BANGKOK — A unilateral partial ceasefire to facilitate earthquake relief efforts was announced on Saturday by Myanmar’s ...

Shortly after, the ethnic militia groups that rule this area of Myanmar - the Kayin Border Guard Force and the Democratic Kayin Buddhist Army - asked some of the trapped scammers if they wanted to ...

Most are being held either in army camps controlled by the Kayin Border Guard Force ... individuals from many other countries,” said a State Department spokesperson in a statement sent to ...

The scam industry in this region has flourished within Kayin State (formerly known as Karen), which has long sought autonomy from Myanmar's central government. The area has been engulfed in ...

“Scold them when needed.” Four years into the post-coup civil war, with junta jets bombing churches across Christian-majority Chin State, ordinary homes like this have become safer sanctuaries for ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday will address Congress for the first time in his second term, and he’ll do so with an economy that is mostly chugging along. However, recent data has contained ...

A stream of top-level officials from Thailand and China has visited the Thai town of Mae Sot, across the border from Kayin State’s Myawaddy Township over the last month. Deals have been struck with ...

In the S’ghaw Kayin language, for example ... the powerful intelligence chief Colonel Tin Oo was called “Number One and a Half”. During the days of the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), ...

(250218) -- YANGON, Feb. 18, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Feb. 17, 2025 shows law enforcers processing arrested illegal foreign entrants in Myawady township of Kayin State, Myanmar. (Some ...

Onlook Thit Sar, who captured the weather phenomenon near Kayin State, said: 'The tornado started small then grew very quickly to be that big. It lasted for about a minute then disappeared.

At 5:34 a.m. ET on Wednesday, The Associated Press declared Donald Trump the winner of the U.S. presidential race. AP Race Call: Donald Trump is elected the 47th president of the U.S. His win over ...

To better understand which political party enjoys power in each of the states, Ballotpedia has analyzed state government control from 1992-2013 using the concept of a "partisan trifecta." A partisan ...