President Barack Obama's November visit to Burma showcased his Administration's approach to Burma. It is one of gentle persuasion and positive reinforcement, except for sanctions tightly targeted at ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

An interactive prison map of Myanmar was created in support of the ‘Free Burma’s Video Journalists campaign. The map identifies the locations and gives a brief description of Myanmar’s 43 prisons ...

Myanmar's military has seized power after a decade of the leadership by the National League for Democracy at the helm of Aung San Suu Kyi. Ms Suu Kyi and other senior members of her governing party ...

Mohammed Rofiq, a Rohingya refugee, reads Islamic scripture in his home in Kutupalong refugee camp, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Reuters Three years ago, Myanmar’s military burned the Rohingya village ...

Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? The last time Burma really mattered to the United States, Imperial Japanese forces were marching on Asia. Vinegar Joe Stillwell built a road ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. South-east Asia has a new challenger on the tourism block: Burma. The ministry of hotels and tourism announced ...

This past weekend a cyclone hit Myanmar (formerly Burma), killing at least 15,000 with many more missing. It’s a massive tragedy. Now data on the cyclone and its path, from the UN Institute for ...

Tattooing is a deep-rooted tradition in parts of Myanmar, also known as Burma ByNews from Elsewhere... ...media reports from around the world, found by BBC Monitoring ...

The foreign ministry today said Myanmar overnight amended partially its newly drawn map tending to show Bangladesh’s St. Martin’s Island as part of their territory. “They kept the map colours ...

Three years ago, Myanmar’s military burned the Rohingya village of Kan Kya to the ground and bulldozed over its remains. Last year, the government erased its name from official maps, according to the ...