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Our writer stops by the Pangboche Monastery, a 600-year-old Sherpa religious center where Mount Everest climbers receive a blessing before their expeditions ...
Plainclothes police officers grapple with a protester, as people attempt to defy a ban and march on Taksim Square to mark May ...
The writer became an aid worker for Mount Everest climbers during the devastating disaster. A decade later, he explores how ...
A family of Syrian Kurds described the late Pope as “our angel” as they told how he “rescued” them from a refugee camp.
When a massive earthquake hit Myanmar last month, centuries of sacred history tumbled ... Thu Nanda has come to visit what ...
Around 200 ethnic Karen people fled fighting in Myanmar and crossed the border into Thailand, Thai border officials said on Saturday. Fighting has been raging in Myanmar’s eastern Kayin state ...
BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to nearly 4,900 prisoners to mark the country’s traditional new year, state-run media reported Thursday, and an ...
Myanmar has been under military rule since February 2021, when its army ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government. The head of Myanmar's military junta has granted amnesty to ...
Myanmar's military government announced releasing around 4,900 prisoners, with 13 foreigners among them, in a mass amnesty to mark its traditional new year. https://p ...
BANGKOK -- When the leader of Myanmar's military regime, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, attended a Bay of Bengal regional summit in Bangkok earlier this month, it marked a diplomatic breakthrough.
A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar near Meiktila, a region already reeling from a devastating 7.7 magnitude quake in March. While there were no immediate reports of significant ...
A 5.5 magnitude earthquake hit near Myanmar's Meiktila today, adding to anxiety after the devastating 7.7 quake on March 28. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck on Sunday morning near Meiktila ...