Myanmar hosts more than 100 ethnic groups with their own customary systems of land and forest management. Recent amendments to land law conflict with those systems, however, with critics warning that ...

Hundreds of protesting Myanmar tribespeople march up a hillside to a cavernous facility where a Chinese joint venture's giant milling machines stand ready to grind up the rocks of their ancestral ...

Ngon Pok remembers his father and grandfather returning triumphantly to his tribal village in Myanmar's far north with a human head -- and the agony of the tattoo he was given to celebrate their ...

Locals read through newspapers with fronts leading with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the International Court of Justice hearing outside a roadside shop Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, in Yangon, ...

The tribes have been mistreated by the military for so long it is difficult to generate a lot of trust and put an end to the armed resistance. Unlike most tribal militias in the north, the AA was ...

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. Buddhist families from Bangladesh are quietly crossing the ...

New Delhi: The tribes body of Nagaland has opposed the Central government's decision to fence the Indo-Myanmar border. Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government announced its decision to ...

IMPHAL, India (Reuters) - Indian militant groups that took refuge in Myanmar and fought in its civil war have been streaming back across the border to Manipur state this year, Indian security officers ...

CHIANG RAI, Thailand (AP) – The Kok River is a cocoa-colored expressway into the heart of hill tribe country. Rushing down from Myanmar and through Thailand's northern mountains to the city of Chiang ...

With Malaria and tuberculosis screening out front and sacrifices to jungle gods out back, health worker Htan Pi and her shaman mother are an unlikely double-act in their isolated Myanmar village.

Since a 2021 coup, Myanmar has been riven by civil war and shattered into a patchwork of loosely governed territories ripe for exploitation by unregulated miners ...