China’s growing involvement in Myanmar’s civil war is propping up the regime for now, but Beijing underestimates the opposition’s resolve, fueling further instability.

Beijing is increasingly shaping the outcome of Myanmar’s civil war, not by supporting one side, but by controlling where ...

Nawnghkio is strategically located on the main Mandalay-Lashio-Muse trade route linking Myanmar and China and is a gateway to ...

In Lashio, Myanmar, a local resident filmed countless winged termites gathering in the backyard on May 24. The swarm is part ...

Beijing continues to push for a political settlement that will allow strategic China-backed infrastructure projects to move ...

In one of Myanmar's most symbolic victories from its four-year civil war, thousands of rebels captured the northern city of Lashio in August 2024 following intense street battles in which more ...

Thousands of resistance fighters from half a dozen rebel armies took the city of Lashio and overran a military command center 75 miles from the Chinese border. Facing junta artillery and ...

The chief of Myanmar's military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, has for the first time since seizing power four years ago met with President Xi Jinping of China, a top ally of his military ...

LASHIO: The emergency ward of the 500-bed Lashio General Hospital reopened at around 9 am on May 2, and efforts are underway to reopen the hospital within a week. At around 1 pm on May 2 ...

The ceasefire monitoring team's main task is to oversee a smooth handover of the urban areas of Lashio, the de facto capital of northern Shan state, from ethnic rebels back to the military regime ...

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) ousted Myanmar’s military from the city of Lashio in August 2024, capturing their northeastern command and a key trade route to China. Analysts ...

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