(Reuters) - 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 ...

A typical local house inside the KNU-controlled jungle. Credit: Helen Li Since gaining independence in 1948, Myanmar has faced persistent political crises and ethnic tensions. The most recent upheaval ...

AUSTRALIA is helping train security forces for Burma's military leadership which has violently turned on peaceful protesters, demonstrators claim. At least 200 monks were detained in pre-dawn raids on ...

We usually picture plush seats, chilled air-conditioning and endless food service in first-class train journeys. But a recent video from Myanmar shows a very different version of “first class.” An ...

Follow our National Geographic-The North Face team on a seven-week expedition in Myanmar (Burma) to attempt to determine the tallest peak in Southeast Asia. The adventure will take them overland by ...

In the steaming Burma jungle near the banks of the monsoon-swollen Irrawaddy River, Army buddies cut bamboo shoots for a cross to mark the grave of Frank Sandoval. There was no room on the bamboo to ...

SHWE PYI AYE CAMP, Burma -- Deep in a jungle where motors fear to tread, a bull elephant drives his tusks, trunk and forehead against two tons of felled teak, sending the log crashing down a steep ...