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'Alarming' hunger crisis in Myanmar's Rakhine, WFP warns Around 16 million people in Myanmar are acutely food insecure, WFP says Rohingya are arriving in Bangladesh in much poorer health, aid group ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military has taken back control of a major district capital in Shan State more than a year after losing it to an armed ethnic minority rebel group, state media reported on ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Right Livelihood Award was awarded Wednesday to activists from Sudan and Myanmar, where military and political violence devastates communities, to the Pacific Islands, where ...

ousted an elected civilian government. Some 3.6 million people are displaced across the war-torn nation, according to the United Nations, and a lack of funding has left millions of vulnerable people ...

Laos has joined Cambodia and Myanmar in the bottom-tier three category on the 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report released in Washington overnight, which blamed corruption, complicity, and even ...

Eleven members of a notorious organised crime family have been sentenced to death in China for running international online scams worth £1billion. The Wenzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced ...

New York – Members of the Rohingya community who fled violence in Myanmar have addressed a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) conference seeking to bring attention to the suffering of the ...

FILE - Rohingya refugees wait for food to be distributed during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at their camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman, File) FILE - ...

Nearly five years on from Myanmar’s 2020 general election, the country’s struggle over political authority has entered a new phase. The State Administration Council (SAC), the military junta that ...