Synthetic drug production and trafficking in the region, particularly out of Myanmar’s Shan State, has grown exponentially in recent years, says former foreign correspondent Nirmal Ghosh.

State media in Myanmar say the Southeast Asian nation's military government has recaptured a strategic gateway town after ...

Myanmar’s regime is close to retaking rebel-held Nawnghkio, a strategic gateway to northern Shan State, as it moves into the ...

Bloody conflict has splintered many families in Myanmar over the past four years. But for one set of siblings, a surprise ...

Junta airstrikes caused 35 civilian casualties—eight deaths and 27 injuries—in a 48-hour period earlier this week as the ...

The earthquake wreaked havoc in the Sagaing-Mandalay region, Shan state, and the national capital, Nay Pyi Taw, leaving at least 3,800 people dead, thousands injured, and tens of thousands displaced, ...

Shan state has largely kept out of the protracted civil war, in which an assortment of armed groups are battling the junta. The fighting has also roiled the Kachin mining belt and pushed many ...

Soldiers from the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) pose with the MNDAA flag after capturing a Myanmar military base at Magra-tapok hill in northern Shan State on October 27, 2023.

Amid the growing drug trafficking in Myanmar and Thailand, the two nations held their 26th Myanmar-Thailand Joint Drug Control Meeting in Taunggyi, Myanmar''s Shan state, to strengthen cross-border ...

Over the past year, Beijing has mediated talks between the Myanmar military and the Three Brotherhood Alliance of ethnic armed groups, which made significant gains in northern Shan State in late ...