Officials in Myanmar have destroyed nearly $300 million worth of illegal drugs with massive drug-burning ceremonies taking ...

Myanmar officials destroyed over $300 million worth of illegal drugs, including opium, heroin, and methamphetamine.

Laos, meanwhile, falls under the roster of seven other nations hit with heightened restrictions, together with Burundi, Cuba, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

While China has a near monopoly on rare earth element processing and refining, it has quietly become reliant on raw materials ...

‘Cheaper than beer’: Laos meth prices plummet as Myanmar chaos fuels trade. Front-line workers say methamphetamine pills are being sold for as little as $0.25 each.

BANGKOK – The inclusion of Myanmar and Laos on a list of countries deemed by the Trump administration to pose terrorist and national security threats to the US prompted immediate double takes ...

Myanmar has a desperate past. After a coup in 1962, it suffered 49 years of military rule. Between 2011 and 2021, the army relinquished some power, and for a while that allowed Aung San Suu Kyi, a ...

Laos and Myanmar's inclusion in Trump's blanket ban reflected a lack of basic understanding of the region "from the perspective of the reality on the ground," Bridget Welsh, an honorary research ...

Meanwhile, 117,557 refugees from Myanmar were admitted to the U.S. between 2011 and 2023, according to the Refugee Processing Center, making it the top nation of origin during that period.