Myanmar’s Kachin state, near the border with China, is a global hub for rare earth minerals. But the dearth of regulations ...

In the home he thought was safe, Mohammad Ismail pines for the daughter who has just been snatched from him and sent back to the country they fled to escape a massacre eight years ago. A country where ...

CHIANG RAI - Illegal rare earth mines in Myanmar's Shan and Kachin states are causing widespread cross-border pollution ...

In Myanmar, where political and ethnic divides run deep, the people collectively cherish one common aspiration - to protect ...

The Meteorological office on Thursday said that a new low-pressure area is developing over the Bay of Bengal, which will bring rain to Kolkata from Saturday.

Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million people speak hundreds of languages and follow different ...

A Shan rights group said sediment carried by the swollen Lwe River from Wa-controlled rare-earth mines is destroying farmland and threatening local livelihoods.

Wisconsin moonstones are only found in a small corner of Marathon County. This business allows people to dig for them.

As accusations of genocide in Gaza mount against Israel, NPR looks at how the term is defined legally and why previously ...

You create a friendly country because our people on the other side want it. India will have a friendly country like Bhutan,' ...

The access controlled six-lane (expandable to eight lanes) greenfield Farrukhabad Link Expressway will come up at an ...

Hundreds of waterborne spectators gathered Friday to watch boat races on Myanmar’s Inle Lake, the highlight of the annual ...