A Chinese tourist has been arrested for allegedly scouring villages to find Burmese virgins willing to be mail-order brides for wealthy Communist officials. Luo Fei was said to have trawled through ...

The Irrawaddy looks at two key ethnic armies that are fighting to prop up the regime—one in southern Shan and the other in ...

The fish commonly found in the Ruak River include Great White Sheatfish, Bagrid Catfish, Asian Redtail Catfish, Leptobarbus ...

Efforts to shut down online scam centers in Myanmar appear to gain momentum with a visit by a top Chinese official to the border zone ahead of expected large-scale repatriations of workers in the illi ...

Thailand's army says some 260 people believed to have been trafficked and trapped into working in online scam centers are to ...

Thai authorities say they are requesting arrest warrants for three leaders of an ethnic Karen militia believed to be ...

In northern Shan State, Mongyal Township, within the Mongha region, an additional 21 Chinese nationals engaged in illegal ...

The Information Team of the State Administration Council (SAC) has announced the arrest of 81 individuals involved in illegal ...

China’s apparent demands for a retreat from the northern Shan State capital Lashio is an unacceptable breach of Myanmar’s ...

A Myanmar rebel group said on Jan. 31 that its members killed two prisoners in a rare admission of deadly violence as it fights the ruling junta to maintain control of the country's western ...

However, it said the Myanmar military manufactured its own landmines ... Paing, a 14-year-old from Shan state, was injured in 2023 when he went out searching for his family's cow with his father.

The EAOs now largely dominate Myanmar's borderland states from Chin, Kachin, and Shan to Karenni, Karen, and Mon states. It is widely estimated that the SAC now controls less than half of the ...