BANGKOK, March 28 (Reuters) - When armed rebels seized northern Myanmar's rare-earths mining belt in October, they dealt a blow to the country's embattled military junta - and wrested control of a ...

Shaking was felt as far away as Bangkok in neighboring Thailand. By John Yoon A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said, damaging ...

At least 144 people have been killed and 730 others injured in Myanmar following a powerful earthquake, according to the head of the country's military government. "The death toll and injuries are ...

NASA on Friday announced the four crew members of Crew-11 who will be part of Space X's next trip to the International Space ...

Pilot Mike Fincke, from Emsworth, Pa., JAXA astronaut Mission Specialist Kimiya Yui, from Japan and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Oleg Platonov, from Russia. Platonov and Yui are expected ...

It was Tom Andrews, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, who first raised the prospect that Myanmar was a failed state, just over two years ago. Bradley ...

The junta conducted a census last year as part of preparations to create a voter list, for which it said a full on-ground survey was compiled in only 145 of Myanmar's 330 townships. It says 53 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Foreign Affairs repatriated 176 Filipinos from illegal scam centers in Myanmar on Wednesday, March 26 — part of a larger rescue operation that has so ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military chief used a speech at the annual Armed Forces Day celebration Thursday to reaffirm plans to hold a general election by year's end and call on opposition ...

From left are Mission Specialist Kimiya Yui from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Commander NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, Mission Specialist Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos, and Pilot NASA ...

TOKYO (Japan News/ANN): A start-up established by officials of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is going to start a business of forecasting risks of damage in underground sewage pipes ...