General Min Aung Hlaing, leader of Myanmar’s military junta, became the country’s interim president on Monday after figurehead leader Myint Swe was placed on medical leave, state media reported. “The ...

HILLSDALE, Kan. (AP) — A teenage refugee from Myanmar who recently arrived in the U.S. with his family has drowned in a lake near Kansas City. Om Kee Hata drowned Friday while swimming with friends in ...

When Om Kee Hata's mother saved money to buy him new shoes or clothes, the 17-year-old Myanmar refugee demurred, telling his single mom to spend the money on his four younger siblings instead. When ...

Derek Mitchell served as the U.S. ambassador to Myanmar between 2012 and 2016, the first U.S. envoy since 1990. He is now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), ...

BATTLE LINES are changing quickly in Myanmar. Resistance forces—comprising hundreds of factions, many with competing aims—have won a series of victories over the army, which controls the government.

Myanmar's shadow government said an airstrike by the ruling junta had killed at least 17 students and injured 20 others at a school in an opposition-controlled area on Monday (May 12), despite a ...

The chaotic country is now a magnet for criminal syndicates, particularly from China, destabilizing law enforcement across much of Asia. The chaotic country is now a magnet for criminal syndicates, ...