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Military intelligence has operated under a variety of names during a number of different dictatorships, but its terror tactics remain the same.

According to reports, approximately 300 troops of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) have recently entered the Mong Yaw region of Lashio District, located in Shan State. Locals told the Shan Herald that a UWSA column of nearly 300 troops entered the Mong Yaw region of Lashio District on the west side of the Salween River from the east of the Salween River this week. "Wa troops

Strategic interests have led Beijing to make its support for the Myanmar junta more explicit in recent months, but it may come to regret doing so.

In Part Two of an interview, Asia security expert Jason Tower says to end Myanmar’s crisis, the NUG, EAOs, civil society and diverse global actors must work together.

A low-intensity but bloody battle is being fought to contain the flow of drugs from Southeast Asia’s ‘Golden Triangle’.

Deng Xijun’s recent trip to the Myanmar-China border to meet with ethnic armed organization representatives was his second in three months.

We are so used to national states having clearly defined borders with associated immigration officials that it was a surprise to discover a corner of Myanmar that appears, for all intents and purposes, to be part of China. Nicholas Nugent reports from the border town of Mong La.

Charismatic animals like elephants and snow leopards take the conservation spotlight, but wild goats and sheep need protection from illegal hunting too. Here's why.

Hit by political instability, armed conflict and sanctions since the military coup in 2021, Myanmar could grow as a potential threat to Asian rhinos, including the greater one-horned rhinos found in India and Nepal, says a report on rhino horns trafficking across the globe, released by Wildlife Justice Commission, based in the Netherlands. 

China must use its diplomatic leverage over isolated Myanmar to tackle the scam networks menacing Asia, a Kuala Lumpur-based rights group said on Monday (Oct 17), as it warned Malaysians were among the hundreds still trapped inside the Mekong region’s massive online fraud industry. The scams are run mainly by Chinese gangs, paying or duping young people to target their...