Myanmar

The military government acknowledged it withdrew forces from a city on the northeastern border with China after it was taken over by an alliance of ethnic armed groups it has been battling for months.

Since 2017 nearly a million Rohingya people have languished in camps in Bangladesh. Four young Rohingya are being honored by the U.N. refugee agency for documenting their life in vivid photos.

Thousands of people hunkered down Sunday, seeking shelter from a powerful storm that slammed into the coast of Myanmar, tearing the roofs off buildings and killing at least three people.

The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power as the faltering economy has led more people toward the drug trade, according to a new United Nations report.

Myanmar's expected release of more than 5,700 prisoners is expected to include the U.K.'s former envoy to the Asian country, an Australian economist and a Japanese filmmaker, according to state media.

The former prime minister was sentenced to three years for violating the official secrets act, on top of a 20-year sentence already handed down by the military junta that took power in 2021.

Vickie Bowman and her husband were detained for sending information to an activist group and others opposed to military rule, a senior military official said.

A U.N. official calls for new policies across East Asia to halt the soaring production of methamphetamines.

More than 12,500 people in Myanmar have been detained, at least 440,000 have been displaced and about 14 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, the report says.