Last week, after frustrated activists from Myanmar sent an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, they got something unexpected: a reply. The activists, representing six ...

A Chinese song competition recently held in Yangon offered Myanmar students an opportunity to enhance their language skills while celebrating cultural exchange. The event was organized under the ...

“We want democracy” is spelled out in huge white letters on a street in Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon. “Justice for Myanmar” is carved on a row of watermelons by chefs protesting against the Feb. 1 ...

A man in Myanmar faces up to two years in jail after he was arrested for allegedly defaming the military in an interview he gave detailing his harrowing life as a child soldier. Aung Ko Htwe, 26, was ...

BEIJING — Myanmar’s military has reached a cease-fire agreement with an alliance of ethnic minority guerrilla groups it has been battling in the country’s northeast, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said ...

Myanmar’s ambassador to the U.K., who has spoken out again the military coup in his country, said he was barred from the embassy in London Wednesday by officials loyal to the military junta. “They are ...

A young woman who was shot in the head by police during a protest last week against the military’s takeover of power in Myanmar died Friday morning, her brother said.Hers is the first confirmed death ...

AN 11-YEAR-OLD GIRL CLINGS TO THE ONLY CONNECTION TO HER FAMILY. IN A PHONE CALL SHE LETS THEM KNOW SHE’S OK. SOUNDBITE (Bengali) Senwara Begum, Rohingya girl who fled Myanmar (speaking on phone to ...

On January 16th, Facebook users received an error message when posting in Jinghpaw, a language spoken by Myanmar’s ethnic Kachin and written with a Roman alphabet ...

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Thailand expects to open up a humanitarian corridor in about a month to deliver aid to suffering civilians in war-torn Myanmar, Thai Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara ...

Whenever a Myanmar national reveals that he or she does not have a surname, foreigners usually wonder why. Myanmar might be one of the very few countries in the world where at least 90 percent of its ...

Turns out, Myanmar used be in the bottom of the world internet penetration ranking list, right alongside the most unfortunate African countries. And then they climbed up. For the past 3 years Myanmar ...