The 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday. A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday, resulting in mounting casualties and flattened ...

Critics say election an exercise to formalise junta rule Military-backed party on course to win with opposition absent Junta says government to be formed in April, expects international recognition ...

UN and many western countries as well as human rights groups say that in the absence of a meaningful opposition the election is neither free, fair nor credible Voters in war-torn Myanmar queued up on ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Myanmar’s junta created a capital to withstand an invasion. Now, the military struggles to project an image of control over a crumbling nation. An empty road in front of decommissioned tanks at the ...

An independent human rights expert has urged the international community to reject the electoral process organised by Myanmar’s military government, after the first round of voting revealed widespread ...

The jsPDF library for generating PDF documents in JavaScript applications is vulnerable to a critical vulnerability that allows an attacker to steal sensitive data from the local filesystem by ...

Gen. Nerdah Mya, son of the late Gen. Bo Mya, declares himself president of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kawthoolei. The son of the late Karen leader Gen. Bo Mya has declared the creation of a new ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has inherited one of ASEAN's biggest headaches: coaxing Myanmar's defiant military junta to honor the bloc's long-stalled peace plan. That task officially fell to ...

Myanmar shares a 1,300 mile border with China and is very much in the superpower’s “sphere of influence” – much like Venezuela is within America’s. The growing instability in the Mekong region ...