In February 2024, Myanmar’s junta declared mandatory military service for men aged 18 to 35 and women aged 18 to 27. Those who do not comply face up to five years in prison.

Avenging junta troops have torched and looted dozens of villages at the confluence of the Chindwin and Irrawaddy rivers as they try to advance on the resistance stronghold of Myaung.

A local resistance group fighting against the military government in Myanmar has acknowledged responsibility for the killing last week of a Buddhist monk and his disciple in the country’s eastern regi ...

Caught between ethnic offensives in the east and west, the regime now faces a growing threat at its industrial-military core.

Though not formally demarcated so far, the traditional boundary is recognised by both sides to be the watershed between the ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

In an exclusive interview with VOA, lawmaker Rangsiman Rome, who chairs the Thai House Committee on National Security and is ...

Persistence paid off. Van isn’t totally sure why the flag was not allowed to begin with, but he’d steadily stayed on the ...

The United States upholds its status as the major global economy and richest country, with a GDP of over $30.34 trillion as of 2025, steadfastly preserving its pinnacle position from 1960 to 2025.

The new maps include Oakland and Santa Rosa, scenes of deadly fires, along with Northern California’s wine country. New fire hazard maps for the entire state will be released by March 24 ...

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