A United Nations report shows that Myanmar has taken the place of Afghanistan as the world’s largest producer of opium.
The Rohingya Muslim people of Burma are facing what some have called genocide in their homeland, long denied citizenship rights and now…
As Burma's opium wars continue despite the country's democratic opening, activists are using the new political space to advocate for a more…
Last week, Burma's President Thein Sein signed a cease-fire with eight armed rebel groups in a bid to bring the country's multiple ethnic…
After weeks of escalating tensions along the remote mountain border, a Burmese MiG-29 fighter jet carried out an air-strike on Chinese territory…
In another grim signal of a widening war in northern Burma's opium zones, last week saw an outbreak of intense…
Despite a democratic opening and hopes for peace with the ethnic insurgencies in the northern hinterlands, horrific accounts of rights…