The Myanmar military chief, Min Aung Hlaing, further solidified the families as political and economic brokers after taking power in a 2021 coup. Evidence of the Kokang families’ deep ...

Rebels are digging in their heels despite heavy Chinese pressure to hand the northern Shan State capital back to the military ...

The MNDAA is the fighting arm of Myanmar’s Kokang ethnic minority. Min Aung Hlaing was cited as saying that since 2006 there have been 18 major drug cases in the Kokang area, with 140 people ...

While brutally repressing its own innocent citizens, the junta shows no interest in prosecuting and jailing foreign scammers ...

Among those arrested are a few related to some of the most powerful people in two special administrative zones close to China’s border with military-ruled Myanmar. The Kokang Self-Administered ...

The separatist Arakan Army, which seems to be in effective control of over 80 per cent of the province, now appears to be planning a major offensive to capture Sittwe (former Akyab), the ...

Chinese gig worker Xu Bochun says he was lured to Myanmar in 2023 by a job offer that turned out to be fake. He ended up being sold to a scam centre in Laukkai, the capital of the Kokang Self ...

Analysts say India may be trying to counter China, which brokered peace deals between the junta on one side, and the Ta'ang and Kokang on the other side in Myanmar's Shan State, by looking for ...