Yam sack farming is the growing of yam in sacks. The beauty of this method is that it allows even those with limited space to enjoy the benefits of homegrown yams. Growing yams in sacks is not ...

A dense bamboo forest in rebel-held territory surrounds the training ground in eastern Myanmar where more than 100 young people, mostly in their twenties, are undergoing rigorous military drills.

The Myanmar military, which has acknowledged ... They had just left to dig for sweet potatoes when the father of one of the boys heard a blast from his home. He rushed to help, but he was too ...

"Looking forward, Thailand is determined to do more to scale up humanitarian assistance to the people in Myanmar and is open ...

Myanmar is going through a period of profound and contested transition. The country has experienced widespread if sometimes uneven reforms, including the start of a peace process between the ...

Myanmar issues nine different types of passports — a Visit Passport (PV), Job Passport (PJ), Student Passport (PE), Seafarer Passport (PS), Business Passport (PB), Religious Passport (PR), Dependents ...

Restrictions on phone and internet service, and increased surveillance, are leaving large parts of Myanmar cut off from outside information, a recent report finds. The report by nonprofit Athan ...

Mrs. Eksiri Pintaruchi, Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs, presented Thailand’s financial contribution of 9,000,000 ...

They will have advice on whether the yam must be peeled before cooking and how to serve it. Small yams can be cooked in their skins, but larger ones should be peeled, washed and blanched for 10-20 ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A military court in Myanmar has given a life prison sentence to a local journalist and sentenced one of his ...

The BBC hears allegations of rape and torture by Myanmar's military in Chin State. Witnesses tell the BBC the Myanmar army tortured and killed dozens of men in a village in Rakhine State.

Marcus Yam is a roving Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent and staff photographer. Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he left a career in aerospace engineering to become a photographer.