Hegseth responded at the heated Senate confirmation hearing that he couldn't tell Duckworth the exact number of ASEAN nations ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates’ sentences as part of a mass amnesty marking the 77th anniversary of ...

BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's military government is tightening its monitoring of remittances by migrant workers overseas, both to secure foreign currency and to allay money laundering concerns that ...

In 2024, across Singapore and South-east Asia, conversations about world affairs seem to surface more frequently in daily life – at dinner tables, with colleagues in the office or over coffee ...

Some have suggested that Myanmar, which has been at war essentially since the junta’s 2021 coup and where the military has steadily lost ground (it controls around twenty percent of the country ...

Months after announcing that the Free Movement Regime (FMR) along the Myanmar border has been entirely suspended, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has brought in fresh protocol to regulate ...

The growing territorial gains of the Arakan Army, and its seemingly undeterred momentum, have raised questions about the rebel group's ultimate goal. Since Myanmar's military staged a coup and ...

Ma Kyein Nan, 32, has had to flee her home twice since the military coup in 2021 plunged Myanmar into chaos and civil war. First, Nan, a Protestant Christian and civil servant, moved back to her ...

DHAKA – The ongoing conflict in Myanmar between the military junta, the Arakan Army, and other rebel groups has thrown up yet another curveball for Bangladesh. The Arakan Army recently claimed to have ...

BANGKOK – The Public Health Ministry on Sunday set up the forward emergency operations centre (EOC) in Tak province to monitor and minimise the impact from a cholera outbreak across the border in ...