Myanmar border have joined some of the country’s most influential military cronies in giving financial support to the ...

The United Wa State Army (UWSA) has dismissed as groundless the allegation made by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra that it is the prime source of narcotics smuggled from Myanmar into Thailand ...

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

Since the start of the year, the United Wa State Army, the largest and most powerful of Myanmar's many ethnic armed groups, has been moving hundreds of its soldiers into new positions across the ...

LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The tin market's fortunes remain beholden to Myanmar's United Wa State Army, which controls one of the world's largest mines. The Wa State, the largest of the country's ...

Two months after a deadly earthquake ravaged much of central and northeastern Myanmar, recovery is just inching along, with huge numbers of people living in temporary shelters while facing the heavy r ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...