When asked to comment on reports by Myanmar's election commission that the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party achieved a sweeping victory in the country's general election, Chinese ...

In Kolkata, residents reported that the ground shook around 6:07 pm. People in many areas felt the tremor clearly and stepped out of buildings as a precaution. Similar shaking was reported from ...

Myanmar’s junta called for ex-civil servants who quit their jobs in protest over the coup five years ago to report back to work, pledging to remove absent state employees from “blacklists” on Sunday.

China has executed four people for causing the deaths of six people and running Myanmar-based scam and gambling operations worth more than $4bn, authorities said. In November, five people, including ...

With the third phase of Myanmar’s multi-stage election that finished on 25 January, its military junta wants a positive start to 2026. The junta’s goals over the coming months are to reassure fellow ...

A human rights group representing the Chin ethnic minority last month submitted a legal complaint in Dili accusing the military of a litany of abuses. Legal authorities in Timor-Leste have initiated ...

Feb 4 (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta will form a new entity to oversee both the military and civilian administration, a move experts say will allow paramount ruler Min Aung Hlaing to become president ...

Tremors were felt in Kolkata as an earthquake hit Myanmar on Tuesday. The estimated magnitude of the earthquake was around 5.9 on the Richter scale, which measures the magnitude of earthquakes. There ...

The Myanmar military’s proxy party has been declared the overwhelming winner of the country’s recent election, ensuring that it will form the country’s next government and tighten the army’s hold on ...

(Reuters) -- Myanmar's junta will form a new entity to oversee both the military and civilian administration, a move experts say will allow paramount ruler Min Aung Hlaing to become president without ...

Feb ‌3 (Reuters) - A ‌magnitude 6 earthquake ‍struck Myanmar on Tuesday, ⁠the German ‌Research Center for Geosciences(GFZ)said. The ‌quake ‍was at ⁠a depth of 10km (6.21 miles), GFZ said. (Reporting ...

BEIJING — In less than a week, China conducted a series of executions on a scale rarely seen in recent decades. In all, 16 core members of mafia-like crime syndicates were put to death for a range of ...