The pygmy hippopotamus, now 6 months old, is Thailand’s biggest celebrity, and the crowds keep flocking. What explains her charm?

To mark Saturday’s fourth anniversary of the military coup, The Irrawaddy breaks down the devastating impacts of junta rule on all aspects of life in Myanmar.

Sure, it’s a challenging trek, but once you’re standing on that summit marker – able to point to three different countries in one spin – you’ll realise that epic doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Misrepresented images continued to swirl on social media around the unrest in Myanmar's western Rakhine state that is riven ...

Thai and Myanmar authorities have found no trace of Chinese model Yang Zeqi, whose last known location, as sent to his friends on December 21, was in Mae Sot district in Tak province, on the ...

Upon arrival, he took a car from Suvarnabhumi Airport and then transferred to another car provided by the film crew in the Thailand-Myanmar border area. On Dec 21, Zeqi sent a message to his ...

Kazakhstan's national flag carrier Air Astana will operate flights from Almaty and Astana cities of the Central Asian nation ...

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(Beirut) – The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s government in December 2024 created new possibilities to ensure accountability for years of atrocity crimes and the opportunity to establish a new ...

(Brussels, January 16, 2025) – The Georgian government drove the country toward a human rights crisis in 2024, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2025. The government ...

BLACKROCK senior executive Mark Wiedman’s departure is just the latest sign that the hunt for chief executive officer Larry Fink’s replacement looks far different than it did a year earlier. Wiedman, ...