The country’s cities have been spared the violence of a hard-fought civil war. But as the economy has hollowed out, many ...

On September 15, 2025, the location transmitter of an Iranian oil tanker called Reef pinged near Iraq’s offshore Basrah Oil Terminal. Reef was actually several hundred kilometers away at the Iranian ...

Seeking international legitimacy, Myanmar's ruling military junta claims elections this week are a return to democracy. But it will take more than the junta's word to convince the EU that the polls ...

It is a contest that the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), essentially the military party, is guaranteed to win. A USDP victory is likely to make Senior General Min Aung ...

(The Hague) – International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings in the Myanmar genocide case highlight the need for justice for the ethnic Rohingya, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, Global Justice Center ...

Viu has expanded its content offering with the new vertical video section Viu Shorts, featuring curated micro-dramas in Chinese, Korean, Thai and Indonesian. “We are thrilled to add a new facet to our ...

Asian streaming giant Viu has expanded its content offerings with the debut of Viu Shorts, a new vertical video section featuring bite-sized dramas in multiple Asian languages. The platform offers ...

Voters queued at polling stations in Myanmar on Sunday to vote in a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected ...

The Trump administration on Monday said it would end yet another Temporary Protected Status immigration program, this time for nearly 4,000 immigrants from Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia ...

Since the February 2021 coup that returned the centre of Myanmar to military rule, much debate has revolved around whether the military junta might collapse. The question has been whether the exiled ...

Since Myanmar’s military overthrew the country’s democratically elected government in 2021, it has ruled with devastating violence. Junta forces have bombed civilians in a bid to suppress rebellious ...

Among Myanmar’s diverse demographic groups, the young generation has been one of the most adversely affected cohorts of the 2021 military coup. Heightened insecurity, the crippled economy, shrinking ...