YANGON: Myanmar authorities are preparing to organise the unique floating Thingyan festival on Inle Lake in Nyaungshwe ...

Coup leader Sen-Gen Min Aung Hlaing reportedly urged Russian business officials not to be deterred from investing in mining ...

YANGON, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar authorities have seized 49 kg of heroin blocks in eastern Myanmar's Shan state, the state-run daily Myanma Alinn reported on Friday. Acting on a tip-off, ...

Regime deputy Soe Win orders progress on Kyaukphyu SEZ-port before June deadline despite onslaught by Arakan Army.

According to a news agency reports that were released on Wednesday, Myanmar's police recently eradicated 48 acres of opium poppy grounds in Shan stat ...

Min Aung Hlaing hosts Chinese envoy for talks on Beijing’s Shan intervention and support for regime’s planned poll.

Bangladesh has extended the power of commissioned army officials to enforce law and order amid the absence of police forces ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields ... to get by," he told AFP in rural Pekon township of eastern Shan state. He says he regrets growing the substance — the ...

Caught between conflict and survival, Myanmar's displaced communities are turning to poppy farming, fuelling a booming opium ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A local resistance group fighting against Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged responsibility for the killing last week of a Buddhist monk and his disciple in the country’s ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...