Poverty rates in Myanmar were on track to triple in the country's urban centers and push nearly half of the country's population below the poverty rate, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation engaged in a civil war ...

<p>BANGKOK &mdash; Political turmoil and disruptions following the coup in Myanmar could undo years of progress and double the number of its people living in poverty to nearly half the population, a ...

25 million persons in Myanmar, half of the country’s population, could be living in poverty next year following the devastating impacts of COVID-19 and the military coup d’état, according to a new ...

Almost half of Myanmar’s population could be forced into poverty by the end of the year as the country teeters on the brink of economic collapse caused by the double shock of a bloody military coup ...

Poverty rates in Myanmar were on track to triple in the country’s urban centers and push nearly half of the country’s population below the poverty rate, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ...