Myanmar's detained former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest, a spokesperson for the military government told media.
"Since the weather is extremely hot, it is not only for Aung San Suu Kyi ... For (...)
Once considered among the most promising economies in Southeast Asia with a growing middle class, Myanmar is now suffering from soaring levels of poverty as a devastating civil war drives tens of millions further into destitution, according to a new (...)
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 Indian government has so far rescued 250 citizens in Cambodia who were forced to run online scams.
They were promised jobs but "forced to undertake illegal cyber work", India's foreign ministry said.
Recent reports have said more than 5,000 (...)
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 (...)
An auction of the villa of Myanmar's detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi has failed after no bids were made for it.
A court had ordered its sale in January following a long-running ownership dispute with her brother.
Lawyers for Ms Suu Kyi, who has (...)
An Indian man who made a fortune by selling lottery tickets is in the spotlight after he was revealed to be the top donor to political parties under a controversial funding scheme.
Santiago Martin's company, Future Gaming and Hotel Services Pvt. (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development has approved the classification of foreign investors (owners of private establishments) as Saudis under the Nitaqat Saudization program. This is one of the provisions for the (...)
Hundreds of people have been rescued from a scam center in the Philippines that made them pose as lovers online.
Police said they raided the center on Thursday and rescued 383 Filipinos, 202 Chinese and 73 other foreign nationals.
The center, which (...)
India's government has announced plans to enact a controversial citizenship law that has been criticized for being anti-Muslim.
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will allow non-Muslim religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan (...)
It's what Malaysia Airlines told him when flight MH370 disappeared, with his son Yanlin on board.
"For years I have been asking what do you mean by 'lost contact'? It seems to me that if you lose contact with someone, you should be able to reconnect (...)
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 (...)
US prosecutors have charged an alleged member of the Japanese mafia with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials.
Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, tried to sell uranium and plutonium that he believed would be transferred to Iran to build a nuclear bomb, it is (...)
JAKARTA —Budiman Sujatmiko has lost none of the passion that he used to show as one of the boldest student opponents of Suharto, the soft-spoken but ruthless dictator who ruled Indonesia for 32 years.
"In the 1990s our challenge was (...)
Myanmar has handed over three Chinese warlords to Beijing, who were notorious for trafficking thousands of foreign nationals to forcibly run scams.
Bai Suocheng, Wei Chaoren and Liu Zhengxiang led three of four families that ruled Laukkaing on (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Last year saw the highest number of civilian casualties killed or injured by explosives in more than a decade, according to new research.
The UK-based charity Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) recorded a 122% percent increase in civilian fatalities (...)
China has protested to Myanmar after five people were injured by artillery shells lobbed during battles between its ruling junta and rebel groups that strayed into a small town near their border, Reuters reported quoting a Chinese Foreign Ministry (...)
MADINAH — The first batch of Umrah pilgrims, as part of the Guests of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Program for Hajj, Umrah, and Visit, arrived in Madinah on Thursday. This initial group, under the initiative led by the Ministry of Islamic (...)
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 large crowd of Indonesian students stormed a convention center housing hundreds of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in the city of Banda Aceh on Wednesday, demanding they be deported, Reuters footage showed.
A city police spokesperson in Banda Aceh (...)
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has appealed for action in the wake of a mob attack against refugees in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on Wednesday.
Hundreds of young people stormed a building basement where scores of Rohingya refugees were sheltered, (...)