China-backed mining in Myanmar’s Shan State has surged, devastating forests and poisoning rivers. A 2022 joint venture with ...

An air route known as the Hump, which passed over the Hengduan Range on the eastern fringes of the Himalayas, replaced the ...

Focusing blame for arsenic contamination of the Salween River on Karenni and other EAOs obscures China’s deep role in Myanmar ...

In pitching itself as an alternative global leader to the United States, China repeatedly stresses that it practices a “policy of noninterference.” That was the message Chinese Foreign Minister Wang ...

The TNLA’s return—at Beijing’s insistence—of two towns to the junta this month is the latest example of China’s bullying and ...

Three individuals suspected of operating for an extended period in Myanmar and leveraging armed forces to carry out criminal activities have been indicted on multiple charges in China, prosecutors in ...

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Radio Free Asia, founded nearly three decades ago to report on China and other Asian countries without independent media, ...

The ceasefire with the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, or TNLA, marks a significant victory for Myanmar’s military ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The president of East Timor told The Associated Press on Monday that he would be willing to ...

Myanmar's ruling junta said in October 2025 that it had recaptured from an ethnic armed group a town on a trade highway to ...

Among the opposition’s gains was the strategic town of Kyaukme, located on the Asian Highway 14- also known as the Burma Road- linking Myanmar to the Chinese border. But the junta swiftly ...