by a land mine blast as they rode their motorcycles near the Indian border in Myanmar’s northwestern Chin state.The three locals were traveling to a Seventh Day Adventist church meeting at a village in Tedim tow…

Myanmar’s junta has expanded its ability to target those who seek its removal from power by sharpening the teeth of law that it’s already used to jail hundreds of people since seizing power in a coup d’etat two years ago.The addendum to the Anti-Terror…

Nearly 10,000 residents of Myanmar’s central Bago region have fled their villages as junta troops continue their scorched-earth operations in an attempt to flush out local People’s Defense Forces and ethnic Karen fighters.Residents said 12 villages in …