Three armed ethnic groups threatened to pull out of Myanmar’s draft nationwide cease-fire agreement on Tuesday in light of continued military offensives by government troops, complicating a fragile peace deal that if finalized could end decades of civil war in the country. The Myanmar National De...

‘These refugees have lost almost everything. We need to help them. Even if that means we’ll have to learn to live with less,’ says mayor of Medyka, a primary crossing point for refugees. Marek Iwasieczko has been averaging just four hours sleep a night since the bombs started falling on Ukraine. ...

Asked recently what she is most pleased with after nine months in government, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi had a simple response: “The fact that the ministers are not corrupt.” In a December 8 interview with Channel NewsAsia, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi did concede that some of the junior offic...