As China cut domestic extraction, uncontrolled mining in areas of Myanmar ruled by powerful ethnic armies has boomed.

PANGSAN, Myanmar (Reuters) - In a remote casino in northeastern Myanmar, China's pervasive campaign against graft has taken its toll. Hundreds of local traders and farmers place petty bets as low as ...

It has a standing army of 25,000, manufactures its own guns and conscripts at least one member of each household -- meet the United Wa State Army: Communist, reclusive, China-backed rebels determined ...

KYAING TONG, Myanmar, Sept 10 (Reuters) - For decades they were known as some of Asia's most ferocious fighters, a tribe of fearless jungle warriors with a penchant for chopping off their rivals' ...

BANGKOK — Recently renewed combat in northeastern Myanmar between troops of the military government and ethnic minority militias has in the past few days become more complicated, as two minority ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Myanmar’s downtrodden Rohingya Muslims have been denied citizenship, targeted in deadly sectarian violence and corralled into dirty camps without aid. To heap on the indignity, ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — Myanmar’s military government appears to be considering reviving a massive China-backed hydroelectric dam project, work on which was suspended more than a decade ago after protests ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Washington lobbying firm has signed an agreement worth $3 million a year with Myanmar's Ministry of Information to help the long-time military-ruled country rebuild relations ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Recently renewed combat in northeastern Myanmar between troops of the military government and ethnic minority militias has in the past few days become more complicated, as two minority ...