Myanmar
Acting president of the National Unity Government (NUG), Duwa Lashi La, called for revolt in “every corner of the country” against the regime.
Suspected ethnic Rakhine rebels disguised as a sports team stormed a bus in rural Myanmar and took 31 hostages -- mostly off-duty firefighters and construction workers—authorities said Sunday.
A 22-year-old man has been injured after a crocodile pounced on him at the edge of Ayeyarwady River.
More than two-fifths of women surveyed in Myanmar were asked for a bribe from healthcare providers and more than one-fifth were slapped, mocked or otherwise abused during childbirth in health centres.
Myanmar's Bozhena Antoniyar had to side-step conservative parents to take up bare-knuckle fighting, but her stealth paid off on her MMA debut when she knocked out her opponent in a record 24 seconds.
Researchers have discovered that Asian elephant footprints can create stable, safe breeding grounds for frogs in Myanmar.
Myanmar is the last nation to embrace unicode that has significant numbers of people online. Without it, most users see international content—and a lot from within the country—as lines of meaningless symbols.
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced across Rakhine and Chin states this year, as the military battles ethnic Rakhine Buddhist rebels, a UN rights expert said Monday.
Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a "serious risk of genocide," UN investigators said Monday, warning the repatriation of a million already driven from the country by the army remains "impossible."