A violent civil war between the China-backed military junta ruling Myanmar and a patchwork of pro-democracy rebels in the Southeast Asian nation is not getting much attention in the West, but China’s ...

BANGKOKBANGKOK — Several top Myanmar celebrities who were detained for criticizing the army’s seizure of power were released from prison Wednesday under pardons issued by the military government, ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s government is trying to measure public support for a religious conversion bill put forward by nationalist Buddhist monks that would require anyone who wants to convert ...