This article analyses how families and communities in Shan State, Myanmar, have responded to rising youth drug use, and the impacts that these responses have on young people. It first examines the ...
Frontier areas in Myanmar have historically been major areas for drug production, especially the region where its borders meet with those of Laos and Thailand, known as the Golden Triangle.
The confluence of the Ruak and Mekong rivers sits in a sleepy, broad plain that runs through a historically lawless section of highland Southeast Asia. It marks the three-way border between ...
The escalating conflict in Myanmar is causing people to flee. Has the government planned for all possibilities? Here are ...
A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar's Kachin ethnic minority has been detained by the ...
BANGKOK (AP) — A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was detained by the authorities just hours after he was released from prison ...
Christians make up about 6% of Myanmar’s overwhelmingly Buddhist population, but about 34% of Kachin's estimated 1.7 million population. Human rights groups said minority religions including ...