The call comes as a new UN report notes an “exponential surge” in methamphetamine production in Myanmar since the 2021 coup ...

Thaksin Shinawatra has urged the government to intensify its anti-drug war against the United Wa State Army (UWSA), known as the Red Wa, that operates in Myanmar, saying the foreign affairs minister ...

Authorities say arsenic levels in the Kok Thai river now exceed safety limits, sparking fears of ecological disaster ...

The UWSA denied involvement in the drug trade after the former Thai prime minister singled the group out and said Bangkok may have to take unilateral action.

One of the few things that is widely known about Myanmar’s Wa State is the central role that it plays in Southeast Asia’s multibillion-dollar narcotics trade. But for the United Wa State Army ...

April 17 (Reuters) - Myanmar's ethnic minority Wa militia will suspend all work at mines in areas it controls from August, an information official from the militia force, the United Wa State Army ...

FILE - A soldier from the United Wa State Army is seen on a street of Nandeng in the Wa region of Myanmar, Sept. 3, 2009. Recently renewed combat in northeastern Myanmar between troops of the ...

Myanmar’s Wa State is a de facto independent state tightly governed by the United Wa State Party (UWSP). The United Wa State Army (UWSA), the UWSP’s armed wing, comprises more than 30,000 ...

A member of the Karenni insurgent forces is seen outside a building near Loikaw in Kayah State, Myanmar, this month. (Reuters) Nearly three years after Myanmar’s military staged a coup against a ...

MAE HONG SON, Thailand — When jets began circling over her camp in July, Thandar Soe, 11, had already run from the Myanmar military ... ravines and dense forest, Washington Post journalists ...

It starts in Rakhine state in the west, runs across the north and then heads south into Kayah and Kayin states along the Thai border. The Tatmadaw has pulled back toward central Myanmar ...

Myanmar’s Wa State has halted mining of tin from August 1 and the suspension could be a prolonged one, according to the International Tin Association (ITA). Despite the mining stoppage ...