As China cut domestic extraction, uncontrolled mining in areas of Myanmar ruled by powerful ethnic armies has boomed.

Many don’t know that a headmaster became the UN secretary-general. It is an exciting story. In 1945, World War II ended and the UN was founded. In 1946, Norway’s Foreign Minister Trygve Lie became the ...

Beijing is increasingly shaping the outcome of Myanmar’s civil war, not by supporting one side, but by controlling where ...

Myanmar is one of the least electrified countries in the world. The country’s Ministry of Energy and Electricity claims (over estimates?) that 50 percent of the population has been electrified as of ...