The fate of actor Wang Xing prompted outrage in China after he disappeared and had to be saved from a Myanmar scam center. The 31- year-old Wang Xing, who also uses Xingxing as a screen name, traveled to Thailand for what he believed to be a job casting by a major entertainment company.

Although many might regard it as an irrelevant backwater, it’s an emergency that should command the world’s attention

Myanmar marks four years of a bloody civil war on Saturday with anti-regime forces holding the upper hand on battlefields across the country amid growing hopes that the junta led by Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing will buckle and be defeated, perhaps by the end of the year.

This year, looking back four years ago to the coup in 2021, we can see that Myanmar has come a long way, a troubled path of instability and violence. But at the end of the day, the people of Myanmar continue to resist, protest, and fight against the military junta.

Southeast Asian foreign ministers are gathering for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, Malaysia, seeking a breakthrough over Myanmar’s drawn-out civil war and territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Myanmar’s junta now only controls 21% of the country. Even if the regime can be ousted, there are increasing fears the country will split along ethnic lines.

The Australian former special economic adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, imprisoned for 21 months by the Myanmar junta that overthrew her elected government, has urged the Trump administration to release the country’s frozen reserve funds to help finance the democratic opposition.

LANGKAWI, Malaysia — Southeast Asian foreign ministers gathered Sunday for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, Malaysia, seeking a breakthrough over Myanmar’s ...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) under the Philippine chairmanship in 2026 will try to play a larger role on issues besetting the region, including on the Myanmar crisis and the South China Sea,

The United States has suspended its support for global landmine clearing operations, prompting warnings from de-mining charities that the pause will lead to avoidable deaths.

At least 76 Rohingya asylum seekers have come ashore in Indonesia’s Aceh province, local officials said yesterday, a reminder of the humanitarian emergency that continues to unfold on the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Jakarta—The Asean Foreign Ministers’ Retreat held Jan. 18 to 19 in Langkawi, Malaysia, presents a crucial opportunity for Asean to shift its approaches in addressing the ongoing crisis in Myanmar. Myanmar remains one of the region’s most pressing challenges,