Myanmar hosts more than 100 ethnic groups with their own customary systems of land and forest management. Recent amendments to land law conflict with those systems, however, with critics warning that ...

PEKON, Myanmar — Hundreds of protesting Myanmar tribespeople marched up a hillside to a cavernous facility where a Chinese joint venture's giant milling machines stand ready to grind up the rocks of ...

With Malaria and tuberculosis screening out front and sacrifices to jungle gods out back, health worker Htan Pi and her shaman mother are an unlikely double-act in their isolated Myanmar village. This ...

Ngon Pok remembers his father and grandfather returning triumphantly to his tribal village in Myanmar's far north with a human head -- and the agony of the tattoo he was given to celebrate their ...

Since a 2021 coup, Myanmar has been riven by civil war and shattered into a patchwork of loosely governed territories ripe for exploitation by unregulated miners ...

Locals read through newspapers with fronts leading with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the International Court of Justice hearing outside a roadside shop Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, in Yangon, ...