Myanmar’s economy is set to shrink by 2 percent this financial year, due to the effects of intensifying conflict and economic mismanagement by the military junta, according to the latest Myanmar ...

Sentiment is warming among some Southeast Asian nations toward easing Myanmar’s isolation five years after the overthrow of ...

The ruby, measuring 11,000 carats (2.2 kilograms), was unearthed near the town of Mogok, in the upper Mandalay region, the ...

The ruby is considered to be the second-largest by weight ever found in Myanmar, but more valuable due to its superior color ...

LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — Southeast Asian foreign ministers gathered Sunday for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, Malaysia, seeking a breakthrough over Myanmar’s drawn ...

Miners in Myanmar have discovered an 11,000-carat ruby, the second-largest in the country, amid ongoing civil conflict, ...

A 1996 discovery yielded a larger stone at 21,450 carats, however the newly found ruby is deemed more valuable due to its ...

UNITED NATIONS — Myanmar is on “a path to self-destruction” if violence in the conflict-wracked Southeast Asian nation doesn’t end, the U.N. envoy warned on Tuesday. Julie Bishop told the U.N. General ...

Myanmar marks four years of a bloody civil war on Saturday with anti-regime forces holding the upper hand on battlefields across the country amid growing hopes that the junta led by Senior Gen. Min ...

From left to right, Laos's Foreign Affairs Minister Thongsavanh Phomvihane, Myanmar's Permanent Secretary to ASEAN Aung Kyaw Moe, Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Thailand's Foreign ...

Miners in Myanmar have discovered a massive rare ruby that is considered to be the second-largest ever found in the country.