Myanmar rebels fighting the junta say they have seized the last remaining military base in a key border town, dealing the latest significant blow to the country's military rulers as they struggle to cling to power.
About 200 soldiers abandoned their (...)
Nearly seven years after the Myanmar military killed thousands of Muslim Rohingyas, in what the UN called "textbook ethnic cleansing", it wants their help.
From interviews with Rohingyas living in Rakhine State the BBC has learned of at least 100 of (...)
The opposition in Myanmar says it ordered a mass drone attack on the country's embattled military in the capital Nay Pyi Taw.
The National Unity Government (NUG) said 29 drones armed with explosives targeted the airport, air force base and military (...)
The two young men are bloodied, their feet clamped in wooden stocks.
"What is the PDF (People's Defense Force)?" their tormentors yell. "Dogs," they reply.
Humiliated and dehumanized, the men are hogtied and dragged across the rough ground by their (...)
Thailand has revoked the visa of a Swiss man who faced growing backlash after reports that he allegedly kicked a local woman sitting on the steps near his villa in Phuket.
Urs Fehr and his Thai wife Khanuengnit said they thought she was intruding on (...)
Anna wakes up about four times a night from dreams in which she is being sent to the front lines of a bloody war and forced to fight.
It's a terrifying prospect that could become a reality for Anna and millions of her peers across Myanmar after the (...)
Thailand's convicted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has arrived at his mansion in the capital Bangkok after being released on parole.
The billionaire was freed from a police hospital, where he had been serving a one-year jail sentence for (...)
A Taiwanese YouTuber has been jailed in Cambodia for attempting to stage his own abduction with a friend.
Chen Neng-chuan was arrested with his friend, Lu Tsu-hsien, after posting a video of them apparently being detained and beaten up by security (...)
Thailand's jailed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will soon walk free from detention after his parole was approved, according to Thailand's justice minister, just six months after his dramatic return to the kingdom.
The announcement caps an (...)
A Canadian man has been arrested in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai after he allegedly opened the door on a commercial plane and triggered the evacuation slide prior to takeoff.
According to a statement issued by the Chiang Mai International (...)
An anti-war Russian-Belarusian rock band says all its members have left Thailand for Israel after fears they would be deported to Russia.
Bi-2 had been playing in a Thai resort popular with Russian tourists when members were arrested for (...)
The Thai pro-democracy party which won the most votes at last year's election could now be forced to dissolve after a court ruled its key policy illegal.
Move Forward is not in government but its promises to campaign on changing royal defamation (...)
A Russian-Belarusian rock band with anti-war views that had been touring Thailand is under threat of being deported back to Russia, activists say.
Human Rights Watch has urged the Thai government not to deport Bi- 2, who have been criticized by (...)
Thailand's reformist political champion will be re-instated as an MP after winning a trial his supporters say was aimed at ending his political career.
The Harvard-educated Pita Limjaroenrat and his Move Forward party won the most votes in a huge (...)
Last Tuesday, a noisy crowd of several hundred people stood in the small main square of Pyin Oo Lwin, a popular Myanmar hill town, to hear a bespectacled monk make a startling suggestion.
Min Aung Hlaing, the country's military ruler, should step (...)
A Thai court has sentenced a man to 50 years in jail for comments deemed to have defamed the monarchy — the highest ever sentence handed down under the country's notorious lese majeste law.
Thirty-year-old Mongkol Thirakot was originally sentenced (...)
At least 20 people have died following an explosion at a fireworks depot in central Thailand, according to officials.
People were also injured in the incident, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said, but it did not say how (...)
Ethnic insurgents in western Myanmar say they have captured an important town on one of the main routes to India from military forces.
The Arakan Army (AA) — one of three armed groups that launched a major new offensive against the military in (...)
Thailand and China will permanently waive visa requirements for each other's citizens from March, Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said.
Thailand waived visas for Chinese nationals in September in a bid to boost tourist arrivals.
The programme (...)
A Thai female MP has been sentenced to six years in jail under the country's harsh lese-majeste laws and may lose her seat if denied bail.
Rukchanok "Ice" Srinork was accused of posting tweets critical of the monarchy. She pleaded not guilty.
Ice's (...)
Myanmar is now the world's largest producer of opium, overtaking Afghanistan, a UN report says.
Its opium production this year is estimated to rise by 36% to 1,080 tonnes, far ahead of the 330 tonnes Afghanistan reportedly produced.
Poppy (...)
Seventeen freed Thai hostages have returned to Bangkok after being held in captivity by Hamas for nearly 50 days.
Their release is separate to an agreement that has so far seen Hamas free 70 Israeli women and children.
The extension of the truce has (...)
Almost three years on from its bloody coup, Myanmar's military junta is facing the biggest threat to its hold on power as it fights wars on multiple fronts across the Southeast Asian nation.
In recent weeks, powerful armed ethnic militias have (...)
A Thai para-athlete and former soldier shot his bride and three others before killing himself on his wedding day, police told the BBC.
Chaturong Suksuk, 29 and Kanchana Pachunthuek, 44, were married on Saturday in north-east Thailand.
According to (...)
Eleven people, including eight children, have been killed in Myanmar's Chin State after a military jet bombed a school, villagers say.
Locals say the strike on the remote village of Vuilu in the mountainous region happened on Wednesday.
Myanmar is (...)