Category: General

The teaching of Mandarin Chinese is now prevalent in many government-run schools in Myanmar’s Mongla autonomous special region, local teachers say, in the remote border area in eastern Shan state that has become dependent on nearby China for business a…

GENEVA – A U.N. investigator finds that two years after the violent expulsion of more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, the situation in their home country remains too dangerous for them to return from their refuge in Cox’s Bazaar, Banglades…

China has offered to facilitate a visit by a group of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar’s Rakhine state to check the situation there, a senior Bangladeshi official said, while Rohingya leaders and authorities in Dhaka have signaled support for the proposal….

BANGKOK – Less than two months into its term, Thailand’s post-junta government is fending off a series of challenges to its very existence, including a brewing political storm over the Cabinet’s failure to recite the full oath of office.A general elect…

Clashes erupted Saturday between rival groups in Hong Kong in the latest round of demonstrations that began with calls for democratic reforms in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.The skirmishes broke out shortly after pro-democracy demonstrators gat…

The Myanmar government on Friday stressed the importance of an upcoming meeting between its peace negotiators and the Northern Alliance group of ethnic armies to try to end escalated hostilities in northern Shan state, and warned of possible negative c…

Hindu Rohingya refugees who fled a military crackdown in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state two years ago have issued an appeal to State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi to let them leave refugee camps in Bangladesh and return to Myanmar, according to a mobile …